Christopher P. Long is an American academic, Professor of Philosophy and current Provost and Senior Vice President at the University of Oregon.

[5] He held an Assistant Professorship at Richard Stockton College for five years,[6] before joining the faculty at Pennsylvania State University in 2004.

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), Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing a Politics of Reading (Cambridge 2014), and Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics (Punctum Books, 2018).

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

In addition to his Digital Dialogue and Liberal Arts Endeavor podcasts,[12][13] he has frequently written about the benefits of using social media to enable education, scholarship, and collaboration.