Mobilizing the Community To Tell Their Story with Eva Semien Baham, Ph.D.

            Dr. Eva Semien Baham is as an assistant professor of history at Dillard University, in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Prior to coming to Dillard, she taught for twenty-one years at Southern University, Baton Rouge. Her specialties include American, African-American and Intellectual history.

            She received her undergraduate degree in journalism from Southern University in Baton Rouge and her Masters of Arts and her Ph.D. in American Studies/History from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

 Currently, her work involves genealogy, biographical studies and the history of African Americans in Louisiana. Her most recent project is the book, African Americans in Covington.  (Published June, 2015.)  This follows a two-year study and presentation of the history of African-Americans in Covington in observance of the city’s Bi-Centennial in 2013.

            She is the founder of the research organization, université sans murs, l.l.c., translated as University Without Walls, under which she conducts genealogical research projects.  At present, those projects involves the Baham, Robert, Kelly, Simien and White families of south Louisiana.  She has also assisted several families in seeking out searching for avenues to “fill in” their family trees.