Githuku, Nicholas
Associate Professor
History, Philosophy and Anthropology
Phone: 718-262-2579
Office Location: AC-3E18
NGithuku@york.cuny.edu
http://africanperspectives.co.ke/
Education
Degree | Institution | Field | Dates |
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PhD | West Virginia University | African History/East and West African & British National and Imperial History | August 2009-June 2014 |
non-degree | Mid-Level Professional Development Studies, Rotary International Certificate in Development and Peace & Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok –Thailand | Conflict and Peace Studies | June-September 2008 |
MA | University of Nairobi | Armed Conflict and Peace Studies (History) | 2002-2005 |
BA | First Class Honors, University of Nairobi | Political Science & Public Administration and History | 1997-2001 |
Areas of Expertise
- Cross-cutting themes in the making and evolution of the postcolonial African state: race, ethnicity [contemporary politics & political economy], gender & women history, class, labor, social movements
The inner workings of power and authority
Social & environmental justice, social movements, state (il)legitimacy and the rule of law
Region of specialty: East Africa (and contemporary Kenyan politics in particular)
Kenya
Other regions: Sub-Saharan Africa & Central and Eastern Europe [with specific interest in the origin and development of states and the state-system or state-formation); the relationship between the state and capitalism; and military history and memorialization]
Political and social theory
Books in Field Of Expertise
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Nicholas K. Githuku. A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 15 October 2021. 408.
Nicholas K. Githuku. Book, Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics in Postcolonial Kenya. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, October 15, 2015. 574.
Chapters in Field Of Expertise
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Nicholas K. Githuku. "The Unfolding of Britain and Kenya’s Complex Tango: An Uneasy Return to a Critical Past and its Implications." . Dedan Kimathi on Trial: Colonial Justice and Popular Memory in Kenya’s Mau Mau Rebellion November 2017: 17.
Nicholas Githuku. "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) : 25.
Nicholas Githuku & Robert Maxon. "“The Building Bridges Initiative Déjà vu: 'A Whitewash Process Taking Us Forward by Taking Us Backwards,'"." . A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics : 408.
Nicholas Githuku. ""The Future of History: "Transtemporal, Transnational Across Geographical Borders."." . A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics : 408.
Nicholas Githuku. ""House of Mlungula— 'Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm:' Of Computer 'Glitches,' Moving Human Fingers and Illicit Financial Flows."." . A Tapestry of African Histories: With Longer Times and Wider Geopolitics : 408.
Refereed Proceedings in Field Of Expertise
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Non Refereed Proceedings in Field Of Expertise
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Felix Kumah-Abiwu and N. Kariūki wa Gīthuku Read more at: https://www.theelephant.info/author/kumah-abiwu-githuku/ The Elephant - Explaining Society to the People. "VP Kamala Harris’ Africa Visit: Rethinking US-Africa Relations." The Elephant. April 13, 2023: .
Lotte Hughes & Kariuki Githuku. "Mama Ngina and Field Marshall Muthoni's Locs: Sanitizing the Kenyattas." The Elephant. April 11, 2022: .
N. Kariuki Githuku. "Remembering Dedan Kimathi." The Elephant. February 20, 2022: .
Nicholas Githuku & Robert Maxon. "BBI: Political Tool or State-Building Opportunity?." The Elephant. August 13, 2021: .
Nicholas Githuku & Robert Maxon. "Déjà Vu: The BBI Moment in Historical Perspective." The Elephant. July 16, 2021: .
Nicholas Githuku & Robert Maxon. "BBI: Uhuru Should Heed the Lessons of History." The Elephant. July 2, 2021 Read more at: https://www.theelephant.info/features/2021/07/02/bbi-uhuru-should-heed-the-lessons-of-history/ The Elephant - Speaking truth to power.: .
Nicholas Githuku. "The Anatomy of Kenya Inc: How the Colonial State Sustains and Re-Creates Itself." The Elephant. February 26, 2021 Read more at: https://www.theelephant.info/long-reads/2021/02/26/the-anatomy-of-kenya-inc-how-the-colonial-state-sustains-and-re-creates-itself/ The Elephant - Speaking truth to power.: .
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Presented Papers, Lectures, and Exhibitions and Performances
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" Journalism During War: Navigating a Blackout and Censorship During the Tigray Conflict " June 25, 2022: Livestreamed Omna Tigray Social Media Event on YouTube & Facebook.
" Give Your Hands to the Struggle! Contemporary Resonances, " Wednesday 19 May 2021: A book discussion group initiative with a base membership of faculty of the SUNY UB department of history, wider faculty and staff, other SUNY institutions and beyond.
" The Cost of National of Reconciliation: Black Freedom and Sacrifice in the Era of Emancipation, " Wednesday 5 May 2021: A book discussion group initiative with a base membership of faculty of the SUNY UB department of history, wider faculty and staff, other SUNY institutions and beyond.
" A More Perfect Capitalist Union: Capitalism, Slavery, and Early National Unity, " Wednesday 24 April 2021: A book discussion group initiative with a base membership of faculty of the SUNY UB department of history, wider faculty and staff, other SUNY institutions and beyond.
" Settler Colonialism is Not an Event, it is a Structure: Is it Possible to Reform and Reconfigure a System Built on White Supremacy? " Wednesday 24 March 2021: A book discussion group initiative with a base membership of faculty of the SUNY UB department of history, wider faculty and staff, other SUNY institutions and beyond.
" House of Mlungula—'Norms in the Margins and Margins of the Norm’: Of Computer ‘Glitches,’ Moving Human Fingers and Illicit Financial Flows " Friday 26 February 2021: A talk given at the department of history, SUNY UB via Zoom.
" ‘The Double Standard of the American Riot’: Summer 2020 Racial Justice Protests & the Washington, DC Infamy of 6th January 2021 in Historical Perspective " Wednesday 17 February 2021: A book discussion group initiative with a base membership of faculty of the SUNY UB department of history, wider faculty and staff, other SUNY institutions and beyond.
" Panelist, “Mabadiliko ya Maisha Kipindi cha Ugonjwa wa Korona,” Baraza la Kiswahili la Berlin (“Berlin Kiswahili Seminar”) series of Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), a German research institute in Berlin, " Monday 6 July 2020: “Berlin Kiswahili Seminar," Series of Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), a German Research Institute in Berlin.
" The Indivisible Global African Experience: A Reflection on an Inter-Permeating Intellectual History " February 25 2019: Guest Lecture at the Center for African Studies, Harvard University.
" The Power/Knowledge Nexus and Resistance: Discursive Consciousness and Technologies of the Self—the Case of Jomo Kenyatta, " September 11th to 13th 2018: at the ASA-UK Conference, University of Birmingham, England.
" Redeeming Our Tainted Soul: A Call to Armed Moral Reason, Moral Rearmament and Critical Conscience, " 1st to 4th August 2018: at the 8th African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR), Lusaka—Zambia.
" The Power/Knowledge Nexus and Resistance: Discursive Consciousness and Technologies of the Self—the Case of Jomo Kenyatta, " 1st to 5th July 2018: the 8th Toying Falola Conference (TOFAC) at the United States International University (USIU), Nairobi—Kenya.
" Unfolding of Britain’s and Kenya’s Complex Tango: An Uneasy Revisit to a Critical Past and its Implications " December 1st to 3rd, 2016: at the 59th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association.
" The Long Kenyan Century: A People’s Elusive Quest for the ‘Good Life’" " 9th & 10th September 2016: The 9th Kenya Scholars and Studies Association Conference (KESSA).
" Formal Book Launch of Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya " 23rd June 2016: Goethe Institut, Nairobi-Kenya.
" Mau Mau Crucible of War: " 22nd October 2014: Professional Presentation at the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University.
" White Man’s Land: Colonial Foundations and Legal Architecture of the Kenyan State and its Discontents " 21st-24th November 2013: The 56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Baltimore, MD.
" White Man’s Land: Colonial Foundations and Legal Architecture of the Kenyan State and its Discontents " 8th September 2012: Presented at the African Studies Association (ASA-United Kingdom).
" Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics in Postcolonial Kenya " 5th-6th September 2013: at the 5th Kenya Scholars & Studies Association Conference, Bowling Green State University.
" Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics in Postcolonial Kenya " 6th August 2013: Africa Research Forum, Department of History, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
" Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics in Postcolonial Kenya " 29th November to 1st December 2012: at the 55th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA), Philadelphia, PA.
" Kenyan ‘Procreatocracy?’ Ethnic politics and Tyranny of Numbers " 12th October 2013: the “African History Conference –Beyond the boundaries: Toyin Falola and African Historiography,” University of North Carolina Wilmington.
" Mchezo wa Siasa: A Critical Overview of the Politics of Soccer and Soccer in Kenyan Politics " 7th & 8th September, 2012: Kenya Scholars and Studies Association Conference (KESSA).
" Forgiving is the Easy Part: Settling Historical Injustices in Post-Conflict Contexts –The Case of Kenya and South Africa " 4th-6th March 2010: at the Public Forgiveness in Post-Conflict contexts Conference, Radboud University Nijmegen Center for Ethics, Nijmegen –The Netherlands.
" The application of Media for Peace Education: University Leadership " 28th -30th October, 2009: The 2nd UNESCO Global Forum on the Power of Peace, held in Bangkok, Thailand.
" The DNA of (Good) Leadership: Can we Decipher It? " 24th-28th June 2007: at the Human Rights and Creative Leadership Conference, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
" Crime and Punishment in Kenya " November 2005: Presented at the 3rd Strathmore University Conference on Politics and the Common Good.
" Capitalizing on Cultural Sensitivities: A Cultural Approach to Conflict Prevention, Resolution and Harmonious Co-existence " 22nd –26th June 2003: Presented at the SYLFF Conference on Multicuturalism: Capitalizing on the Wealth of Diversity, at the American University in Cairo, Cairo-Egypt.
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Professional Honors, Prizes, Fellowships
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SUNY University @ Buffalo, Center for Diversity Innovation Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2020-21: 31 August to 20 May 2021.
The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship: 17th May to 15th August 2018.
Faculty Fellowship Publication Program, CUNY-wide: Spring 2018.
The Robert and Wynona Wilkins Scholarship, WVU: 2013/2014.
The British Institute in Eastern Africa Research Grant, December: December 2012-February 2013.
The Rebecca D. and Henry E. Thornburg Doctoral Award, WVU: 2012-2013.
Department of History, Dissertation Fellowship Award: 2012.
WVU Chancellor’s Scholars Fellowship: 2011.
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Student Research Fund, West Virginia University: Summer 2010.
Rotary International World Peace Fellow: 2008.
Joint Initiatives Project Fund, The Tokyo Foundation/The Nippon Foundation: 2006.
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund (SYLFF): 2002-2005.
: Spring 2018.
Grants-In-Aid
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The Full Cycle 48 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Grant, Jomo Kenyatta, a Man for All Seasons: Radical Rebel, Arbiter, Detainee and Conservative Statesman?. Spring/Summer 2017: $6,000.
WVU, Department of History, Dissertation Fellowship Award, Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya. Summer 2013: $3,500.00.
British Institute in Eastern Africa Research Grant (BIEA), Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya. December 2012-February 2013: $2,600.00.
WVU, Department of History, Dissertation Fellowship Award, Mau Mau Crucible of War: Statehood, National Identity and Politics of Postcolonial Kenya. Summer 2012: $6,000.00.
Joint Initiatives Project Fund, The Tokyo Foundation/The Nippon Foundation, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN PROTECTED AREAS AND ITS IMPACT ON HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: A Comparative Sustainable Development Research [The Mau Forest Complex (Kenya) and The Serra Da Estrela Natural Park (Portugal)]”. 2005/6: $6,000.00.
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Other Professional Activities and Public Service
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Member of the African Association for the Study of Religions (AASR): Summer 2018-Present.
Blind peer-reviewer, South African Journal of Philosophy: Spring 2017-Present.
Blind Peer-reviewer, KESSA Review Journal: Fall 2017-Present.
Member of the African Studies Association: 2012-Present.
Member of the African Studies Association (UK): 2012-Present.
Member of the Kenya Scholars & Studies Association (KESSA): 2009-Present.
Member of the British Institute in Eastern Africa: 2012-Present.
Rotary International World Peace Fellow: 2008-Present.
Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellow: 2002-Present.
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