Thom Wolf

{{Other uses|Thomas Wolf (disambiguation)}}

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| name = Thom Wolf |

| image = Thom_Wolf_200307c72.JPG|

| caption = Thom Wolf|

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|7|9|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Houston, Texas, U.S.

| occupation = social entrepreneur, author, editor, lecturer and leadership educator

| spouse = Linda Wolf |

| website = [http://canyoninstitute.org/index.php?page=research-papers] |

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Thom Wolf is international president and professor of global studies of University Institute, New Delhi, India,[http://canyoninstitute.org/index.php?page=research-papers Professor of Global Studies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215002844/http://canyoninstitute.org/index.php?page=research-papers |date=February 15, 2009 }} 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.[http://canyoninstitute.org/index.php?page=research-papers International Fellow of Canyon Institute of Advanced Studies] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090215002844/http://canyoninstitute.org/index.php?page=research-papers |date=February 15, 2009 }}

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{{cite web |url=http://www.andrews.edu/sed/lead_ed_admin/leadership/index.html |title=Index :: Andrews University |website=www.andrews.edu |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080629010805/http://www.andrews.edu/sed/lead_ed_admin/leadership/index.html |archive-date=29 June 2008 |url-status=dead}}

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{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jCeDng_in8gC&q=harrison+culture+matters&pg=PA319 |title=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 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Goodin |first1=Robert Edward |last2=Goodin |first2=Robert E. |last3=Tilly |first3=Charles |year=2006 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.irisprojects.umd.edu/ppc_ideas/RAID_Support/Events/culture_matters_pdf/research_project_summary.pdf |title="culture matters" school of thinking |access-date=January 4, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218223109/http://www.irisprojects.umd.edu/ppc_ideas/RAID_Support/Events/culture_matters_pdf/research_project_summary.pdf |archive-date=February 18, 2012 |df=mdy-all }} (Harrison,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fv3roehD6MAC |title=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 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Harrison |first1=Lawrence E. |last2=Huntington |first2=Samuel P. |year=2000 }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r8g6jarL328C&q=harrison+culture+matters&pg=PR9 |title=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 |date=April 28, 2004 |isbn=9780195331806 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Harrison |first1=Lawrence E. }} Berger,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nvt6Me2NPEwC |title=Berger |isbn=9780203957004 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Harrison |first1=Lawrence E. |last2=Berger |first2=Peter |date=January 13, 2006 }} Etounga-Manguelle,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lTOkY7CSaGwC&q=%22culture+matters%22+Etounga-Manguelle&pg=PA65 |title=Etounga-Manguelle |isbn=9780465031764 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Harrison |first1=Lawrence E. |last2=Huntington |first2=Samuel P. |year=2000 }} Edgerton,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fv3roehD6MAC&q=Robert+Edgerton,+traditional+beliefs+and+practices&pg=PA126 |title=Edgerton |isbn=9780465031764 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Harrison |first1=Lawrence E. |last2=Huntington |first2=Samuel P. |year=2000 }} Gordona,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fv3roehD6MAC&q=harrison+culture+matters&pg=PA44 |title=Gordona |isbn=9780465031764 |access-date=January 4, 2012|last1=Harrison |first1=Lawrence E. |last2=Huntington |first2=Samuel P. |year=2000 }} and others), Wolf is part of a growing international group of thinkers and activists (Omvedt, Mani, Mungekar,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tbtAAAAAMAAJ&q=Mungekar+phule |title=Mungekar |date=January 1, 2005 |access-date=January 4, 2012}} Jadhav,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yZGFAAAAIAAJ&q=Jadhav+phule |title=Jadhav |year=1985 |access-date=January 4, 2012}} 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,[http://canyoninstitute.org/Forms/Wolf_21st%20Century%20India.pdf India Progress-Prone] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160124013808/http://canyoninstitute.org/Forms/Wolf_21st%20Century%20India.pdf |date=January 24, 2016 }}The Baliraja Proposal of Mahatma Phule (2008) 2nd edition {{ISBN|978-81-904351-3-0}}[4] 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,[http://canyoninstitute.org/Forms/Wolf_3%20Challenges-Buddhism.pdf Buddhism and the Contemporary World] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303173019/http://canyoninstitute.org/Forms/Wolf_3%20Challenges-Buddhism.pdf |date=March 3, 2016 }} "Three Challenges for Buddhism in the 21st century" (2007)[5]; and Buddhism in the 21st century, "Mahayana Buddhism: TippingPoint Buddhism" (release date 2009).