Ethan Sanders

Dr. Ethan Sanders is a fourth generation Coloradan, born and raised in the Denver area. He later completed his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge where he was drawn to the emerging sub-field of global intellectual history, with a geographic focus on Africa and the Indian Ocean World. Broadly speaking, he is interested in the political and religious history of Africa and the Middle East and he has previously published on the Zanzibar Revolution and the Cold War, African political thinkers, missionaries and empire in Africa, Christian-Muslim relations in East Africa, and gender and ethnicity in Zanzibar. Dr. Sanders is currently working on two book-length projects. The first is "Building the African Nation: The African Association and Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century East Africa," (under contract with Cambridge University Press) which looks at how early strands of pan-African thought ignited the political imaginations of East African intellectuals and political activists in the colonial and post-colonial periods. The second is a religious and intellectual biography of Julius Nyerere. Beyond research, he sees his vocation as a scholar-mentor and was attracted to Regis because of the Ignatian principle cura personalis, or care for the whole person. Dr. Sanders loves teaching a breadth of courses at Regis and working one-on-one with students.