About
Christopher P. Long is MSU Foundation Professor, Dean of the
College of Arts & Letters, Dean of the
MSU Honors College, and Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. Recognized for values-enacted leadership, Dean Long is committed to the transformative power of liberal arts research and teaching by enriching graduate and undergraduate education, advancing equity and inclusive excellence, recruiting and retaining world-class faculty, and creating new opportunities for collaboration among community partners.
To learn more about my administrative and academic life, I invite you to visit
cplong.org, a site designed to cultivate an online scholarly community around the liberal arts endeavor. You can also find me on
Mastodon.
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As I have been refining the metadata of my #KCWorks submissions, it has been surprisingly present to revisit the reflections of my past self. Here is a link to my article on the "Daughters of Métis" which articulates the origin and effect of patriarchal dominion: https://works.hcommons.org/records/04efk-wyb77 (2025-11-01 ↗)
"How can we create the conditions for imagination and understanding to take root and grow across the university; for the quiet attention that allows what is said to be heard, for the critical discernment that enables us to come to terms with the complex realities we face, and for the ethical imagination that empowers us to respond to the world we encounter in ways that create meaning and connection and joy?" https://cplong.org/2025/10/learning-to-be-at-home-in-the-world/ (2025-10-29 ↗)
I have turned, in recent weeks, to Arendt's "Essays in Understanding," to gain some purchase on the unsettling dynamics of the current moment in the life of our embattled democracy. Her account of understanding here speaks to a way of knowing that has been eclipsed in a social and political culture that has long demonstrated an incapacity to engage complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty with nuance and grace. https://cplong.org/2025/10/learning-to-be-at-home-in-the-world/ (2025-10-04 ↗)
In early May, I had the opportunity to join a group of leaders at the University of Oregon who have committed themselves to the important work of student advising. Here are a few reflections on that experience. @humetricshss #Values https://cplong.org/2025/05/wholeheartedness-in-a-time-of-fear-and-uncertainty/ (2025-05-17 ↗)
As we navigate the difficult challenges that face us in higher education — and across our civic life in these United States — I return to the practices of blogging that have long enriched my academic and personal life. #HigherEd @humetricshss https://cplong.org/2025/04/finding-new-modes-of-communicating-as-provost/ (2025-04-27 ↗)
