Oklahoma Baptist University
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    Wednesday, May 14, 2008


Glenn E. Sanders

Professor of History
Chair, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences
OBU Box 61232
500 W. University
Shawnee, OK  74804
glenn.sanders@okbu.edu


Owens Hall 307
405.878.2215


Glenn Sanders has traveled to Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France in addition to the Middle East for pleasure and further study. He has received OBU's Promising Teacher Award and is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops, especially on topics related to Christianity and higher education.  Professor Sanders teaches the Western Civilization sequence and upper-level courses on the Middle East.  He also teaches the senior seminar for history and political science majors. He is an ordained elder at United Presbyterian Church, Shawnee, where he teaches Sunday school and is a member of the choir. In his free time, Professor Sanders enjoys reading, bicycling, stargazing, and learning to play the cello. He and his wife, Alice, have four children--Mary, Clara, Isabel, and Edward.

Educational Background:
B.A., Baylor University
M.A., Baylor University
Ph.D., Brown University
Dissertation:  “Bureaucrats and Centralized Bureaucracy under Edward I, 1272-1307”



Professor Sanders's Course Webpages


Courses Taught:

Fall and Spring Semesters:
HIST 2013: European Civilization: History
US 204: Contemporary World: History
HIST 3113: Middle East:  Politics and Culture
Senior Seminar: History and Politics
POLI 4259: Model Arab League Simulation

January and Summer Semesters:
Ancient Greece
HIST 3413: Ancient Rome
HIST 3423: Medieval Europe, 500-1300
HIST 3433: Early Modern Europe, 1300-1600
HIST 3503: Britain to 1603



Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities:
"A Visit from Clio: Some Consolations from History,”  presented at the Conference on Faith and History bi-annual meeting, Holland, Michigan, October 2004.

“Getting from Here to There:  Thoughts on Cultivating Faith and Learning,”  presented at the CCCU Campus-Based Faculty Development Project Workshop, Abilene, Texas, May 2004.

“Christian Faith and Teaching History:  Tools and Communities,” Fides et Historia (Winter/Spring 2004): 105-10.

"'A Plain Turkish Tyranny':  Images of the Turk in Anti-Puritan Polemic, 1640-1660," in Puritanism and Its Discontents, ed. Laura L. Knoppers (University of Delaware Press, 2003), 167-93.

“Teaching Twelve Years In:  How to Inspire Students,” Thought and Action 17 (Summer 2001): 31-40.



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May 17, 10:00 AM
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May 17, 5:00 PM
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May 19, 9:00 AM
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May 26, 1:00 PM
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May 27
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