About

Professor Christopher Long studied at the universities of Graz, Munich, and Vienna. He received his doctoral degree at The University of Texas at Austin in 1993. He first taught at the Central European University in Prague before returning to UT Austin. Professor Long has also taught at Vysoká škola uměleckoprůmyslová v Praze (Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Prague), in the Department of Architectural History and Criticism, and at Technische Universität Wien (Vienna Technical University), in the Department of Architectural Theory. Trained as a cultural historian, Professor Long’s scholarly approach draws from cultural and intellectual history, as well as social history and cultural anthropology. His dissertation was a study of the Viennese architect and designer Josef Frank. Since that time, he has written extensively on various aspects of Central European modernism. He has also published monographs on several notable Central European émigré architects and designers in the United States.

Research topics

• Mechanics
• Physics
• Mathematics
• Geometry
• Engineering
• Thermodynamics
• Materials science
• Statistics

Selected publications

• The construction of Eurocentric universals: recognition, property and the dynamic force of the negative

  International Relations · 2026-03-28

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  The decolonising effort within International Relations takes as a core concern the political implications and effects of Eurocentric universals that have positioned the global north as the privileged site of modernity and given rise to binary distinctions. This article asks: how are the universals of Eurocentrism constructed? To answer this question it investigates the notion of exclusive property ownership in the colonial context. Drawing from Hegelian recognition theory it argues that such a notion, was constructed via an essentially contested process of inter-subjective mediation and conflict within the modern European state. Such a process has at its core the dynamic and creative force of the negative as not-self/not-I or other in and through which our experience develops and shared norms and universals are constructed. The negative reveals the fundamental openness of our political experience and takes its place as a vital tool for critical thinking and theorising within International Relations.

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• Analysis of Heat Transfer Within Buoyancy Dominated Rotating Cavities of High-Pressure Compressors

  Journal of Turbomachinery · 2025-06-04

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  Abstract A detailed knowledge of the flow structure and the heat transfer within blade-disc cavities is required for designing safe and efficient aero-engine compressors with a useful operating range. This article presents the results from temperature field measurements obtained from the Multiple Cavity test facility at the University of Sussex. This emulates part of the secondary air system in an aircraft engine high-pressure compressor. It comprises four externally heated disc cavities and is supplied by a cool bore flow. The heat transfer is studied with the help of a finite-element method using measured temperatures as boundary conditions. A validated 2D steady-state heat conduction analysis methodology is presented. Results are presented for a range of values of Rossby number, rotational and axial Reynolds numbers, and the buoyancy parameter. The curve-fit type that is best suited for the temperature boundary condition specification is established using an independent ansys parametric design language-based study. The sensitivity of the overall cavity heat transfer to major driving mechanisms has been described. The Monte Carlo analysis is used to reveal how a ±0.5 K uncertainty in temperature affected the Nu estimation.

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• The Processes of Social Nature: Sovereignty in the Anthropocene

  Millennium Journal of International Studies · 2025-02-01

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  How can we understand sovereignty in the Anthropocene? This new climatic regime ushers in a range of challenges to traditional notions of sovereignty in International Relations including declarations of ultimate state territorial control over an ‘inert’ natural world. To answer this question, this article draws from work on the deep interconnections between humans and the natural world termed social nature. It argues that these interconnections have given rise to new sovereign governing practices that are limited to the back loop of environmental systems where politics is reorganised into unexpected combinations in order to respond to crises. To address this limitation, this article draws from Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and the process-based ontology set out within it to extend, via the domain of physics, the interconnections within social nature to the growth and generation found within the front loop of environmental systems. The sovereign productive power of these interconnections is demonstrated in terms of the continual generative processes that they give rise to and that link all things in the biosphere. This includes the development of human beings as complex organisms with reason, self-consciousness and political thought. The result is a conceptualisation of sovereignty in terms of the processes of social nature.

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• The Evolution of the What Is Happening in This Class (WIHIC) Questionnaire: A Scoping Review

  2025-01-01

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• Review: <i>Malý Berlín ve Velké Praze: Pražská meziválečná architektura německy mluvících architektů / Klein-Berlin in Groß-Prag: Die Prager Architektur deutschsprachiger Architekten in der Zwischenkriegszeit and Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia</i>

  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 2025-05-20

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• Review: <i>Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California</i>

  Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians · 2024-06-01

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  Book Review| June 01 2024 Review: Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California Todd Cronan. Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023, 400 pp., 18 color and 147 b/w illus. $160 (cloth), ISBN 9781517915193; $39.95 (paper), ISBN 9781517915209 Christopher Long Christopher Long University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (2): 244–246. https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.244 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Christopher Long; Review: Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 June 2024; 83 (2): 244–246. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2024.83.2.244 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In our time, the term "California Modern" has become a watchword—a style, a design ethos, a shorthand descriptor for midcentury modern, and, still more, an evocation of a state of mind and a way of living. Like many labels, it is often tossed off as settled and complete, a closed and consummated story. Todd Cronan's brilliant rereading of modern California architecture, Nothing Permanent, is anything but a glib response to the question of what "California Modern" is, how it came about (primarily in Los Angeles, it should be noted), or what it might mean. Cronan has not written a history as such, and many key players involved in the rise of the new building in California do not appear in his account. Most of this longish book is about four figures: R. M. Schindler, Richard Neutra, and Charles and Ray Eames. Other significant architects, such as Gregory Ain, Craig... You do not currently have access to this content.

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• Compressor Disc Cavity Simulations

  2024-12-02

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• Actual and Preferred Learning Environments in Science Methods Classes as Perceived by Different Ethnicities

  2024-01-01

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• Investigating Changes to First-Generation Students’ Visual Thinking and Learning (Poster 11)

  2024-01-01

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• Investigating Changes to First-Generation Students’ Visual Thinking and Learning (Poster 11)

  2024-01-01 · 1 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Peter Childs

  Imperial College London

  24 shared

• J. Michael Owen

  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

  11 shared

• Daniel Coren

  9 shared

• Alan B. Turner

  University of Aberdeen

  9 shared

• Nicholas R. Atkins

  University of Cambridge

  6 shared

• Seyed Mostafa Fazeli

  University of Sussex

  6 shared

• Daniel Eastwood

  5 shared

• A. Alexiou

  National Technical University of Athens

  5 shared

Awards & honors

• American Collegiates Schools of Architecture Distinguished P…
• Honorary Doctorate at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and…