Walter Fluker

Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership

In addition to being the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership, Walter Earl Fluker is the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project, a division of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College. Before coming to Boston University School of Theology, he was the founder and executive director of the Leadership Center and the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies at Morehouse College. Fluker is a featured speaker, lecturer, and workshop leader for professionals and emerging leaders in public and private domains.

His recent publications include two volumes of a multivolume 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; 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.  He is married to Sharon Watson Fluker and has four children and five grandchildren.