Gregg Lambert

His most recent book Philosophy after Friendship: Deleuze's Conceptual Personae (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) deals with the history of political philosophy's "conceptual personae" (Deleuze): the friend, the enemy, the stranger, the migrant, and the refugee or survivor.

In 1996, Lambert joined the Department of English at Syracuse University and was later appointed as Chair between 2005 and 2008, before leaving the department to take up his current position at the Syracuse University Humanities Center. Since 2008, Lambert is also Principal Investigator of the Central New York Humanities Corridor. In 2013 he was elected as a member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.

Lambert earned a bachelor's degree in English, with a minor in Religion, from Pacific University in 1983 and an MA in English and Creative Writing from Portland State University in 1984. Between 1984 and 1987, Lambert was a Fellow in the Center for Hermeneutic Studies at the Graduate Theological Union, where he completed a Masters program in Theology and Literature, and graduate studies in French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from the University of California at Irvine under the direction of the late-French philosopher Jacques Derrida and literary theorist Gabriele Schwab.

Gregg Lambert (born 1961) is an American philosopher and literary theorist, who writes on Baroque and Neo-Baroque cultural history, critical theory and film, the contemporary university, and especially on the philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. Between 2008 and 2014, he was the founding director of Syracuse University Humanities Center, where he currently holds a research appointment as Dean's Professor of Humanities.

As Co-Founder of The Perpetual Peace Project, a partnership between the European Union National Institutes of Culture (EUNIC), the International Peace Institute (IPI), the United Nations University, Slought Foundation, Syracuse University, Utrecht University, and the Treaty of Utrecht Foundation, Lambert is engaged in bringing together theorists and practitioners in revisiting 21st century prospects for international peace, on the basis of Immanuel Kant's foundational essay "Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch" (1795). He is the producer of a film by the same name, which consists of a series of short videos of several philosophers, sociologists, and diplomats speaking about peace. Lambert also serves on the Advisory Board of the Histories of Violence project.