CURRICULUM VITAE
James Oliver Gump
OFFICE ADDRESS
Dean’s Office
College of Arts and Sciences
HOME ADDRESS
10406 Viacha Drive
San Diego, CA 92124
University of San Diego Email: gump@sandiego.edu
San Diego, CA 92110
Ph. 6l9 260-4545
Present Position: Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of History,
University of San Diego
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Born: November 12, 1951, Nebraska City, Nebraska
Married to Lee Ann Otto (PhD, University of British Columbia; Professor of Political Science,
University of San Diego)
One son (Scott, aged 18)
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History
M.A. History
B.A. History
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (l980)
University of Auckland, New Zealand (l976)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (l974)
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
1990-present l985-1990 l98l-1985 l980-1981
Professor, Department of History,
University of San Diego
Associate Professor, Department of History,
University of San Diego
Assistant Professor, Department of History,
University of San Diego
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
History, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

University Professorship
Davies Award for Faculty
Achievement
Phi Beta Kappa
Boucher Award [Scholar/Athlete
(Gymnastics)]
HONORS
University of San Diego (1995-1996)
University of San Diego (1992)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (l974)
University of Nebraska-Lincoln (l974)
FELLOWSHIPS
NEH Summer Stipend South Africa and South Dakota (2001)
Archibald Hanna, Jr. Fellowship Beinecke Library, Yale University (2001) in American History
Frederick W. Beinecke Fellowship Beinecke Library, Yale University (1995) in Western Americana
American Philosophical Society National Library, Wellington, N.Z. (1994)
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship University of Texas-Austin (1991)
Newberry Library Fellowship Newberry Library, Chicago (l989)
NEH Summer Institute Fellowship Newberry Library, Chicago (l986)
NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship Yale University (l984)
Fulbright-Hays Fellowship University of Auckland (l975-76)
COURSES TAUGHT
Western Civilization surveys
World Civilization surveys
History of Africa
History of Modern Africa
History of South Africa
The British Imperial Experience
Early Modern England
Modern European History
Imperial Russia
Comparative Revolutions
Comparative Frontiers
The Holocaust
War and Peace in the Modern World
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Associate Dean, USD College of Arts and Sciences, 1997-2000, 2004-present
Chair, USD Department of History, l988-1997, 2001-2003
President, Phi of California Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 2003-present
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Chair, Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association Nominations Committee, 2001-
2003
Chair, USD Phi Beta Kappa Committee, 1997-present
Member, Program Committee of the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association,
1999-2000
External Evaluator, University of St. Thomas History Department, 2003
External Evaluator, La Sierra University History and Political Science Department, 1996
Chair, USD Committee on Appointment, Reappointment, Rank and Tenure, 1993-1994
Director, USD Honors Program, l986-1992
Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, 1992
Chair, USD Library Committee, l988-1989
Member, USD Dean Search Committee, l988
Member, Board of Directors, World Affairs Council of San Diego, l987-1991, 1994-1996
Secretary, USD Academic Assembly, l986-l987
Secretary, USD Senate, l983-l985
Faculty Advisor, Pi-Omega chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (International History Honor Society),
1982-1988.
Member, Academic Affairs Committee, Calendar Committee, Faculty Research Grants
Committee, Graduate Council, Graduate Studies Committee, Honors Program
Committee, Internationalization of the Curriculum Committee, Undergraduate
Curriculum Committee, Phi Beta Kappa Committee, Calendar Committee, WASC
Steering Committee
PUBLICATIONS
Books
In Progress: Toward Truth and Reconciliation: The Role of South Africa’s Goldstone
Commission, 1991-1994.
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994). History Book Club selection.
The Formation of the Zulu Kingdom in South Africa, 1750-1840 (San Francisco: Mellen
Research University Press, 1990).
Book Chapters
“Civil Wars in South Dakota and South Africa: The Role of the ‘Third Force’,” in Plains
Tapestries: A Great Plains Reader , ed. John Wunder (Lubbock: Texas Tech
University Press, 2006).
“The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux,” in America Compared: American History in
International Perspective , v. 2, ed. Carl J. Guarneri (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997),
56-69.
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Curriculum Guides
With William G. Bowles, South African Dilemmas in the Twentieth Century: A Unit of Study for Grades 9-12 (University of California, Los Angeles: National Center for History in the Schools, 1998).
Articles
“Civil Wars in South Dakota and South Africa: The Role of the ‘Third Force’,” Western
Historical Quarterly (2003): 427-44.
“War Chiefs,” in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains , ed. David J. Wishart (Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
“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.
"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.
"Ecological Change and Pre-Shakan State Formation," African Economic History (l989):
57-71.
"Origins of the Zulu Kingdom," The Historian (l988): 52l-34.
"The Subjugation of the Zulus and Sioux: A Comparative Study," Western Historical
Quarterly (l988): 21-36.
"Lakota History: A Critical Bibliography," D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the
American Indian, Newberry Library, Bibliographies forTeachers (l987).
"South Africa: Ripe for Revolution," University of San Diego "U" Magazine (l986).
"Poverty and Migration in the Interwar Years: The Underdevelopment of Maori Society, l920-
40," Historicus 2 (l980): 45-65.
"Preparing Graduate Students for Teaching," Teaching at UN-L (l978).
"The Study of Nationalism in Australia and New Zealand," Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism 2 (l975): 224-3l
"Annotated Bibliography on Australia and New Zealand," Canadian Review of Studies in
Nationalism 1 (l974): l2l-26.
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Editorials
"Buthelezi's Change of Heart," San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 April 1994.
"At the Center of the Storm--Zulu Nationalism Remains a Force to Be Reckoned With,"
Boston Sunday Globe , 17 April 1994, A21-24.
"Administration Deserves Little Credit for South African Reform," San Diego Union , 4
September 1985, B-7.
Computer Software
With Barton Thurber, Gary Macy, Jack Pope, and Elizabeth Cobbs, Warsaw, 1939 (San Diego:
Chariot Software, 1990).
Film Reviews
“Mobutu: King of Zaire,” American Historical Review (2001)
“Cry, the Beloved Country,” American Historical Review (1996).
"Once Were Warriors," American Historical Review (1995).
Book and Manuscript Reviews
Over eighty reviews for Cambridge University Press, Choice , International Journal of African
Historical Studies , Journal of American History , Journal of Imperial and
Commonwealth History , History Teacher , Canadian Journal of African Studies ,
African Studies Review , Albion , Journal of San Diego History, Journal of World
History, Pacific Historical Review , Great Plains Quarterly, San Diego Union-Tribune.
CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Stanford University, Palo Alto,
California, August 2006, “Toward Truth and Reconciliation: The Role of South
Africa’s Goldstone Commission, 1991-1994.”
Western History Association, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 2002, Chair of “Racial
Borders in Comparative Contexts.”
Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Tucson, Arizona, August 2002, “Civil
Wars in South Dakota and South Africa: The Role of the “Third Force.”
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Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Park City, Utah, August 2000, Chair and discussant of “The Culture of Indian Resistance: Great Plains and Pacific
Northwest.”
Western Social Science Association, San Diego, April 2000, Chair and discussant of “African
Americans, Native Americans, and Germans.”
National Center for History in the Schools, Huntington Library, April 2000, “European
Frontiers and Cultural Encounters: South Africa, New Zealand, and the American
West” (Plenary Session).
American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2000, Chair of “At the Margins of Empire:
British Missionaries and the Colonial Encounter.”
Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Maui, Hawaii, August 1999, “Ethnic
Mobilization and Civil Conflict and Civil Violence in Pine Ridge and KwaZulu/Natal.”
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators Annual Conference, New Orleans,
March 1999, “The Student Resource Center: An Integrated Approach to Retention;”
“Integrating Academics and Student Affairs in Orientation” (with Thomas Cosgrove and Merrick Marino).
Joint Neale and Commonwealth Conference, University College London, February 1997, “The
Imperialism of Cultural Assimilation: Sir George Grey’s Encounter with the Maori and the Xhosa, 1845-1868.”
American Historical Association, New York City, January 1997, “The Expansion of England:
Sir George Grey, the Maori, and the Xhosa, 1845-1868.”
Redoing Revolution Colloquium, San Diego State University, March 1996, "The Zulu
Mfecane: A Revolution in South Africa."
Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Maui, Hawaii, August 1995, "Beyond the Ghost Dance: Xhosa, Maori, and Sioux Responses to Assimilation."
Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 1994, Discussant for
"Adventures in Comparative History, Including a Discussion of Peter Coleman's
Progressivism and the World of Reform ."
Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1993, "Cycles of
Conquest and Revitalization among the Xhosa, Maori, and Sioux."
American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 1992. Seminar on South
African Politics. Invited participant.
The "Mfecane" Aftermath: Towards a New Paradigm, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa, September, 1991, "Origins of the Mfecane: An
Ecological Perspective."
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Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, Kona, Hawaii, August 1991, "Patterns of Imperial Overrule." "
Faculty Seminar on British Studies, University of Texas at Austin, August 1991, "The Zulu and Sioux: The British and American Comparative Experience with the 'Noble
Savage'."
American Historical Association, San Francisco, California, December, l989, "The Political
Mythology of Isandhlwana and the Little Bighorn."
Western British Studies Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, October, l988, "Popular
Responses to the War in Zululand, l879."
First Annual World History Symposium: The World on the Eve of Columbus's First Voyage,
San Diego, California, April, l988. Respondent to Joseph Miller's "Africa in l491."
Victoria's Jubilees, l887 and l897: A Centennial Reconsideration, Lawrence, Kansas, March, l987, "The Anglo-Zulu War of l879 in Comparative Perspective."
Newberry Library Conference on Indian History, Los Angeles, California, October, l986.
Invited participant.
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, San Luis Obispo, California, March, l985,
"Imperialism and Closing Frontiers: the Zulu and Sioux."
African Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, October, l984. Chair of "The Regional
Political Economy of Southern Africa."
Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association, San Diego, California, August, l983,
"The Mfecane Reappraised: Zulu and Ndebele State Formation, c. l8l6-40."
Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April, l983, "Cultural
Revitalization and the Zulu State, c. l750-l828."
Western Association of Africanists, Colorado Springs, Colorado, March, l98l, "The
Destruction of the Hlubi."
Western Association of Africanists, Colorado Springs, Colorado, February, l980, "Origins of the Mfecane."
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS
Various presentations on the history and politics of South Africa and the history of the Lakota
Sioux to the World Affairs Council of San Diego (including the North County chapter), the World Affairs Council of Palm Springs, USD's Invisible University and University of the Third Age, the Peace and Justice Commission, Great Decisions, Bonita Kiwanis
Club, San Diego State University's EGO program, and various elementary schools in
San Diego.
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REFERENCES
Professor Howard Lamar, Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
06520 (203 432-1366)
Professor Peter Maslowski, Department of History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
68588 (402 472-3246)
Professor Iris H.W. Engstrand, Department of History, University of San Diego, San Diego,
California 92110 (619 260-4038)
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