Academic

Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages the Focus of $2.5 Million Grant

Michigan State University was awarded a four-year, $2.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support further development in the research and teaching of less commonly taught languages (LCTLs), with an emphasis on Indigenous languages.…

Christopher LongJuly 25, 2019

Grants, Fellowships, Awards

Creating Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences

To support the Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences (HuMetricsHSS) initiative, Michigan State University has received a $309,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The collaborative HuMetricsHSS pilot aims to create a…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2017

simulated neon image of the word "online" in multiple languages

$1.2M Mellon Grant for Big 10 Academic Alliance Partnership on LCTLs

Michigan State University will use a three-year $1.2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to lead a multi-university research project to improve the teaching of less commonly taught languages, or LCTLs. Faculty from MSU’s Center for…

Christopher LongSeptember 1, 2016

Academic Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Long Road

Mellon Grant Expands Support for the Public Philosophy Journal

Here is the press release we wrote for the second Public Philosophy Journal grant from the Mellon Foundation: Penn State has been awarded $549,000 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for an additional two years…

Christopher LongJanuary 9, 2015

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Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

Cover Art: Matthew Paris's Plato and Socrates

This drawing from Mathew Paris (1217-1259), made famous more recently by Derrida's disquisition on it in The Postcard, appears in a 13th century manuscript that contains a series of fortune-telling tracts. Now, with the generous…

Christopher LongApril 20, 2014

The End of the Beginning and the Path Ahead for @PubPhilJ

On Friday, October 4th, we received the good news that the Mellon Foundation's Scholarly Communications and Information Technology program will provide $236K to support the development of the Public Philosophy Journal (PPJ, aka @PubPhilJ). The grant marks the end of…

Christopher LongOctober 18, 2013

The Public Philosophy Journal $236,000 Mellon Grant

The Public Philosophy Journal, an innovative open access, open peer review online publication in philosophy, has received a one-year, $236,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the development of the…

Christopher LongOctober 16, 2013

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Evolving Book: Building into the CBO

The CBO is Cambridge Books Online, the electronic books platform for Cambridge University Press (CUP). This is the platform into which Mike Chaplin and a team of programmers working for CUP will build the Socratic and…

Christopher LongAugust 6, 2013

Books Digital Humanities The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Evolving Book: Introduction

As my book, Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading, goes officially into editorial production on the print side of Cambridge University Press, I have started to work with Mike Chaplin on…

Christopher LongAugust 4, 2013

Academic Digital Humanities The Long Road

Cultivating the Virtues of DH

Last week humanities scholars from around the world descended upon Lincoln, Nebraska for DH2013, the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. It was my first time at the DH conference and…

Christopher LongJuly 26, 2013

Collaborative Note Taking on @Twitter

As many of you know, I have long been experimenting with how to use twitter effectively in academic contexts. Many are skeptical of twitter's ability to add substantive value to academic conversations because of its…

Christopher LongApril 7, 2013

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

What is Public Philosophy?

As we begin to articulate the contours of the Public Philosophy Journal, some account of the meaning of the public philosophy the journal intends to practice may help us continue to cultivate the community on…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2013

Academic Technology The Long Road

On Live-Tweeting Your Own Lecture

On Thursday, October 25th, at 4:30 PDT, I will read a paper entitled, Plato and the Politics of Reading at the University of San Francisco. One of the main points of the paper is that reading is fundamentally a…

Christopher LongOctober 20, 2012

Books The Evolving Book The Long Road

The Book As Ecosystem of Scholarly Dialogue

Consider this an invitation to continue along a path we have traversed together over the past three years. This path, which began in the wake of my 2009 Summer Faculty Teaching and Learning with Technology Fellowship,…

Christopher LongJune 25, 2012

Old Main at Penn State - View from inside to columns outside

ALP at Penn State: A Vision of the New Research University

University budgeting and strategic planning was the focus of the final Academic Leadership Program (ALP) sponsored by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) held at Penn State, April 12-14, 2012. No two topics have more…

Christopher LongApril 22, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

Multiplayer Introduction Game

At the 2012 Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium at Penn State, I had the honor of introducing Jane McGonigal, Creative Director of Social Chocolate, and game designer extraordinaire. In his book, The Grasshopper, Bernard…

Christopher LongMarch 24, 2012

ALP Fellows at the University of Chicago

ALP at University of Chicago: Virtues of an Education for Democracy

In her address to the Committee on Institutional Cooperation's Academic Leadership Program at the University of Chicago last Thursday, Martha Nussbaum offered a compelling defense of a liberal arts education. She advocated for an education…

Christopher LongFebruary 20, 2012

Grants, Fellowships, Awards The Administrative Life Vita

ALP at Indiana: Herman B. Wells

Sometimes without looking, one finds a paradigm - an example that can serve as a model. Last week I visited Indiana University as a one of Penn State's Academic Leadership Fellows in the Academic Leadership Program of…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

Responding to Gonzalez Review of Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Earlier this week, Frank Gonzalez published a review of my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review. His review is the latest contribution to a decade's long dialogue we…

Christopher LongAugust 9, 2011

Academic Living The Long Road Travel

Learning the Art of Relaxation

STONE HARBOR, NJ - Just midway through my week vacation, I am beginning to learning the art of relaxation. As a faculty member, when the semester of teaching is over, a span of summer begins…

Christopher LongJune 1, 2011

Christopher Long responds to comments from the panel

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

Long Responds to Commentators

In my response to the generous, thoughtful and provocative commentaries of Will McNeill, Drew Hyland and John Lysaker, I attempted to perform the methodological approach I adopted in Aristotle on the Nature of Truth. John…

Christopher LongMay 16, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

Lysaker Comments on Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Lysaker Animated Originally uploaded by cplong11 John Lysaker, Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, commented on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the 2011 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.John's comments invited me…

Christopher LongMay 10, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

Hyland Comments on Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Drew Hyland Originally uploaded by cplong11 Drew Hyland, Charles A. Dana Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College, commented on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the 2011 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.Drew's…

Christopher LongMay 2, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Recognition and Responses Vita

McNeill Comments on Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Drew, Chris, Will and John Originally uploaded by cplong11 William McNeill, Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, commented on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the 2011 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society.Will's…

Christopher LongApril 21, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Recognition and Responses Vita

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Premiers at Sundance

SUNDANCE, UT - Today there was a panel on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the Ancient Philosophy Society held this year at Sundance in Utah. The panel included Will McNeill, Professor…

Christopher LongApril 14, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Seminar: Academic Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Socrates, Plato and the Politics of Truth

Next week I am giving a lecture on Plato's Gorgias at Boston College for the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy. The title of the lecture is Attempting the Political Art. Prior to the lecture,…

Christopher LongMarch 11, 2011

Evolving Digital Research Ecosystem

Final Edits Originally uploaded by cplong11 In the months since my last posts on using Mendeley, Zotero and the iPad for academic research, my experience has been more fully informed by practice. This fall I was…

Christopher LongDecember 27, 2010

The Arrival of the Book

CpL Holding the Book Originally uploaded by cplong11 Today I received a box, and in that box were six objects with a certain degree of heft, a solidity I did not quite expect. The objects…

Christopher LongNovember 17, 2010

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Books Vita

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth

Christopher P. Long, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, 1st ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2010). This book reconsiders the traditional correspondence theory of truth, which takes truth to be a matter of correctly representing objects.…

Christopher LongNovember 11, 2010

Academic Education The Long Road

From Engagement to Cooperation

It is widely recognized among educators that student engagement is a key to academic success. Disengaged students erode the social dynamics in the classroom, have a negative impact on their peers and drop out at…

Christopher LongJuly 8, 2010

Hacking Pedagogy

Cole Camplese and I were invited to be part of this year's Learning Design Summer Camp at Penn State. The presentation topic that was proposed to us was strong in and of itself, but when…

Christopher LongJuly 2, 2010

Integrating Mendeley into the Research Circle

It seems that my quest to close the digital research circle has been joined by a few fellow researchers. The idea is compelling and would not only save both time and paper, but would offer new…

Christopher LongJune 3, 2010

Recognition and Responses Vita

Why I Teach with Blogs

Last fall, Teaching and Learning with Technology shot some footage of me in the classroom as I was teaching my Philosophy 200 course on Socratic Politics. In that course, I made extensive use of blogs…

Christopher LongMay 24, 2010

Zotero, the iPad and Summer Research

Last month in a post about closing the digital research circle, I wrote about using the iPad to read, take notes on pdf files and integrate those files into a bibliography program. We are still…

Christopher LongMay 21, 2010

Closing the Digital Research Circle

I have been looking for a way to close the circle of my digital academic research. The idea is to do rigorous philosophical research without paper, taking full advantage of cloud computing, the syncing of…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2010

Academic Transformation

Over the past few days I have been thinking more intensely about the meaning and nature of academic transformation. In the wake of the TLT Symposium at Penn State last weekend, I traveled to Orlando…

Christopher LongMarch 30, 2010

A Note on the 2010 Horizon Report

Upon reading the 2010 Horizon Report from the New Media Consortium, I was struck by how the key trends in technology they identify might help us meet challenges they articulate. Let me mention a two…

Christopher LongFebruary 6, 2010

A Note in Memory of John Edwin Smith

It is impossible to put the rich complexity of a unique human life into words, but sometimes, the articulation of a single idea can capture something of a life that might otherwise escape notice.

Christopher LongDecember 23, 2009

Academic Education LwCH Technology The Long Road

Embracing Different Voices

After talking to trusted people, thinking things over and otherwise working through the transition I am making to Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts, I have decided to embrace…

Christopher LongDecember 13, 2009

Academic Living The Long Road

On Hearing Oneself Through Others

One of the more important of the many unexpected benefits of producing the Digital Dialogue is the feedback I have received from friends who listen. In a strange way, the podcast offers me some distance…

Christopher LongDecember 2, 2009

Books Vita

Cambridge University Press to Publish "The Saying of Things"

On October 9th, 2009, I received official word that my manuscript, The Saying of Things: The Nature of Truth and the Truth of Nature, was accepted for publication at the Cambridge University Press under the…

Christopher LongOctober 9, 2009

Re-designing the Long Road

One of the great privileges of my summer faculty fellowship has been the opportunity to work with creative and thoughtful educators and designers who were able to help me think more holistically about my identity…

Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2009

Recognition and Responses Vita

TLT Faculty Fellowship Coverage

One of the most rewarding aspects of my Teaching and Learning with Technology Faculty Fellowship has been the recognition my efforts in this area are beginning to gain.Last week, my work over the summer was…

Christopher LongSeptember 11, 2009

Academic Technology The Long Road

Narrative on the Social Web

Yesterday Alan Levine, aka cogdog, gave a presentation on 50+ Ways to Tell a Story using Web 2.0 technologies. The presentation was excellent as it introduced us to a variety of tools available online for…

Christopher LongMay 6, 2009

ETS Summer Faculty Fellowship

I am very excited to have been awarded a 2009 Education Technology Services Summer Faculty Fellowship. The project I will be working on this summer, Socratic Politics in Digital Dialogue, is designed to explore the…

Christopher LongApril 1, 2009

Academic Civic Life Living The Long Road

Magnanimity

I have just finished listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin's book on the Lincoln Presidency, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. Although the book takes a largely uncritical view of Lincoln's political wisdom,…

Christopher LongMarch 2, 2009

Academic Education The Long Road

Our Document

I am beginning to notice something about my course blog for PHIL298H: Patriarchal Force and Political Power. As we discuss the material we have been reading for class and engage with one another online through…

Christopher LongFebruary 5, 2009

Academic Education The Long Road

Teaching with Blogs

For those of you who have noticed a lack of postings here recently, this is largely because I am doing a lot of blogging with my honors class over at the course blog for an…

Christopher LongFebruary 3, 2009

Academic Civic Life The Long Road

Making this Moment Possible

I woke, this much anticipated morning, to the news of the death of a colleague. Professor Paul Lyons taught history, social work and holocaust studies for 29 years at the Richard Stockton College of New…

Christopher LongJanuary 20, 2009

Academic Living The Long Road

The Joys of Writing

I am currently slugging through what I hope are the last few chapters of a book on Aristotle and it is not easy going. Although writing has always been something I love--crafting sentences, considering the…

Christopher LongAugust 7, 2008

Podcasting and Blogging the Liberal Arts

A Liberal Arts Education is committed to cultivating habits of thinking and acting capable of responding to the world in ways that open new possibilities for human community. It is oriented in part by what…

Christopher LongMarch 23, 2008