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DAN SNELL
Dan
Snell is professor of History at the University of Oklahoma, where
he teaches Ancient Near Eastern and Biblical history, historical methods,
and the history of slavery. From 2000-2004 he has been the L. J. Semrod
Presidential Professor of History.
Snell is the author of seven books and several articles on ancient
economic and social history, and he has won fellowships and grants
from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation,
the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities
Center, the Australian Humanities Research Centre in Canberra, and
the Oregon Humanities Center in Eugene. He was a fellow at the Institute
for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Also he held a Fulbright Research Fellowship to the Syrian Arab Republic,
where he was a frequent participant in archaeological digs. Autumn
quarter, 2000, he was the Visiting Humanities Scholar at Otterbein
College in Westerville, Ohio. Snell graduated from Stanford University and took his
Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages at Yale. Before coming to Oklahoma
in 1983 he taught at the Universities of Washington and Michigan,
and Connecticut, Barnard, and Gustavus Adolphus Colleges.
Snell, 56, is married to Dr. Katherine Barwick-Snell,
visiting assistant professor of Human Relations at the University
of Oklahoma. They have a son,
James, age fourteen, and a daughter, Abigail, age twelve. He and his
wife have been volunteers with the Center for Children and Families
of Norman for eighteen years. In February, 1997, he was elected without
opposition to the five-member board of the Norman Public Schools.
In February, 2002, he was reelected without opposition. In 1999 he
was appointed to the board of the Oklahoma State School Boards Association,
to which he has been reelected twice.
His avocations include bicycling on recumbent bicycles
and brisk games of squash.
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