February 08, 2016
From: Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, Ph.D.
Professor and Head
Department of Africology and African American Studies
Eastern Michigan University
620 Pray Harrold
Ypsilanti, Michigan 48197
Email: vokafor@emich.edu
Web location: http://www.emich.edu/aas/faculty/okafor.php
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/victor.okafor.9889
Tel: 734-487-3460
Re: An Invitation to submit a chapter to a proposed book on “A Critical
Appraisal of Barack Obama’s Presidency”
Since 2009, Eastern Michigan University has been running an annual series
of expert and non-partisan panel evaluations of Barack Obama’s presidency.
The final edition of this series will be held in February, 2017. And, we intend
to launch an edited book on “A Critical Appraisal of Barack Obama’s
Presidency” during that final edition of the expert panel series.
Given your expertise, I am hereby extending an invitation to you to develop
and submit a chapter to the proposed Critical Appraisal of Barack
Obama’s Presidency. This project is envisaged as a collection of critical,
in-depth and balanced analyses of Barack Obama’s two-term presidency.
Intended to serve as an academic text, this proposed book (through its
assemblage of a set of incisive chapters using an assortment of normative,
multidisciplinary, qualitative and quantitative epistemological approaches) is
designed to tackle a variety of questions pertaining to how, during his 8-year
tenure, President Obama discharged his duties as the chief executive officer
of what is easily the most complex political bureaucracy in human history
against the backdrop of serving as the head of the executive branch of a
governmental system that is based on three separate-but-equal branches,
namely the presidency (that is, the executive branch), the legislature and
the judiciary.
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Notify me about your chosen/preferred topic
Thus, given your scholarly record, I invite you to submit a chapter to this
proposed book on the basis of any of the nineteen themes listed below. For
now, please respond to notify me of your acceptance of this invitation, along
with the name of the chapter that you will be submitting.
Themes for proposed book
1. The overall impact of President Barack Obama’s presidency
2. National economic trends under Obama’s presidency
3. President Obama’s handling of national security challenges
4. Health care reform & Obama’s presidency
5. National educational reforms & Obama’s presidency
6. The impact of President Obama’s leadership’s on the political
ideological direction of US national politics
7. Obama’s presidency & the politics of race in America
8. Obama’s presidency & the politics of gender in America
9. Obama’s presidency & the politics of religion in America
10. Relations between the Executive branch and the US Congress
during Obama’s presidency
11. The impact of Obama’s presidency on the shape of the US
Supreme Court
12. The orientation of US foreign policy towards Africa under
Obama’s presidency
13. The orientation of US foreign policy towards the Middle East
under Obama’s presidency
14. The orientation of US foreign policy towards China under
Obama’s presidency
15. The orientation of US foreign policy towards Russia under
Obama’s presidency
16. US free trade policies & Obama’s presidency
17. US climate change policies under Obama’s presidency
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18. The impact of Obama’s presidency on the external world’s
perception of the United States
19. Did Obama’s presidency bring about a socio-political
transformation of the United States?
Specifications for chapter submission
A chapter submission is expected to consist of a minimum of double-spaced
21 pages of text, exclusive of the bibliography. The Chicago Manual of Style
is a required documentation style for each chapter. Please, submit your
essay as a Microsoft-word file attachment.
Due Date
You have until May 06, 2016 or preferably sooner to submit your completed
chapter, along with an abbreviated curriculum vitae, to vokafor@emich.edu
as an email attachment. This deadline is critical to my goal of getting this
book out and ready for launching at the February, 2017 final edition of our
annual series of expert and non-partisan evaluation of Barack Obama’s
presidency.
Feedback
Following a blind review, the editor of the proposed book publication, Dr.
Victor O. Okafor will notify you as to whether your chapter is accepted or not
accepted for publication.