Humphrey Tonkin

Humphrey Tonkin
Tonkin in 2008
4th President of the
University of Hartford
In office
1989–1998
Preceded byStephen J. Trachtenberg
Succeeded byWalter Harrison
Personal details
Born
Humphrey R. Tonkin

(1939-12-02) 2 December 1939 (age 85)
Truro, Cornwall
Alma materSt John's College, Cambridge, Harvard University
WebsiteOffice of the President

Humphrey R. Tonkin (born 2 December 1939) is professor of English, and served as the 4th president of the University of Hartford.[1] He is also a dedicated Esperantist.

Biography

Born in Truro, UK, Tonkin is a dual citizen of the U.K. and the U.S. He earned his undergraduate degree from St John's College, Cambridge and his PhD from Harvard University. His academic specialities include the English Renaissance and Edmund Spenser, as well as language use and international languages.

As a professor of the University of Pennsylvania, Tonkin in 1970 received the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching. From 1971 to 1975 he served as Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Studies. In 1974 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and spent a research year (1975-76) at Oxford University. The years 1980–81 he spent as a visiting professor at Columbia University; in 1983 he became president of the Potsdam College of the State University of New York. From 1989 to 1998 he was president of the University of Hartford and University Professor of the Humanities. In 2006 he received the Cassandra Pyle Award for Leadership and Collaboration in International Education and Exchange. In semi-retirement, he taught Shakespeare and Development of Theatre at the University of Hartford's Hartt School until 2015.

As an Esperantist, Tonkin has written and translated numerous works in and about the language. Between 1974 and 1980 as well as between 1986 and 1989 he was president of the Universal Esperanto Association. In 1983 he was among the founders of the Esperantophone Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj San Marino (AIS). Tonkin is also a member of the Akademio de Esperanto.[2]

Tonkin is one of the editors of the journal Language Problems and Language Planning.

Fund for Innovation

In 2022 Esperantic Studies Foundation created a fund that bears his name: "Humphrey Tonkin Fund for Innovation" to accelerate new projects for research in education and linguistic justice.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Dr. Humphrey Tonkin". hartford.edu. Archived from the original on 28 January 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Akademio de Esperanto: Membraro". Retrieved 13 December 2008.
  3. ^ "Humphrey Tonkin Fund for Innovation". Esperantic.org. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
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