Professor George Wolfe

George Wolfe

Biography
George Wolfe is Coordinator of Outreach Programs for the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Ball State University where he served as Director of Peace Studies from 2002 to 2006. He also chairs the Muncie Interfaith Fellowship, is the advisor to the student activist organization Peaceworkers, and was trained to conduct interfaith dialog and peace building through All Faiths Seminary International in New York City where he was ordained as an interfaith minister.

Dr. Wolfe holds a Doctorate in Higher Education from Indiana University, has received mediator training, and serves on the advisory board of the Toda Institute for Peace, Policy and Global Research at the University of Hawaii. He has spoken at Elon University in North Carolina, at Anderson University in Indiana, and in Honolulu on the topic: Gandhian Philosophy: Slaying the Enemy Within. In the summer of 2004 he taught a class at Chautauqua Institution in New York entitled Christianity and the History of Nonviolence in America, and last summer he spoke at Chautauqua Institution on the topic Countering Political Extremism.

Dr. Wolfe also teaches in the School of Music at Ball State. He received his Masters of Music degree in 1972 from Indiana University where he was also awarded a Performers Certificate from the IU School of Music. He has served as an artist-in-residence at universities in the United States, Austria, Canada, France, India and Costa Rica. His interdisciplinary interests have extended beyond Western music traditions through an open fellowship awarded him by the Eli Lilly Endowment to study in New Delhi, India. In 1997, Ball State University awarded Dr. Wolfe its Outstanding Creative Endeavor award.