John Glover

Assistant Professor of History
Director, Social Science Program
Gannett #2
Phone: x4277
Email: John_Glover@redlands.edu

Dissertation

Ph.D. 2000, University of Illinois at Chicago
Dissertation entitled “The Hope in This World and The Next: Maam Cerno and the Settlement of Darou Mousty, 1912-47”

Research Interests

African history: West Africa, Senegambia, Sufi Orders, Islamic Revolution and Reform
The Muridiyya
Global history: The Islamic World, Islamic Reform, Sufism and the Sufi Orders,
European Imperialism and Decolonization

Courses

HIST 101 “World History to 1450”
HIST 102 “World History since 1450”
HIST 158 “The African Experience to 1800”
HIST 159 “The Emergence of Modern Africa”
HIST 352 “Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade”
HIST 354 “Race and History in South Africa”

First-Year Seminars, Johnston Seminars, and History Research Seminars
“God’s Own Medicine and the Devil’s Cup: A Global History of Addictive Foods and Drugs”
“Understanding Islam”
“Islam in African History”
“Myth as History: The Works of J.RR. Tolkien”
“The Historiography of World History”

Research Presentations

“Islamic Reform, Revolution, and Jihaad: Sufi Perceptions of Social and Political Change”
World History Association Conference, Atlanta, GA June 2003

“The Forging of New Colonial Relationships: The Experiences of a Murid Town During World War I” African Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA November 1999

“‘The Mosque is One Thing, The Administration is Another’: Islam and Politics in Colonial Senegal” World History Association Conference, Victoria, B.C., Canada June 1999

Publications

John Glover, “‘The Mosque is One Thing, The Administration is Another’: Islam and Politics in Colonial Senegal,” The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 3 (2000)

Current Project

Sufism, Islamic Reform, and Jihaad in West Africa: The Murid Experience in Senegal