Greg Reihman, Ph.D. serves as Lehigh University’s inaugural Vice Provost for Arts and Libraries, a role established to unify and elevate the university’s premier intellectual and cultural assets. 

In this capacity and as a member of the President’s Senior Leadership Team, Provost’s Cabinet and Council of Deans, and a Lehigh Strategy initiative lead, Reihman will provide strategic and organizational leadership for Lehigh’s libraries, the Lehigh University Art Galleries (LUAG), and the Zoellner Arts Center. By aligning these cornerstones of Lehigh’s intellectual environment, he creates spaces and programs that foster and amplify the vision of creative expression, intellectual inquiry and community-making championed by the leaders of the organizations that he oversees. The goal of this effort is to create an integrated and open environment for  interdisciplinary education and innovation that aligns with Lehigh’s strategic initiatives in interdisciplinary education and research and engagement with the campus and regional communities.

A teacher and longtime advocate for the transformative power of the humanities and arts, experiential learning, and human-centered technology, he has a proven ability to creatively and transparently connect diverse activities to the larger university strategy and build nationally recognized user-focused organizations that serve multiple audiences (students, faculty, staff, community). 

As the leader of the “Organization of the Future” initiative within the university’s Inspiring the Future Makers strategy, he has pioneered efforts in transforming Lehigh’s user experience—understanding and experience that is essential as Lehigh seeks to integrate the libraries and the arts more widely across and deeply into the campus fabric. A philosopher trained at Yale (BA) and UT Austin (MA, PhD)  with a career-long dedication to the liberal arts, Reihman also brings a deeply humanistic lens to leadership and his work has consistently focused on dissolving administrative silos to create seamless “learning and living” environments that benefit students across all five Lehigh colleges.

In his tenure as Vice Provost for Library and Technology Services, Reihman led the transformation of  Lehigh’s libraries into dynamic hubs that support the intellectual and scholarly work of Lehigh’s faculty and students through enhancing digital scholarship, open knowledge initiatives, and collaborative research. His leadership advanced the creation of the Lehigh Emerging Technology Labs (“LETs Labs”), Visualization, Podcasting, and AR/VR Studios, collaborative classrooms, art and design competitions, and the Community & Inclusion Resource Center: A Library for Everyone (“CIRCLE”). His human-centered approach to leadership has earned national recognition. Under his guidance, Lehigh’s libraries were recently ranked #10 in the nation by The Princeton Review and twice received the Library Excellence in Access and Diversity (LEAD) Award.

As the inaugural Director of the Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), he spent over a decade at the forefront of pedagogical excellence, championing initiatives in the Digital Humanities, creative inquiry, inclusive teaching, online learning, and project-based learning across the university. His recent leadership of the Provost’s Generative AI Advisory Committee further demonstrates his ability to guide the university through the ethical and practical implications of new technologies in creative and academic spaces. 

Greg has participated in the ASU/Georgetown Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership-Cohort X (2023-24) , the EDUCAUSE Hawkins Leadership Roundtable (2018, 2019), and the Bacharach Leadership Program (2016-17).

In addition to his administrative leadership, Reihman teaches in the Department of Philosophy, where his research and teaching explore the history of modern philosophy, the philosophy of technology, philosophy of film, Eastern philosophy, aesthetics, and digital scholarship. 

Before joining Lehigh in 2004, he taught in and led interdisciplinary, technology-enhanced humanities programs at Stanford University. He remains dedicated to the belief that the intersection of the arts and libraries is the heart of a vibrant university experience—one that empowers the next generation of thinkers, creators, and innovators. [Website]