{"id":145,"date":"2014-07-07T15:43:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantreanor.wordpress.com\/?page_id=145"},"modified":"2020-12-01T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T14:51:06","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read, write, and teach at Loyola Marymount University<\/a>, where I am currently Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of Philosophy<\/a>. I am also an Affiliated Faculty member in Environmental Studies<\/a> and in Irish Studies<\/a>. At LMU I was the founding Director of the Environmental Studies Program<\/a>\u00a0and the founding Director of LMU’s Academy for Catholic Thought and Imagination<\/a>, an interdisciplinary research institute\u00a0that seeks to encourage\u00a0intellectual dialogue\u00a0at LMU, and to support faculty scholarship on a wide range of topics in the humanities, social sciences, arts, and sciences.<\/span><\/p>\n

I completed my undergraduate studies at\u00a0UCLA<\/a> in between absences to live and study in Japan, travel, and engage in serial autodidactism. My graduate work began quite a bit later, after additional years spent living and traveling abroad, as well as time working as a climbing guide in the United States. I studied first at CSU, Long Beach<\/a> and later, after another year off from university to climb and travel, at Boston College<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a native of California, though I\u2019ve traveled on six continents and lived, in very small towns and very large cities, on three. My family and I still travel several months a year, and try to do so on a low-carbon, low-cost, high-adventure, experience-rich model. We spend a fair bit of each year living out of tents, cabins, boats, trailers, and the like. I have a number of interests outside of academia. Climbing of all sorts has been an abiding passion in my life, and I\u2019ve spent a great deal of time ascending and descending rock, ice, and snow. Other mountain-related pursuits developed organically from this passion, including skiing, distance running, backpacking, fly fishing, and similar activities. I\u2019m also interested in poetry, literature, art, music, chess, history, science, and a great many other things. I find there\u2019s no shortage of worthwhile endeavors to occupy my time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read, write, and teach at Loyola Marymount University, where I am currently Charles S. Casassa Chair and Professor of Philosophy. I am also an Affiliated Faculty member in Environmental Studies and in Irish Studies. At LMU I was the founding Director of the Environmental Studies Program\u00a0and the founding Director of LMU’s Academy for Catholic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-145","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.lmu.edu\/briantreanor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}