Mr Boria Sax

Bio

Boria Sax holds a doctorate in German and Intellectual History from SUNY Buffalo. His publications include books of scholarship, poetry, reference, translation, memoirs, and other genres. Two of the scholarly books have been named to list of “outstanding academic titles of the year” compiled by the journal Choice: Animals and the Third Reich: Pets, Scapegoats, and the Holocaust (Continuum, 2000) and The Mythical Zoo: An Encyclopedia of Animals in Myth, Legend, and Literature (ABC-CLIO, 2002). His books have been translated into French, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian, and Czech. He has been an invited speaker at many institutions including Yale University, Duke University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Whitechapel Gallery, and many others. He is also an expert on online learning, and won the 2002 Sloan-C award for “online learning effectiveness,” as well as the 2007 Humane Society award for the “distinguished new course.” In addition, he is founder and first President of the nonprofit organization Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS, Inc.), which is dedicated “to promote understanding of traditional bonds between human beings and the natural world.” He lives with his wife in White Plains, New York.