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PUBLICATIONS
Book
Blood Ground: Colonialism, Missions and the Contest for Christianity in the Cape
Colony and Britain, 1799-1853. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University
Press, 2002. 2nd edition 2008.
 Wallace Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Society (2002)
 Joel Gregory Prize, Canadian Association of African Studies (2003/4)
 Short-listed for Herskovitz Prize, [American] Association of African Studies
(2003)
Articles, book chapters and contributions to collective scholarly resources
“Between Van Diemen’s Land and the Cape Colony”, in Anna Johnston and David Owen
(ed.), Friendly Mission: Companion Essays. Hobart, Australia: Quintus Publishing,
2008.
“Religion in the British Empire” in Sarah Stockwell (ed.), The British Empire: Themes
and Perspectives. Oxford: Blackwells, 2007.
“Southern Africa: 1500-1900”, in Bonnie G. Smith (ed.), The Oxford Encyclopaedia of
Women in World History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
“Indigenous peoples and imperial networks in the early nineteenth century: The politics
of knowledge”, in Philip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis (eds), Rediscovering the
British World. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2005
“Robert Moffat”; “Mary Moffat”; “James Read senior”, New Dictionary of National
Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
"The Sin of the Settler: The 1835-36 Select Committee on Aborigines and Debates Over
Virtue and Conquest in the Early Nineteenth-Century British White Settler Empire",
Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 4, no. 3, Winter 2003
"‘The fact so often disputed by the Black man’: Khoekhoe citizenship at the Cape in the
early to mid nineteenth century" Citizenship Studies, vol. 7, no. 4, December 2003, pp.
379-400.
“Word Made Flesh: Christianity, Modernity, and Cultural Colonialism in the Work of
Jean and John Comaroff”, American Historical Review, 108(2), April 2003, pp. 435-59.
"Domesticity and Dispossession: British ideologies of 'home' and the primitive at work in
the early nineteenth-century Cape", in Wendy Woodward, Patricia Hayes and Gary
Minkley (eds.), Deep Histories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa. Amsterdam:
Rodopi, 2002, pp 27-54.
Heading and transcription, Kaatje Nieuwveldt, “Testimony”, in M. J. Daymond, Dorothy
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Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford, and
Nobantu Rasebotsa (eds.), Women Writing Africa, vol. 1: The Southern Region. New
York: The Feminist Press, 2002, pp. 86-91.
"Idées de la nation, de l'identité communautaire et de l'exclusion dans l'Afrique du sud
britannique, pendant les années 1820s-1850". Alizés: Revue angliciste de la Réunion,
numéro spécial, "Le citoyen dans 'l'empire du milieu': Perspectives comparistes", March
2001, pp.293-315.
"Race, Warfare and Religion in Mid-nineteenth Century Southern Africa: The Khoikhoi
Rebellion Against the Cape Colony and its uses, 1850-58". in Journal of African Cultural
Studies 13(1), 2000, pp. 17-42.
"Whose gospel? Conflict in the London Missionary Society in the 1840s", in John de
Gruchy (ed) Sent from London: Essays on the London Missionary Society in southern
Africa. Cape Town: David Philip, 2000, pp. 132-155.
(with Robert Ross) "Combating Spiritual and Social Bondage: Early Missions in the
Cape Colony" in Richard Elphick and Rodney Davenport (eds), Christianity in South
Africa. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman and Berkeley: University of California at
Los Angeles Press, 1997, pp. 31-50.
"Early Khoisan Uses of Mission Christianity" in Henry Bredekamp and Robert Ross
(eds.), Missions in South African History. Johannesburg: University of the
Witswatersrand Press, 1995, pp. 66-95.
"Freedom at Issue: Vagrancy Legislation and the Meaning of Freedom in Britain and the
Cape Colony, 1799-1842", Slavery and Abolition, special issue on Unfree Labour in the
Development of the Atlantic World, vol.15, no.2, August 1994, pp. 114-150. Also
published in Nicholas Rogers and Paul E. Lovejoy (eds.), Unfree Labour in the
Development of the Atlantic World. London: Frank Cass, 1995.
Review article on Jonathan Neil Gerstner's The Thousand Generation Covenant: Dutch
Reformed Covenant Theology and Group Identity in Colonial South Africa, 1652-1814.
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion, vol.6, no.2, 1994, pp. 200-211.
"The Foundation of the Church Missionary Society, 1799: The Anglican Missionary
Impulse", in John Walsh, Stephen Taylor and Colin Haydon (eds.), The Church of
England circa 1689 to circa 1833 From Toleration to Tractarianism. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 247-264.
"Early Khoisan Uses of Mission Christianity", Kronos: Journal of Cape
History/Tydschrift vir Kaapslandse Gesiedenis, no.19, November 1992, pp. 3-27.
Expanded and revised version published in Ross and Bredekamp (eds.), listed above.
"Concerning Missionaries: The Case of Dr. Van der Kemp", Journal of Southern African
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Studies, 17(1), March 1991, pp. 153-164.
Working papers and web-based publications:
“Religion and Empire” (a scholarly essay with links to primary sources for university
students) in Adam Matthews Co, Empire On-Line (2006)
"The Eastern Cape and International Networks in the Early Nineteenth Century", Fort
Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, Working Paper series, WP 43, August
2003, University of Fort Hare, South Africa
"New Approaches in the historiography of the British Empire", in Comité internationale
des sciences historiques, Bulletin d'information 19. Paris, 1993, pp. 147-157.
"A Question of Identity: Evangelical Culture and Khoisan Politics in the Early
Nineteenth-Century Eastern Cape". The Societies of Southern Africa in the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries collected seminar papers, vol. 18, no.44, Institute for
Commonwealth Studies, University of London, 1992, pp. 14-30.
Work in progress under contract
Gwyn Campbell and Elizabeth Elbourne (eds.), Sex, Power and Slavery: The Dynamics
of Carnal Relations under Enslavement 3 vols (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press,
2009 and 2010)
“Christian soldiers: Conversion and the military”, in David Lindenfeld and Miles
Richardson (eds.), Beyond Syncretism and Conversion (Oxford and New York: Berghahn
Books, 2009)