Biography

Walter Earl Fluker is executive director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, the Coca-Cola professor of leadership studies and editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project.  Known as an expert in the theory and practice of ethical leadership, Fluker serves on numerous boards, the National Selection Committee for U.S. News & World Report America’s Best Leaders and as distinguished speaker for the U.S. Embassy Speaker/Specialist Program in South Africa, Nigeria, India and China.  
 
Recently he completed the first volume of a multi-volume series entitled, The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: My People Need Me (University of South Carolina Press, 2009) and a book, Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility and Community (Fortress, 2009). Other publications include The Stones that the Builders Rejected: Essays on Ethical Leadership from the Black Church Tradition; co-editor with Preston King of Black Leaders and Ideologies in the South: Resistance and Non-Violence; co-editor with Catherine Tumber of A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life.  
 
His prior academic experience includes professorial and administrative positions at Vanderbilt University, Harvard College, Dillard University and Colgate-Rochester Divinity School; and 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.  He earned a Ph.D. in social ethics from Boston University, a Master of Divinity degree from Garrett-Evangelical Seminary and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and biblical studies from Trinity College. (For extensive biographical profile and activities, see the Leadership Center Staff page)

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