Joseph Snyder, Ph.D.

Courses Taught

World History Courses

• WH100 African Civilization
• WH125 Islamic Civilization
• WH150 Ancient World Civilizations
• WH305 World Civilization
• WH407 Ancient Egypt
• WH408 The World of Alexander the Great
• WH409 A History of Greek and Roman Myth
• WH410 The Age of Greece
• WH435 The Rise and Fall of the British Empire

European History Courses

• EH101 Early European Civilization
• EH103 Modern European Civilization
• EH115 Ancient Greece and Rome
• EH412 The Age of Rome
• EH418 Modern Britain

General History Courses

• GH315 Historiography

Graduate Courses

• WH630 Graduate Seminar in World History

Biography

Dr. Snyder teaches courses on ancient history, African history, and British history at Southeast Missouri State. His research interests include ancient Egypt's Amarna Period, Rome's Diocletianic revolution, Tudor-Stuart England, and colonial and post-colonial Sudan. He has published on social development in British Sudan, the influence of the Fabian Society on British colonial development in Africa, literary criticism of the British Empire, and historical parallelism in ancient epic literature. He has also contributed textbook chapters on ancient and post-classical African civilization, early Islamic civilization, and ancient (post-Vedic) India. His current research includes book projects examining the place of British Sudan in Anglo-Egyptian treaty negotiations after World War II and Fabianised colonial development projects in Kenya, Uganda, and Sudan, as well as articles on the agency of Sudanese slave soldiers in the late-nineteenth century and comparative studies of indirect rule in Roman client states and British Nigeria.