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James M. Burns
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara, 1998
Associate Professor
120 Hardin Hall
(864) 656-5359
burnsj@clemson.edu
www.clemson.edu/~burnsj

Professor Burns, the 2005 winner of the Gentry Award for outstanding teaching, is the faculty adviser for Phi Alpha Theta, the History honor society. He has taught both at Colby College in Maine and at Clemson, where he has been since 1999. He is a specialist in African history, though he also teaches courses in world history and English history, as well as a laptop course in Western Civilization. Dr. Burns’s first book, Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe, a study of how European leaders used film as an imperial tool and how colonial Africans resisted in unexpected and surprising ways, was named by Choice magazine as one of its Outstanding Academic Titles for 2002. He has also co-written a textbook on African history entitled A History of Africa (2003).

For Dr. Burns’s course syllabi, curriculum vitae, and other useful resources, please visit his webpage at http://www.clemson.edu/~burnsj/.

Selected Publications
"The Cinema in Zimbabwe" in Cinemaction (Paris, forthcoming)

"A Source of Innocent Merriment: Cinema and Society in Colonial Zimbabwe" South African Historical Journal (Forthcoming)

"John Wayne on the Zambezi: Cinema, Empire, and the American Western in British Central Africa" International Journal of African Historical Studies (December 2002)

Flickering Shadows: Cinema and Identity in Colonial Zimbabwe (Ohio University Press, 2002)

"Biopics and Politics: The Making and Unmaking of the Rhodes Films" Biography: An Interdisciplinary Journal (volume 23, #1, Winter 2000)

"Watching Africans Watch Movies: Theories of Spectatorship in British Colonial Africa,” Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television (June 2000)

Co-editor, Problems in Modern African Studies (Markus Wiener Press, 1997)

Co-editor, Historical Problems of Imperial Africa (Markus Wiener Press, 1994)

Co-editor, Problems in African History (Markus Wiener Press, 1992)

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