Boria Sax holds a doctorate in Intellectual History and German from SUNY Buffalo. He has worked as a consultant on human rights issues for such organizations as Amnesty International, Helsinki Watch, and Human Rights Internet. He is founder of the non-profit organization Nature in Legend and Story (NILAS), dedicated to “promote understanding of traditional bonds between human beings and the natural world.” He is also the author of many critically acclaimed books, especially on animals in human culture, including Animals in the Third Reich (2,000), The Mythical Zoo (2001), both of which were both named by the Journal Choice as among the “outstanding academic titles” of the year. His books have been translated into Japanese, Czech, French, Turkish, and Korean, and his shorter pieces have been translated into many additional languages . He has also lectured widely at institutions including the Smithsonian, the Staten Island Zoo, The Rockwell Museum, Yale University, University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois and Duke University. He currently teaches literature at Mercy College, where he also works as Director of Online Research Development and training. Widely recognized as an authority on distance learning, he won the Sloan Consortium award for “Online Learning Effectiveness” in 2002. Among his current projects is a memoir about growing up in the shadow of atomic espionage, the libretto of an opera, a history of the ravens in the Tower of London and, in collaboration with Frank B. McCluskey, a book on online learning.