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Greg Reihman is Lehigh University's Director of Faculty Development and Co-director of the Lehigh Lab. In these roles, he works together with faculty, students and staff to foster excellence in teaching and learning at Lehigh. 

Greg also serves as Adjunct Professor in the Philosophy Department. At Lehigh, he has taught freshman seminars, Introduction to Philosophy, Philosophy East and West, and Philosophy of Technology. In 2008-9, he is co-teaching the Technology Research and Communication (TRAC) Writing Fellows Seminar and the South Mountain College Investigations course.

Greg graduated from Yale University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. After teaching English in China from 1993-4, he earned his Master's Degree (1995) and then his Doctorate (2001) in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. From 1998 to 2004 he worked at Stanford University, teaching in and helping to administer the Introduction to the Humanities Program.

Greg has received numerous accolades for his teaching, including the Departmental Award for Teaching Excellence at UT Austin.  He was also honored by having his doctoral work nominated for the university's Outstanding Dissertation Award.

In 2004-5 Greg was a Mellon Faculty Research Fellow at the Penn Humanities Forum, where he worked on a comparative study of dream arguments in Western and Chinese philosophical traditions.   His philosophical research interests include the history of modern philosophy, classical Chinese philosophy, comparative philosophy, and philosophies of technology and education.

At Lehigh, he has played a key role in the recent Middle States Accreditation process, co-chairing the Committee on Technology Support for Lehigh's Learning-Centered Mision. He was also co-chair of the Enhancing Student Life and Learning subcommittee during last spring's Strategic Thinking Process.

He has also been a key leader in many of Lehigh's teaching and learning initiatives, starting a project on Innovations in Teaching Large Lecture Courses, co-facilitating the Global Citizenship Faculty seminars, and serving as point person on explorations of new technology, including the educational uses of audio, podcasting, wikis, blogs, discussion boards, virtual realities, and project-based collaborative learning,

His wife Kristin is a resident in Family Medicine at Lehigh Valley Medical Center.  They are the proud parents of two wonderful sons, Mahlon (age 9) and Baxter (age 6) and a lovely daughter Tula (1 and a half)