Educational Background:

• D.Phil., New College, University of Oxford, 1983, South African History
• M.A., University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1975, Modern European History
• B.A., Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, NC, 1968, History

Professional Experience:

• East Carolina University, Assistant Professor (1983-2008) and Director of Undergraduate Studies, History Department (2000-2008)
  
• University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Lecturing Assistant (1978)
• University of South Carolina, Columbia, Teaching Assistant (1975-1976)

Courses Taught:

• History of Africa
• History of the Middle East
• History of South Africa
• Imperialism in Theory and Practice
• US History to 1877
• US History since 1877
• World Civilization to 1500
• World Civilization since 1500

Selected University Service:

• Academic Transition Program, 1986-2000
• African and African American Studies Program; Founding Committee Member and Web Editor, 2007-2008
• African Studies Committee, 1983-2008; Coordinator, 1984-87, 1994-95
• Department of History Newsletter, Editor, 1990-92
• Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Committee, 1986-1992
• Y2K Representative, Department of History, 1999-2000

Selected Grants:

• Institute in Teaching Writing Intensive Courses, "The Summary/Reaction Journal," Academic Affairs, ECU, $750, 2005
• Department of History, Brewster Scholar, to work on the monograph, "James Sivewright, the Imperialist Afrikander of South Africa, 1848-1916," $2,600, 1995-97
• Research/Creative Activity Committee and the Graduate School, to investigate newly discovered correspondence in the Sivewright family papers in Edinburgh, Scotland for a monograph on
  James Sivewright, $2,211, 1993
• Office of the Dean of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Assistant Dean for Research, and the Department of History's Adrian Price Endowment, funds to research imperial images in Vanity Fair lithographs at the Library of Congress, $366, 1992
• NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "The End of the British Empire," Dr. Roger Louis, Director, University of Texas at Austin, $3,500, 1990
• Lawrence F. Brewster Fund, "International Conference on Railway Imperialism in Honor of Lawrence Brewster," $4,500, 1988
• NEH and NC Humanities grants for "Apartheid and the United States," a public symposium, $5,868, 1986
• NEH and Southern Regional Education Board, Atlanta, four awards to research the relationship between international capital and railway imperialism in South Africa; carried out in Amsterdam, London, and Paris, $2,000, 1985-86

Selected Publications:

• "African National Congress" and nine other articles about South African subjects in the Historical Dictionary of the British Empire (Greenwood, 1997)
• "Albert John Lutuli and Moise Tshombe" in Frank Magill, editor, Great Lives in History: the Twentieth Century (Salem Press, 1990), 1387-91 and 2300-05
• "The Drifts Crisis and the Jameson Raid, A Centennial Review," The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Volume 25, Number 2, May 1997, 219-239
• "Engines of Empire and Independence: Railways in South Africa, 1863-1916" in
  Clarence Davis and Kenneth Wilburn, editors, Railway Imperialism (Greenwood, 1991), 25-40
• "Rails Crossed: Imperialists, Republicans, and Edward McMurdo," The South African Journal of Economic History, Special Issue: Business Imperialism in South Africa, Volume 11, Number 2, September 1996, 82-103
• "James Sivewright," Dictionary of South African Biography, IV, (Tafelberg Uitgewers, Ltd., 1982), 572-574
• "The Nature of the Rothschild Loan: International Capital and South African Railway Diplomacy, Politics, and Construction, 1891-1892," The South African Journal of Economic History, III, March, 1988, 4-19
• Railway Imperialism, co-editor with C. Davis (Greenwood, 1991)

Works in Progress:

• "Philosophies of History: Thirty Years of Undergraduate Drawings of History, a Qualitative and Quantitative Study," a monograph; quantification and analysis underway
• "The Imperialist Afrikander: James Sivewright and South Africa, 1878-1898," a monograph; second draft

Selected Web Editorships and Electronic Publications:

• Academic Home Page, http://core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/, 1995-2006
• Book review of Living With Africa by Jan Vansina, H-Africa, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=30416851284406, 1996
• Fundamentals of Teaching with On-Line Resources, http://www.h-net.org/~africa/sources/asapr96kw.html, 1996-2006
• Letters from Africa, http://core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/LettersfromAfrica/H-A0Homepage.htm, East Carolina University, 1997-2006
• Revolution in South Africa: Albert John Luthuli, Rolihlahla Nelson Dalibunga Mandela, and the African National Congress, East Carolina University, http://core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/sa.htm, 1997-2006
• Web Editor, the African Studies Committee, East Carolina University, http://www.ecu.edu/african/homepage.htm, 1997-2006
• Web Editor, Department of History, East Carolina University, http://www.ecu.edu/history/, 1999-2004
• Web Editor, H-Africa, a member of the H-Net family of listservs, Michigan State University, http://www.h-net.org/~africa/, 1997-2006
• Web Editor, The Lawrence F. Brewster Lectures in History, East Carolina University, http://www.ecu.edu/history/Brewster/blhp.htm, 1998-2004
• Web Editor, Southeast Regional Seminar for African Studies (SERSAS), East Carolina University, http://www.ecu.edu/african/sersas/homepage.htm, homepage and listserv, SERSAS-L, 1997-2006
• Web Editor, Suzuki Piano Basics, East Carolina University, http://core.ecu.edu/hist/wilburnk/SuzukiPianoBasics/, homepage and listserv, SUZUKI-L, 1997-2006