Christopher P. Long

Christopher P. Long is an American academic, as well as Professor of Philosophy and current Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University.[1] He is the author of three monographs, the co-founder of the Mellon-funded Public Philosophy Journal, and an advocate for open access.

Career & Scholarship

Long was educated at Ohio's Wittenberg University, before going on to complete his graduate studes at The New School for Social Research in New York, where he received his PhD in 1998.[2] He held an Assistant Professorship at Richard Stockton College for five years,[3] before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University in 2004. He went on to serve as Director of Graduate Studies for the philosophy department at Penn State, before being appointed Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate Education.[4] In 2015, he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University.[4]

Long has written extensively on both ancient Greek and contemporary continental philosophy. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, he has published three monographs, two of which were with Cambridge University Press: The Ethics of Ontology: Rethinking an Aristotelian Legacy (SUNY 2004), Aristotle On the Nature of Truth (Cambridge 2010), and Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Cambridge 2014).

Long is co-founder of the Public Philosophy Journal, a project that has received over $780,000 in funding from the Mellon Foundation.[5][6]

Advocacy

Long is an advocate of public scholarship, open access, and digital approaches to scholarship and pedagogy. In addition to his Digital Dialogue podcast,[7] Long has frequently written about the benefits of using social media to enable education, scholarship, and collaboration.[8][9][10][11] In 2013, Long expressed an affinity with the Digital Humanities, citing the field's "openness to diversity", "commitment to collaboration", "persistent publicness", and "performative consistency".[12]

References

  1. ↑ "Department of Philosophy: Chris Long Bio". Michigan State University. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  2. ↑ Long, Christopher P. (2014). Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading. Cambridge University Press.
  3. ↑ Christopher P., Long. "Chris Long's LinkedIN". LinkedIN.
  4. 1 2 "Christopher P. Long Appointed as Dean". Michigan State University. 2015. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  5. ↑ "New Mellon grant supports expansion of Public Philosophy Journal". Penn State News. 2015. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  6. ↑ "The Public Philosophy Journal Awarded Grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation". Matrix. 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  7. ↑ Christopher P., Long. "Digital Dialogue". cplong.org. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  8. ↑ O’Sullivan, James, Christopher P. Long, and Mark Mattson. “Dissemination as Cultivation: Scholarly Communications in a Digital Age.” Doing Digital Humanities: Practice, Training, Research. Eds. Constance Crompton, Richard J. Lane, and Ray Siemens. Routlege (2016): 384-397.
  9. ↑ Christopher P., Long (2016). "Twitter as a Platform of Collaboration". cplong.org. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  10. ↑ Christopher P., Long (2016). "Going Viral with Your Scholarship". cplong.org. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  11. ↑ Christopher P., Long (2014). "Philosophy and the Art of Live-Blogging". cplong.org. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  12. ↑ "Interview with Christopher Long of the Public Philosophy Journal". Critical Margins. 2013-08-21. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
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