Salzburg Global Seminar Session Participant Profiles
Mon 03 Jan - Mon 10 Jan, 2011

Walter Fluker Walter Fluker (Faculty)

Country/Region: USA

Boston University

Most Recently Attended: (2009)
Mellon Fellow Community Initiative - Colleges and Universities as Sites of Global Citizenship

Biography:
Walter Earl Fluker is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership and the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project at Boston University's School of Theology. Before coming to Boston University School of Theology, he was founding executive director of the Leadership Center and the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies at Morehouse College. His recent publications include two volumes of a multi-volume series entitled, The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: volume I, My People Need Me and volume II, "Christian, Who Calls Me Christian?" (University of South Carolina Press, 2009, 2011); and Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility and Community (Fortress, 2009). He is completing a manuscript entitled, The Ground Has Shifted: Essays on Spirituality, Ethics and Leadership from African American Moral Traditions. His prior academic experience includes professorial and administrative positions at Vanderbilt University, Harvard College, Dillard University and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School; and he has served as visiting professor and scholar at Harvard University, The University of Cape Town in South Africa, Columbia Theological Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Fluker received a B.A. from Trinity College; M.Div. from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He has attended several Salzburg Global Seminar programs.