Barry L. Gan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Nonviolence at St. Bonaventure University.
Barry L. Gan is author of Violence and Nonviolence: An Introduction. He is also co-editor with Robert L. Holmes of a leading anthology on nonviolence, Nonviolence in Theory and Practice, now in a third edition; and he is editor of The Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi-King Society. For two years he served as program committee chair of the oldest and largest interfaith peace group in the United States, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
He has taught at St. Bonaventure University for the past thirty-one years since receiving his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in philosophy from the University of Rochester in 1981 and 1984, respectively. Prior to that he taught high school and junior high school English for six years. He is married to Miaoli Zhang, a former trainer in microscopic photography for Olympus of China. He has a daughter who is a writer and works as School Programs Coordinator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, and he has a son recently graduated from college.