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Thom Wolf | |
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 Thom Wolf | |
| Born | July 9, 1944 Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | social entrepreneur, author, editor, lecturer and leadership educator |
| Spouse | Linda Wolf |
| Website | [1] |
Thom Wolf is international president and professor of global studies of University Institute, New Delhi, India,[1] an Asia-based learning group in, servicing South and East Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is an International Fellow of Canyon Institute of Advanced Studies, Phoenix.[2]
Wolf is a social entrepreneur, author and educator in the fields of international education and leadership. He has the B.A. Sociology, Baylor University, M.A. Cross-Cultural Studies, Fuller Graduate School; been awarded an honorary D.Lit. Humanities Grand Canyon University; and has earned a PhD (Global Leadership) Andrews University[3]
Wolf designed several Master of Arts programs for US universities. Leadership engagement and lectures globally include the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México[3], Harvard University, New York University, Indiana University, UCLA, the UC Berkeley, Princeton University, Stanford University, Kunming University (Yunan Province China), Delhi University, Lucknow, and UniversityAmerican University of Dubai. Kunming University (Yunan Province China).
His teachings have centered on the social, educational, and ethical dimensions of comparative worldviews. Informed by the "culture matters" school of thinking[4][5] (Harrison,[6][7] Berger,[8] Etounga-Manguelle,[9] Edgerton,[10] Gordona,[11] and others), Wolf is part of a growing international group of thinkers and activists (Omvedt, Mani, Mungekar,[12] Jadhav,[13] Sardar, Lall, Andrade and others) exploring the significance of the voice of Mahatma Jotirao Phule and wife Savitribai Phule, for the full development of contemporary India.
Wolf is author of India Progress-Prone,[14][15] translated into Hindi and Marathi. His ideas have been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review, Journal of AC Leadership and elsewhere., and is co-author of Phule in His Own Words (2007, with Sunil Sardar), and of "Savitribai and India’s Conversation on Education" (2008, with Suzana Andrade).
His explorations of worshipviews/worldviews/worldvenues linkages have been published in Hindu/Buddhist and Hebrew/Christian Meditation: A Gender Studies Comparison (2006); Buddhism and the Contemporary World,[16] "Three Challenges for Buddhism in the 21st century" (2007)[5]; and Buddhism in the 21st century, "Mahayana Buddhism: TippingPoint Buddhism" (release date 2009).
- ^ Professor of Global Studies Archived February 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ International Fellow of Canyon Institute of Advanced Studies Archived February 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Index :: Andrews University". www.andrews.edu. Archived from the original on June 29, 2008. Retrieved January 12, 2022.
- ^ Goodin, Robert Edward; Goodin, Robert E.; Tilly, Charles (2006). R. E. Goodin, C. Tilly (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2006) ISBN 0-19-927043-0, ISBN 978-0-19-927043-9. ISBN 9780199270439. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ ""culture matters" school of thinking" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on February 18, 2012. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Harrison, Lawrence E.; Huntington, Samuel P. (2000). L. E. Harrison and S. P. Huntington (eds), Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (Basic Books, 2000) ISBN 0-465-03176-5, ISBN 978-0-465-03176-4. ISBN 9780465031764. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Harrison, Lawrence E. (April 28, 2004). L. E. Harrison, The Central Liberal Truth: How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself (Oxford University Press US, 2006) ISBN 0-19-530041-6, ISBN 978-0-19-530041-3. ISBN 9780195331806. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Harrison, Lawrence E.; Berger, Peter (January 13, 2006). Berger. ISBN 9780203957004. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Harrison, Lawrence E.; Huntington, Samuel P. (2000). Etounga-Manguelle. ISBN 9780465031764. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Harrison, Lawrence E.; Huntington, Samuel P. (2000). Edgerton. ISBN 9780465031764. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Harrison, Lawrence E.; Huntington, Samuel P. (2000). Gordona. ISBN 9780465031764. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Mungekar. January 1, 2005. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ Jadhav. 1985. Retrieved January 4, 2012.
- ^ India Progress-Prone Archived January 24, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The Baliraja Proposal of Mahatma Phule (2008) 2nd edition ISBN 978-81-904351-3-0[4]
- ^ Buddhism and the Contemporary World Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine