Dr. James Gump Professor PhD, University of Nebraska, 1980 Research specialties:   African history, comparative frontiers Teaching specialties:   Africa, Modern Europe, World History

Office: Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice (KIPJ) 267
Hours, Fall 2008: Tues 8:00-10:30, Thurs 8:00-10:30
Phone:   (619) 260-7787
Email:   gump@sandiego.edu
Webpage:   http://www.sandiego.edu/~gump

Selected publications:

• Third Force Strategy: Counterinsurgency Campaigns in South Dakota and South Africa, 1973-1994 (Paradigm Publishers, forthcoming)
• "Unmasking the Third Force: The Role of Investigative Commissions in the U.S. and South Africa, 1973-1994" (work in progress)
• "Civil Wars in South Dakota and South Africa: The Role of the 'Third Force'," in Plains Tapestries: A Great Plains Reader, ed. John Wunder (Texas Tech University Press, 2006) and Western Historical Quarterly (2003): 427-44
• "The Imperialism of Cultural Assimilation: Sir George Grey's Encounter with the Maori and the Xhosa, 1845-1868," Journal of World History (1998): 89-106
• "The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux," in America Compared: American History in International Perspective, vol. 2, ed. Carl J. Guarneri (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) and Western Historical Quarterly (1988): 21-36
• "A Spirit of Resistance:  Xhosa, Maori, and Sioux Responses to Western Dominance, 1840- 1920," Pacific Historical Review (1997): 21-52.  Winner of the American Historical Association-Pacific Coast Branch s Koontz Award for outstanding PHR article of 1997
• The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulus and The Sioux (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994). A History Book Club Selection.
• "Ecological Change and Pre-Shakan State Formation," African Economic History (1989): 57-71
• "Origins of the Zulu Kingdom," The Historian (1988): 521-34
• "Poverty and Migration in the Interwar Years: The Underdevelopment of Maori Society, 1920-40," Historicus 2 (1980): 45-65