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Dr. Max Long is a Research Fellow in History at Jesus College, University of Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of History. His research specializes in 20th-century British history, focusing on intersections between mass media, science, and environmental perceptions.
- BA, University of Oxford
- MPhil and PhD in Modern British History, University of Cambridge
- William Alexander Fleet Fellowship, Princeton University
Research spans interwar media’s role in reshaping public environmental attitudes, agricultural knowledge circulation in the British Empire, and digital history methodologies. He co-organizes the Modern British History Reading Group and leads Secrets of Nature, an interactive digital archive of 1920s-30s natural history films.
Key publications (2020-2024) analyze BBC radio, Shell Chemicals’ visual campaigns, and gendered labor in naturalist media. Articles highlight media as co-producers of scientific knowledge and cultural responses to environmental crises. Future work includes a book on agrilogistics and a global narcolepsy history.
- William T. Stearn Essay Prize, Society for the History of Natural History
- Runner-up, Royal Historical Society’s Alexander Prize
- Wolfson Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship
- DAAD & Isaac Newton Trust grants
Teaching includes undergraduate papers on 19th-20th-century Britain, MPhil options on labor-environment relations in the Empire, and digital history workshops. He also contributes to public history through consultancy for film/TV projects.
