Mark Long

Mark Long

Professor of Political Science and Curator at Large and Faculty Liaison at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

Education:
Ph.D. University of South Carolina
M.A. and B.A. National University of Ireland, Cork

Research Interests:

Trained in universities in Ireland, Spain and the US, I am a political geographer and a Europeanist, and I have always been interested in how we experience and make sense of places, close to home and worldwide. To do that I have focused in my research on how landscapes reflect our culture, through media from landscape photography to cartoons to street art; and pedagogically through place-based courses and by leading semester-long and summer study abroad programs. In my work as a curator, I have curated shows of landscape photography from Antarctica to Afghanistan to the American West by award-winning American and international artists.

Selected Publications

  • Long, M. 2024. “South Carolina’s American Christmas” in Moody, P. Christmas parades of South Carolina Columbia: USC Press.
  • Long, M. and J.L. Hathaway. 2023. “Boone Lake, TN, 2015” Southern Cultures 29[2]:112-113.
  • Long, M. 2021. “Picturing the Flag in the New South” Landscape Research 46[2]:226-245.
  • Hathaway, J. L. and M. Long. 2021. “Latter-Day Paradises in the Cherokee National Forest” Southern Cultures 27[2]:134-149.
  • Israel, Y. and M. Long. 2020. (eds.) South West Jerusalem Newspaper Jerusalem: Black Box 97 Jaffa Street Gallery.
  • Sloan, M. and M. Long. 2018. (eds.) Southbound – Photographs of and about the New South Charleston: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Arts

Honors and Awards

  • Furthermore’s Alice Award for Southbound – Photographs of and about the New South
  • National Endowment for the Arts; SC Arts Commission; Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation for Southbound – Photographs of and about the New South