Christopher P. Long

Christopher P. Long is an American academic, Professor of Philosophy and current Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of Oregon. Prior to taking on this role, he was Dean of the College of Arts & Letters and the Honors College and MSU Foundation Professor at Michigan State University. He is the author of four monographs, the co-founder of the Mellon-funded Public Philosophy Journal, a primary investigator on the Mellon-funded HumetricsHSS grant, and an advocate for open access.

Career and scholarship Long was educated at Germantown Friends School, in Philadelphia, Ohio's Wittenberg University, before going on to complete his graduate studies at The New School for Social Research in New York, where he received his PhD in 1998. He held an Assistant Professorship at Richard Stockton College for five years, 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. In 2015, he was appointed Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University.

Long is co-founder of the Public Philosophy Journal, a project that has received over $780,000 in funding from the Mellon Foundation. He is also a primary investigator for the Mellon funded Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences initiative.

Advocacy Long is an advocate of public scholarship, open access, and digital approaches to scholarship and pedagogy. In addition to his Digital Dialogue and Liberal Arts Endeavor podcasts, he has frequently written about the benefits of using social media to enable education, scholarship, and collaboration.