Professor Emeritus, History
- PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, History
- MA, University of Auckland, , History
- BA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, History
James O. Gump is Professor Emeritus of History and the author of The Formation of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa (Mellen, 1990), The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux (Nebraska, 2 editions, 1984 and 2016), and Maestro: André Tchelistcheff and the Rebirth of Napa Valley (Nebraska, 2021). During his thirty-eight-year career at USD he taught courses in African and South African History, British Imperialism, Modern Europe, The Holocaust, and War and Peace in the Modern World, served as department chair, associate dean, and Honors Program director, and was the recipient of the Davies Award for Faculty Achievement (1992), the Mortar Board Faculty Achievement Award (2005-06), and the Honors Program Professor of the Year award (2019).