Ethan Sanders
Chair and Professor of History, Regis University
Project title: "Jacques Maritain in Africa: Catholic Social Thinking and African Political Thought"
Biography
Ethan Sanders is Chair and Professor of History at Regis University in Denver, Colorado. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in global intellectual history with a focus on Africa. His first book, Building the African Nation (Cambridge, 2025), explored the growth of "African" identity and pan-Africanism in East Africa, and his second book project, Julius Nyerere: Africa's Global Visionary of the Twentieth Century (under contract with Yale) is a religious and intellectual biography of Julius Nyerere through a global lens.
Research Interests
Research interests: African political thought, pan-Africanism, Christianity and Democracy in Africa, Christian-Muslim Relations in East Africa, Zanzibar and the Cold War
Education
University of Cambridge, PhD in History
University of Cambridge, M.Phil. in Historical Studies
Wheaton College, M.A. in Church History
Baylor University, B.A. in History