Dr. Timothy Stapleton
Positions
Professor
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
B.A. History, Memorial University, 1989
Doctor of Philosophy History, Dalhousie University, 1993
M.A. History, Dalhousie University, 1990
Biography
Substantive Academic Positions:
Professor/Associate Prof/Assistant Prof, Department of History, Trent University 1998-2015
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Fort Hare, South Africa 1995-98
Post-doctoral Fellow/Lecturer, Department of History, Rhodes University, South Africa 1993-94
Research Affiliations:
Faculty of Military Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, 2024-27
Nigerian Defence Academy 2019-2025
University of Zambia 2013
University of Botswana 2010
University of Zimbabwe 2000-2009
Rhodes University, South Africa 1991-92
Research
Areas of Research
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| HTST 202 LEC 01 01 | An Intro to Military History | 2021 |
| HTST 402 LEC 01 01 | Military History of Africa | 2020 |
| HTST 57301 SEC 01 S01 | Topics in African History | 2021 |
| HTST 63701 LEC 01 01 | Topics in Military History | 2020 |
Projects
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Grant, 2016-2021
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), External Standard Grant, 2011-13
SSHRC, External Standard Grant, 2007-2009
SSHRC, External Standard Grant, 2001-2003
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSRHC) Insight Grant, 2023-27
Awards
- Nelson Mandela Distinguished Africanist Award, Africa Conference, University of Texas at Austin. 2019
- Outstanding Reference Source, Reference and User Services Association (American Library Association). 2018
- Leader in Internationalization, Faculty of Arts, University of Calgary. 2020
- 2021
Publications
- The ‘Wars:’ The Ambiguous Military History of the West African Regiment of Sierra Leone (1898-1928). Timothy Stapleton. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, 100 (2022). 50-71. (2022)
- Sexual Health in Britain’s West African Colonial Army (1898-1960). Timothy Stapleton. Journal of Military History, Vol. 85, No. 3 (July 2021). 619-645. (2021)
- Visual Symbols and Military Culture in Britain’s West African Colonial Army (c.1900-60). Timothy Stapleton. International Journal of Military History and Historiography, 41. 42-73. (2021)
- The Creation and Early Development of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) 1980-93. Timothy Stapleton. Tempo e Argumento (Brazil), Vol. 13, No. 32. 1-25. (2021)
- Barracks Islam and Command Christianity: Religion in Britain’s West African Colonial Army (c.1900-1960). Timothy Stapleton. War and Society, Vol. 39, Issue 1. 1-22. (2020)
- Martial Identities in Colonial Nigeria (c.1900-1960). Timothy Stapleton. Journal of African Military History, Vol. 3, No. 1. 1-32. (2019)
- Game Keepers and Counter-Insurgency in Kenya and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1952-1980. Timothy Stapleton. International Journal of African Historical Studies, 49, 2. 213-234. (2016)
- 'Tracking, Tracking and More Tracking Was Their Motto:’ Bush Tracking and Warfare in Late Twentieth Century Southern Africa. Timothy Stapleton. War and Society, Vol. 34, No. 4. 301-327. (2015)
- Bush Tracking and Warfare in Late Twentieth Century East and Southern Africa,. Timothy Stapleton. Historia, Vol. 60, No. 2 . 229-251. (2014)
- Extra-territorial African Police and Soldiers in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) 1897-1965. Timothy Stapleton. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies, Vol. 38, No. 1. 99-115. (2010)
- A Naughty Child with a Pen:’ Gahadzikwa Albert Chaza as an African Policeman and Author in Colonial Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1936-63. Timothy Stapleton. History in Africa, 37. 159-187. (2010)
- Bad Boys: Infiltration and Sedition in the African Military Units of the Central African Federation (Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe) 1953-63. The Journal of Military History, Vol. 73, No. 4. 1167-1193. (2009)
- The Gold Coast Brigade’s Crossing of the Juba River, Italian Somaliland, February 1941. International Journal of Military History and Historiography. 426-485. (2023)
- 'The Word is steeped in Blood and Violence’: Canadian-Style Federation in Southern Africa. Timothy Stapleton. Krikorian, J., Martel, M. and Shubert, A. (eds.) Globalizing Confederation: Canada and the World in 1867,University of Toronto Press. 226-241. (2017)
- West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960. Timothy Stapleton. Rochester University Press/Boydell and Brewer. 400. (2021)
- A History of Africa. Toyin Falola and Timothy Stapleton. Oxford University Press. 704. (2021)
- Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century. Timothy Stapleton. Routledge. 224. (2018)
- A History of Genocide in Africa. Timothy Stapleton. ABC-Clio. 268. (2017)
- Maqoma: The Legend of a Great Xhosa Warrior . Timothy Stapleton. Amava Heritage Publishing. 336. (2016)
- Warfare and Tracking in Africa, 1952-1990. Timothy Stapleton. Routledge. 256. (2016)
- A Military History of Africa, 3 Vols. Timothy Stapleton. Praeger/ABC-Clio. 977. (2013)
- African Police and Soldiers in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1923-80. Timothy Stapleton. Rochester University Press/Boydell and Brewer. 330. (2011)
- A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid. Timothy Stapleton. Praeger/ABC-Clio. 229. (2010)
- No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East African Campaign of the First World War. Timothy Stapleton. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 200. (2006)
- Faku: Rulership and Colonialism in the Mpondo Kingdom, c.1780-1867. Timothy Stapleton. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 216. (2001)
- Maqoma: Xhosa Resistance to Colonial Advance, c.1798-1873. Jonathan Ball Publishers. (1994)
- Mpilo Walter Benson Rubusana: South Africa’s First Black Parliamentarian. Timothy Stapleton. Fradera, Josep; Portillo, Jose Maria, and Segura-Garcia, Teresa (ed.), Unexpected Voices in Imperial Parliaments, Bloomsbury. 183-204. (2021)
- The Africanization of British Imperial Forces in the East Africa Campaign: 1917. Timothy Stapleton. Douglas E. Delaney and Nikolas Gardner (eds.), Turning Point Year: The British Empire at War in 1917,UBC Press. 139-159. (2017)
- Refugee-Warriors and Other People’s Wars in Post-Colonial Africa: The Experience of Rwandese and South African Military Exiles (1960-94). Timothy Stapleton. Emmanuel M. Mbah and Toyin Falola (eds.), Dissent, Protest and Dispute in Africa,Routledge. 241-259. (2017)
- The External Military Operations of Colonial Southern Rhodesia and Independent Zimbabwe, 1895-2005. Timothy Stapleton. Toyin Falola and Charles Thomas (eds.), Securing Africa: Local Crises and Foreign Intervention, Routledge. 21-32. (2014)
- `The War of the Federation:’ African Security Force Personnel from Southern Rhodesia and the 1959 Nyasaland Emergency. Timothy Stapleton. Kings Phiri, John McCracken and Wapulumuka Mulwafu, (eds.) Malawi in Crisis: The 1959/60 State of Emergency and its Legacy, Press, Zomba, Malawi. 292-314. (2012)
- South Africa. Timothy Stapleton. Ian Beckett (ed.), Citizen Soldiers and Empire: The Amateur Military Tradition in the British Empire, 1837-1902,Routledge. 139-154. (2012)
- Letters from Burma: Views of Black Zimbabwean Soldiers during the Second World War. Timothy Stapleton. Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku (eds.) War and Peace in Africa Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press. 261-278. (2010)
- Valuable, Gallant and Faithful Assistants:’ The Fingo (or Mfengu) as Colonial Military Allies during the Cape-Xhosa Wars (1835-81). Timothy Stapleton. Stephen Miller (ed.) Soldiers and Settlers in Africa Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. 15-47. (2021)
- The Impact of World War One on African People. Timothy Stapleton. John Laband (ed.) Daily Lives of Civilians in Wartime Africa: From Slavery Days to the Diamond Wars, Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing. 113-137. (2006)
- Faku, the Mpondo and Colonial Advance in the Eastern Cape, 1834-53. Timothy Stapleton. C. Youe and T. Stapleton, (eds.), Agency and Action in Colonial Africa: Essays in Honour of John Flint, London: MacMillian Publishers. 12-33. (2001)
- The Origins of the Nigerian and Ghana Navies (c.1930-1960). Stapleton, Timothy (ed.), African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge. 66-90. (2022)
- African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Stapleton, Timothy (ed.), African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge. 252. (2022)
- African Navies in the Twenty-First Century. Alexander Hill. Stapleton, Timothy (ed.), African Navies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, London: Routledge. 183-212. (2022)
- The Importance of Operational Accounts in African Military History: Introduction. Timothy Stapleton. Journal of African Military History, 5 (2021). 73-76. (2021)
- Encyclopedia of African Colonial Conflicts, 2 vols. Timothy Stapleton (editor). ABC-Clio. 787. (2016)
- Central African Republic: Coups, Mutinies, and Civil War. Timothy Stapleton. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Military in Politics, Oxford University Press. (2019)
- Union of South Africa. Timothy Stapleton. 1914-1918 Online, International Encyclopedia of the First World War. (2016)
- Modern African Conflicts: An Encyclopedia of Civil Wars, Revolutions and Terrorism. Timothy Stapleton. ABC-Clio. 401. (2022)
In the News
- Coup in Zimbabwe. CTV News. (2017)
- The Forgotten Heroes of Empire. Al Jazeera. (2019)
- Finding Your Roots. PBS.
- Queen Nzinga. Radio France International (RFI).
- Death of Nelson Mandela. La Presse. (2013)
- Calgary's Eritrean community looking for way forward after violent clash. CTV News. (2023)
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