David M. Gordon

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Assistant Professor of History
Affiliation	Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Email	dgordon@bowdoin.edu
Mailing Address	Bowdoin College 9900 College Station Brunswick, Maine 04011 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 207-798-4298
Websites	http://www.bowdoin.edu/faculty/d/dgordon/index.shtml
Countries of Specialization	Congo (Democratic Republic) ; Zambia.
Research Interests	Research focus includes environment, politics, and religion in south central African history.
Teaching Interests	Teach courses on Sub-Saharan African history, from pre-colonial period to the present-day, with a focus on central and southern Africa.
Publications	Nachituti's Gift: Economy, Society, and Environment in Central Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. "The Abolition of the Slave Trade and the Transformation of Central African Interior." William and Mary Quarterly. "Special Edition on Global Consequences of 1807 Abolition." Forthcoming. (July, 2009) "Rebellion or Massacre: The UNIP-Lumpa Conflict Revisited." In Zambia: Independence and After. Edited by Jan-Bart Gewald, Giacomo Macola, and Marja Hinfelaar. In Press with E.J. Brill Press. "From Sacred Ownership to Colonial Commons: Water Tenure Systems in Central Africa." In A History of Water: The World of Water. Volume III. Edited by Terje Tvedt. I.B. Tauris, 2006, 18-37. "History on the Luapula Retold: Landscape, Memory, and Identity in the Kazembe Kingdom," Journal of African history 47, 1 (2006), 21-42. "Growth without Capital: A Renascent Fishery in Zambia and Katanga, 1960s to Recent Times," Journal of southern African studies 31,3 (2005), 477-495. "The Cultural Politics of a Traditional Ceremony: Mutomboko and the Performance of History on the Luapula," Comparative studies in society and history 46, 1 (2004), 63-83. "Rites of Rebellion: Recent Anthropology from Zambia." African Studies 62,1 (2003), 125-139. "Owners of the Land and Lunda Lords: Colonial Chiefs in the Borderlands of Northern Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo," International journal of African historical studies 34, 2 (2001), 315-337.
Keywords	Central African history ; Zambia ; environmental history, politics, religion.