Charles Long has been a Fellow of Jonathan Edwards since the fall of 1966, when he was appointed to the faculty of the English Department. He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Rutgers University, and he earned a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. After a number of years on the full-time faculty he moved to the Yale College Dean’s Office where he became Dean of Academic Affairs. In 1983 he was appointed to the Provost’s Office, where he eventually became Deputy Provost of the University. During his many years in the Provost’s Office, his responsibilities included all of the humanities and most of the social science departments and nearly all of non-medical professional schools, including Law and Management. His also had oversight responsibility for the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, the Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the World Fellow’s Program, and the Center for the Study of Globalization. He was the coordinator and often author of some of the University’s core academic policies, including the Faculty Handbook, and he was deeply engaged in senior faculty recruitment across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He retired from Yale in June of 2010, but has remained active in an informal consulting capacity.
