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”
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.