Lamont DeHaven King is an Associate Professor of History. He received the Ph.D. and M.A. from Temple University and the B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University.
      He teaches courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in African and Global History.
      His research focuses on ethnicity and nationalism in Africa and comparative global history. Representative publications include: "Nations without Nationalism: Ethno-Political Theory and the Demise of the Nation-State." Journal of Developing Societies, 18:4, Fall 2003; "From Caliphate to Protectorate: Ethnicity and the Colonial Sabon Gari System in Northern Nigeria." Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 4:2, Summer 2003; and "State and Ethnicity in Precolonial Northern Nigeria" in Conceptualizing/ Reconceptualizing Africa: The Construction of African Historical Identity, edited by Maghan Keita, Leiden: Brill, 2002.  His book, Africa and the Nation-State: State Formation and Identity in Ancient Egypt, Hausaland, and Southern Africa, was published by the Edwin Mellen Press in summer 2006.

Lamont D King
(Full-time faculty)
History Department
CLEV 303
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 4168
e-mail: kingld@jmu.edu