September 3, 2019,
Office of the President
Academic Core Building 2H02

Dear President Berenecea J. Eanes,

Re: Evaluation and Reappointment for the 2019/2020 Academic 

Please allow me to warmly welcome you to York College. 
I wish to submit this letter for reappointment as assistant professor of African history, a position that I hold for the sixth year running. For this purpose, I would like to highlight and report on some of the projects and goals that I had set last fall (2018). 
I have continued college service taking on the new responsibility of serving on the York College Curriculum Committee in addition to being on the College Association Committee. My second two-year term on Academic Policy and Standards Committee ran out at the end of spring semester.
This augments professional service in the last one year including acting as a blind-peer reviewer for Praxis: A Journal of Gender and Cultural Critique; and providing leadership for the Professor Robert M. Maxon Lifetime Achievement and Academic Legacy African Conference which was held in March 2019. Unfortunately, due to the pressure and demands for the March conference, I was unable to continue as a member of the Local Organizing Committee at York for the New York African Studies Association Conference (NYASA) which, Dr. George White, the department chair and his team, however, hosted at York College in April with great success. In spring, I was also able to invite at least one guest speaker for our ongoing Martin Atangana African & African American History Public Lecture Series (funding for which continues to be a challenge). A fundraising campaign still remains on the table, something that I was able to have a formal discussion about at the beginning of spring with Mr. Shereitte C. Stokes III, the
Vice President for Institutional Advancement.
The guest lecture at the Center for African Studies, Harvard University, February 25 2019, entitled, “The Indivisible Global African Experience: A Reflection on an Inter-Permeating Intellectual History,” went well. I was also able to write a chapter contribution entitled, “From Moral Ethnicity to Moral Anarchy: The Colonial Ideology of Order and Political Disorder in Postcolonial Kenya,” in The Omnipresent Past. Historical Anthropology of Africa and African Diaspora (ed.) Dmitri Bondarenko and Marina L. Butovskaya (Moscow: LRC Publishing House, July 2019). I am also glad to report that one of the papers workshopped with my CUNY peers at the Faculty Fellowship Publication Program in spring 2018, “‘Collaborators’ or ‘Resistors,’ ‘Loyalists’ versus ‘Rebels’: Problematizing Colonial Binary Nomenclatures through the Prism of Dedan Kimathi’s Career,” shall soon be published in the now late but forthcoming issue of Groundings: A Publication of the Walter Rodney Foundation (the paper has already gone through the peer review process, been revised and accepted).
As student evaluations attest, my students and I continue to thoroughly enjoy our meetings. They have showed a lot of interest and enthusiasm for a possible summer study abroad program which remains a work in progress. My three legs of the stool (service, teaching and research/writing), therefore, is in good form and hope to keep it the same as I have in the past. I am, therefore, quite positive that you will have no hesitation to reappoint me to continue this amazing journey and career growth here at York College for the 2019/2020 academic year. I am, as ever, extremely delighted to be at York and desire and hope to make myself an indispensable part of this community of learners. Thank you in no small measure for the opportunity to be a part of this wonderful educational enterprise and esteemed institution. Thank you also for your time and kind consideration of this request for reappointment to continue to be a part of York College’s success.

Sincerely Yours,

Nicholas K. Githuku.