Glenn E. Sanders

Professor of History
Chair, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences


Owens Hall 307
405.878.2215

OBU Box 61232
500 W. University
Shawnee, OK  74804

Glenn Sanders has traveled to Great Britain, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Syria, and Turkey for pleasure and further study. He has received OBU's Promising Teacher and Meritorious Service Awards.  Professor Sanders teaches the Western Civilization sequence, Middle East: Politics and Culture, and Senior Seminar. He is an ordained elder at United Presbyterian Church, Shawnee, where he sings in the choir.  He and his wife, Alice, have four children: Mary, Clara, Isabel, and Edward.


Professional Interests:
The relationship of spiritual practices to teaching.
Institutional practices in Christian higher education.
Christian-Muslim cultural and intellectual relations.


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


Selected Publications and/or Professional Activities:

“My Tom Dowdy at OBU:Friendship and a Faithful ‘Sociological Imagination.’” Presented at the Association of Christians Teaching Sociology meeting, Northfield, Minn., June 2008.

“Christian Belief and History Teaching: Some New Opportunities,” Fides et Historia 39 (Winter/Spring 2007): 75-84.

“Comenius on Vanity: The Discipline of Discernment, for Seeking Excellence in American Christian Colleges.” Presented at the Calvin College conference on “Reimagining Educational Excellence," Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 2007.

“Exposing Students to Intractable Problems: Christian Faith and Justice in a Course on the Middle East,” in Spirituality, Justice, and Pedagogy, ed. David I. Smith, John Shortt, and John Sullivan, special issue of Journal of Education and Christian Belief 10 (Autumn 2006): 39-62.

“Christian Faith and Teaching History: Tools and Communities,” Fides et Historia 36 (Winter/Spring 2004): 105-10.