Brian Lang, PhD

Biography

Dr. Lang has been employed on a farm, in food service, and in North Dakota. He makes art with his partner—a photographer—and teaches philosophy.

He is a practicing Cynic in the tradition of Hipparchia and Bion. Whereas some Greek Cynics were anti-scientific, ableist, fault-finding loners, Dr. Lang favors Cynicism’s shamelessness, antinomic clarity, cosmopolitan philanthropy, and frugal contentment. 

Scholarly and Creative Works

Awards

• Olive Garden – Certified Trainer, 1997
• Donald K. Anderson Graduate Student Teaching Award, Graduate School, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2001
• Participant in “Teaching About Islam and Middle Eastern Culture”, American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan, January 2010, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) & the Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) Carengie Corporation of New York Grant 2011
• Professor of the Year, University of Jamestown 2011
• Thomas W. Selleck Professor of Alchemy, University of Jamestown 2020
• Emperor of Ethics, Jamestown Regional Medical Center, 2020
• Faculty Mentor – Dilar Dirik, Chis Kramlich, Robert Hanna

Grants

• Dustin Grant, Ethics ‘03
• Grant Mehring, Ethics ‘07
• Leanna Grant, Ethics ‘07
• Carnegie Corporation of New York Grant, “Teaching About Islam and Middle Eastern Culture”, American Center for Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan, January 2010
• Natalie Grant – Critical Thinking ’22