Algis Mickūnas, PhD

Algis Mickūnas is a prolific scholar, earning a B.S. in engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology (1955-58), a B.A. and an M.A. in Classical Philosophy at DePaul University (1958-63), an M.A. in Contemporary European Philosophies at Cologne University (1963-64) and Freiburg University (1964-65), an M.A. in the Philosophy of Language at the University of Chicago (1965-66), and a PhD in Modern Philosophy from Emory University (1966-69). He has published over 400 articles in five languages, has authored, co-authored, and co-edited over 50 books in philosophy, social and political theory, and communication. Further, Dr. Mickunas has established several international scholarly organizations, including The Husserl Circle, The Merleau-Ponty Circle, the Japan-West Phenomenology Consortium, and the International Jean Gebser Society for the Study of Comparative Civilization.

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In 1983, he formed the International Gebser Society, which studies the history and transformations of consciousness. In 1996, Dr. Mickūnas and Professor Hiroshi Kojima of Niigata University, Japan, established the Japan-West Consortium of Scholars to discuss West-East thought. In 1999, Dr. Mickūnas and Professor Bienvenido Argueta established a program of conferences focused on the study of globalization at the Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

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On November 14, 2007, he was awarded an “outstanding foreign contributor to humanities and social sciences in Lithuania” prize by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. In 2008, he was appointed to the Lithuanian Academy of Science. Additionally, Dr. Mickūnas has received four honorary doctor degrees, has been awarded “Knight of the Cross” by the president of Lithuania (2017), and has been awarded “Laureate Fellow” status by the International Communicology Institute (2017).