About Brian Doak

I am currently Vice President of George Fox Digital and a Professor at George Fox University, where I help lead our university through teaching innovation, assessment, promotion of faculty scholarship, and more. I care about reaching learners in a variety of situations—in deep discussion around seminar tables, as readers of academic content, as listeners through popular outlets like podcasts, as students in digital courses, and as viewers on YouTube. As a scholar, my work focuses on ancient languages and literatures and their reception in the modern world. I am a first generation college student, and my PhD is from Harvard University in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations. I’ve published six solo-authored academic books, co-edited a major volume about the ancient Phoenicians, and written a lot of shorter things. I’ve worked on an archaeological excavation in Israel, acted as an academic guest expert on a popular TV show for one episode, toiled away for a summer before college in an aluminum foundry, lived in a village in Tanzania for three months, wrote my doctoral dissertation as a stay-at-home dad to an infant, co-hosted a nationally recognized podcast, and tried and failed to summit Mt. Hood several times. My wife and I live with our two daughters in gorgeous wine country just outside of Portland, OR.