Christopher Long – Christopher P. Long

A tree branch frames a view of a sandy beach with gentle waves and rocky outcrops under a clear blue sky. The ocean stretches to the horizon in the background.

Civic Life The Long Road

Hope in a Time of Fear

Christopher LongApril 30, 2026

Two dolphins leap out of ocean waves near the shoreline on a sunny day, with white foam trailing behind them and distant buildings visible along the coast.

Education The Long Road

In the Wake of Disruption a New Reality is Possible

Christopher LongMarch 29, 2026

Athletes competing in the women’s 10,000 metres race at the 2022 World Athletics Championships at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.

Academic The Long Road

Efforts to Turn This Disruptive Present into a Better Future

Christopher LongFebruary 12, 2026

The entangled roots of a large tree with red leaves on the ground. The roots point to the web of relationships that influence authorship, shape collaboration, and enrich scholarship.

Education The Long Road

Love, Complexity, and Interconnection: the Heart of University Life

Christopher LongJanuary 31, 2026

Sunset over the distant snow-capped mountains of Sisters and Mt. Batchelor in Oregon with orange and yellow sky, dark forest in the middle ground, and the dry grassy hillside of Pine Mountain in the foreground.

Education Living The Long Road

Learning to be at Home in the World

Christopher LongOctober 3, 2025

A group of sixteen adults, diverse in age and gender, pose together outside on a wooden deck in front of a building with large windows and trees reflected in the glass. All are smiling at the camera.

We Focused on Hope and Candor and Collaboration

Christopher LongAugust 18, 2025

A diverse group of people pose together on indoor steps, smiling and holding up peace signs, or "V" signs for VELI. Some stand, while others kneel or sit. The background shows a modern interior with wood accents and metal railings.

Education Initiatives

Integrity as an Expression of Value Enacted Excellence

Christopher LongJuly 27, 2025

A group of nine adults sit around a red outdoor table at a café, smiling at the camera. The table has drinks, mugs, and condiments, and the setting is sunny with greenery and other diners in the background.

Academic Initiatives

Welcome to the Inaugural Values Enacted Leadership Institute

Christopher LongJuly 14, 2025

Corrections in a manuscript

Articles Education The Long Road

As Federal Funding for Research Breaks Down, New Possibilities Emerge

Christopher LongJune 25, 2025

Provost Long in academic regalia, including a black cap with a yellow tassel, speaks at a podium during a graduation ceremony.

Presentations The Long Road

The University is the Beating Heart of a Free Society

Christopher LongJune 14, 2025

Academic Education The Long Road

The Public Research University and the Hope of Democracy

Christopher LongJune 7, 2025

Provost Long with six University of Oregon leaders in advising in business attire smile for a group selfie in a meeting room with large windows, trees and water outside. Sticky notes cover part of the window, and a blank flip chart stands nearby.

Wholeheartedness in a Time of Fear and Uncertainty

Christopher LongMay 17, 2025

Rapids on the Willamette River fill the frame of this image, taken from the South side of the river, looking North with evergreens and blue skies and wispy clouds in the background.

Finding New Modes of Communicating as Provost

Christopher LongApril 26, 2025

James Baldwin in a black suit with tie and a white shirt looks directly at us.

The Hideously Difficult Task Before Us

Christopher LongDecember 27, 2024

The view from Spencer's Butte above Eugene, Oregon. A grassy pathway leads to a bank of pine trees in the middle distance. Beyond the trees and far below lies Eugene, OR. In the distance are mountains, the blue sky filled with gray and white clouds.

A Pivotal Week in the Life of the Provost’s Office

Christopher LongAugust 20, 2024

$Looking up from the ground through the tall Redwoods of the Cathedral Grove in Muir Woods in California. The sky is seen refracted through the branches of the enormous redwoods.$

A Touchstone Poem for Leadership by John O’Donohue

Christopher LongJune 1, 2024

BillHD makes a gesture to a whiteboard off camera. He is sitting around a table with people listening to the point he is making. Sonja is watching Bill with her hand to her face, thinking.

A Letter to Bill Hart-Davidson

Christopher LongMay 3, 2024

$Looking up from the ground through the tall Redwoods of the Cathedral Grove in Muir Woods in California. The sky is seen refracted through the branches of the enormous redwoods.$

Using Obsidian Notes to Create Context and Connection for Meaningful Productivity

Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2024

A wooden gate framed by two columns of beige brick covered by green vines with red blossoms opens onto a tiered garden with a birdbath in the center. Off in the distance beyond the garden there are trees in full autumn folliage. The path leading to the bird bath is lined with purple flowers on this sunny November day in the Dumbarton Oaks gardens.

Initiatives The Long Road

Coalition for the Future Academy

Christopher LongJanuary 18, 2024

A diverse group of people of wide-ranging ages stand in a courtyard in front of a colorful mural of Grace Lee and James Boggs with young people. A young Grace Lee Boggs is in yellow, holding a megaphone to her mouth. Jimmie Boggs, on the right, is in a dark jacket, hands folded in front of me, listening. There is a diverse group of young people between them.

Ubuntu, Drawing, and A Pilgrimage to the Boggs Center

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2023

A selfie with Chris Long in academic regalia to the right of Dr. Anthony Fauci in the Breslin Center before the 2023 MSU Doctoral graduation ceremony. The wall behind them has a Spartan helmet and images of Spartan Basketball players in action.

Education The Long Road

Joy and the Gift of Education

Christopher LongMay 6, 2023

In the foreground in focus are white values cards with black letters laying on a dark wooden table with words like "Support for Failure," "Holistic," "Accessibility,"Excellence," "Appreciation," written on them. We read the cards upside-down as we look down the table, our perspective at table-level looking toward a woman in a black mask leaning over a computer pointing to something as participants around the table look toward the laptop on the table. The laptop and the people are out of focus at the depth of field is short and the focus is on the cards nearest us on the table.

Finding the Values in Committee Work

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2023

A dark wooden desktop has a bouquet of orange, white, and green flowers in a glass cylindrical vase on the left. In the middle is a multi-colored glass trophy in a double helix style on a black base on which the words are inscribed: "Michigan State University Institutional Champion Award for Community Engagement Scholarship Presented to Christopher P. Long, College of Arts and Letters and Honors College 2023." To the right, there is a small lavender bag of lavender with a yellow AAAS button on it. Blurred in the background on the right is an Apple MacBook Pro, the arm of a desk light and behind the trophy and flower are four fountain pens, a journal and a notepad.

Championing Community Engagement at the Heart of the Land-Grant Mission

Christopher LongMarch 4, 2023

The Spartan Rock, painted white, with a green Spartan helmet, on the left and "Always a Spartan" painted on the front. The names of Brian Fraser, Arielle Anderson, and Alexandria Verner, are written in green letters along the bottom. In front of the rock are piles of flowers and a green and white Spartans Will flag laying on mulch front and center of the image. There are three crosses with hearts and fish symbols to the right of the rock.

Education Living The Long Road

When Twilight Silence Falls

Christopher LongFebruary 18, 2023

The entangled roots of a large tree with red leaves on the ground. The roots point to the web of relationships that influence authorship, shape collaboration, and enrich scholarship.

Living The Long Road

A Nightmare and A Dream

Christopher LongFebruary 12, 2023

This is an allegorical image. Against a beige background is the front of a building with pillars in slightly darker beige. Layered on top is a white image of the head, elongated neck, shoulders and upper torso of a person. The head is turned to the right with the outline of hair in a bun. Green, plant-like shapes grow behind the torso, in front of the building. A red heart-shaped heart is superimposed on the chest area of the torso. Three lines extend from the heart each connected to a beige rectangle. The rectangle on the left is almost square, with an icon of an open book in black. On the top right is a rectangle with a line graph with a single line going down and up. Middle right is a rectangle with black musical notes beginning with a treble clef. Five stylized human figures are in the foreground. Moving left to right, a Black woman with wavy black hair in a light pink sweater and dark pants with a red briefcase walks toward the heart. Sitting on the shoulder of the torso is a white woman with brown hair in a light brown top and brown pants reading a red book. There is a white man with brown hair in a white lab coat holding a clipboard in front of the heart. To his right is an Asian woman with shoulder length black hair with a stethoscope in a light brown top and dark brown pants listening to the heart. On the right is a Black man in a pink shirt and light brown pants and a dark brown pork pie hat. He has a conductor's baton and is pointing to the musical notes.

Wholeness in a Torn World

Christopher LongFebruary 5, 2023

Two people sit in gray chairs with dark wooden legs on a small stage with wooden floors. There is a round coffee table made of dark and light wood between them on which is a microphone with a pop filter, papers to which the speakers are referring, and two bottles of water. Amy DeRogatis is on the left, speaking and smiling slightly as she looks down at her paper and talks into the microphone. On the right is Isaac Weiner, grinning broadly as if laughing. On the left of the stage is a fake white tree with cotton "snow" underneath and white lights on the branches. The wall behind the stage is white, broken up with gray/blue squares of fabric designed to dampen the sound. The microphone is attached by a wire that goes to an amplifier that is just visible on the right, behind Isaac. There is a blue light coming out of the bottom of the amplifier.

What Does Religion Sound Like?

Christopher LongJanuary 28, 2023

The Frederick Douglas statue on the University of Maryland campus depicts, as wikipedia puts it, "Douglass in the middle of a speech, with one arm outstretched, and a copy of his autobiography under the other arm." His mouth is open in a fiery speech. The statue is cast bronze on a black marble block with white text chiseled on front reading Frederick Douglas 1818-1895, on the side, white text is legible that reads: Abolitionist, Suffragist, Labor Leader. The figure is set off to the right of the image with a band of long, wheat colored grasses in the middle background, with three windows of the red brick colonial style building in the distant background.

Education The Long Road

The Intentional Work of Values-Enacted Change

Christopher LongJanuary 22, 2023

Selfie on stage at the Kellogg Center after the 43rd MLK Dinner at which LeConté Dill gave the keynote. The selfie is taken by Chris Long, who is on the left, with, from left to right, Ruth Nicole Brown, LeConté Dill, Chamara Kwakye, Gianina Strother, and Yvonne Morris. In the background are rows of empty round tables with white tablecloths and black chairs around them.

Power, Love, Justice, and Joy

Christopher LongJanuary 14, 2023

A page from Christopher P. Long's journal, illustrating his daily writing practice. Brown ink on dot grid paper, with a Sailor Realo pen out of focus on lying on the page. The word "Listen" is underlined and legible in his small cursive handwriting. Much of the text on the page is not legible.

Return to Blogging

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2023

The group is gathered around Queen Cherice Harrison-Nelson who is on the right, with Toni Gordon leaning in next to her, Ural Grant on her right, Jessica Reed next to Ural, and in the back, Sharieka Botex and Marquis Taylor. They are in a conference room where the presentation on prioritizing joy in graduate education was given.

Education Living

Ubuntu As Leadership Practice

Christopher LongDecember 30, 2022

African and African American Studies students standing in a row, from left to right: Amber McAddley, Morgan Braswell, Jhala Martin, and Ayodele Uhuru. They are listening to Jhala read from a piece of paper with a microphone in her hand. Photo by Ryan Frederick.

A Place of Wholeness

Christopher LongNovember 21, 2022

Waves of water caused by drops of water

Education The Long Road

Toward a More Just and Beautiful Future

Christopher LongAugust 16, 2022

Richard Bernstein, in a black turtleneck, hands folded, with chairs, out of focus, in the background. Bernstein was a champion of democracy and democratic values.

Education The Long Road

Bernstein and the Future of Democracy

Christopher LongJuly 16, 2022

Field of wild flowers

Values-Enacted Leadership

Christopher LongMarch 20, 2022

The entangled roots of a large tree with red leaves on the ground. The roots point to the web of relationships that influence authorship, shape collaboration, and enrich scholarship.

Enacting Values of Co-Authorship

Christopher LongMarch 9, 2022

Linton Hall at MSU

Revolutionary Dean

Christopher LongFebruary 25, 2022

Ted Loder looking to his right with a joyful smile on his face, with Jan Filing, his wife looking on from behind and out of focus.

Living The Long Road

The Art of Procrastination

Christopher LongSeptember 14, 2021

Questions for the Class of 2025

To the Class of 2025: Let Us Begin Again Together

Christopher LongAugust 31, 2021

Ted Loder making a point, and pointing his finger. Joy on his face.

Living The Long Road

Love One Another

Christopher LongApril 4, 2021

Red Cedar River in Winter, white snow covers the trees on both sides of the river which is beginning to ice over from the banks.

From Productivity to Meaningful Work

Christopher LongApril 2, 2021

"Hora Quasi Umbra" text on a Sundial

Imagining a Different Future

Christopher LongMarch 8, 2021

Compass with directions in the foreground with a distant and unfocused image of the White House in the distance.

Civic Life The Long Road

The Promise and Perils of Democracy

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2021

Group fo Faculty

The Transformative Power of Values-Enacted Scholarship

Christopher LongDecember 19, 2020

On Ethical Candor

Christopher LongNovember 28, 2020

American Flags lined up against a yellow building

Register to Vote

Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2020

Scales and weights

Presentations The Long Road

Indicators of Excellence in the Liberal Arts

Christopher LongSeptember 15, 2020

Header of MSU campus in the fall.

To the Class of 2024: Embarking on an Education for Action

Christopher LongAugust 31, 2020

James Baldwin - "I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."

Open Letter to Our College of Arts & Letters Community

Christopher LongJune 5, 2020

Original HuMetrics Team sitting outside on a patio at the Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill, NC. From left to right is Jason Rhody, Nicky Agate, Chris Long (sitting in the back), Rebecca Kennison, Stacy Konkiel (standing in the back), and Simo Sacchi.

Syllabus as Locus of Intervention and Impact

Christopher LongMay 28, 2020

To the Class of 2020

Christopher LongMay 7, 2020

Field of wild flowers

Deepening Connection in a Time of Distancing

Christopher LongApril 29, 2020

"Hora Quasi Umbra" text on a Sundial

No Quality Without Equity

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2019

Aerial view of the center of MSU campus with intersecting pathways and trees.

Catalyst of Collaboration

Christopher LongOctober 7, 2019

Dean Long with a photo of himself

To the Class of 2023: Embrace the Adventure

Christopher LongAugust 27, 2019

Saint Aubin Park

Presentations The Long Road

The Transformative Power of Publishing

Christopher LongAugust 5, 2019

A grove of pine trees, looking up from ground level, with evening twilight in the background.

Less Commonly Taught and Indigenous Languages the Focus of $2.5 Million Grant

Christopher LongJuly 25, 2019

Connected Ropes

Toward a Culture of Care

Christopher LongApril 24, 2019

Recognizing Peer Review

Christopher LongMarch 13, 2019

Teal Ribbon on a Tree

Failures to Listen

Christopher LongJanuary 24, 2019

Survivors names painted on the MSU Rock

Open Letter Regarding MSU Interim President Transition

Christopher LongJanuary 17, 2019

Linton Hall Through A Glass Ball

Living Values

Christopher LongNovember 30, 2018

Six Images of Resilience

2018 Dean’s Report – Resilience

Christopher LongNovember 16, 2018

Pittsburgh Bridges 2009

AGLS Keynote – Practicing the Arts of Liberty

Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2018

Red Cedar

Bonomi, Rothman, and a Human Rights Approach to Sexual Misconduct in Higher Education

Christopher LongSeptember 4, 2018

Original Seal of the Michigan Agriculture College

To the Class of 2022: MSU is an Open Door

Christopher LongAugust 28, 2018

The Seal of the Association of American Universities

Digital Scholarship

A Few Reflections on the TOME Initiative

Christopher LongJuly 31, 2018

Pollock Murals

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: Thick Collegiality and General Education

Christopher LongJuly 26, 2018

Lower Falls From Grand View

Presentations Vita

Toxicity, Metrics, and Academic Life

Christopher LongJune 27, 2018

Figueroa and Butler

ADFL Plenary Panel: International Digital Public Humanities

Christopher LongJune 2, 2018

Linton Hall

Open Letter to College of Arts & Letters Alumni and Friends

Christopher LongMay 24, 2018

Practicing Public Philosophy

Christopher LongApril 23, 2018

Sunset from Waco Bridge

Creating and Sustaining Digital Scholarly Communities

Christopher LongApril 19, 2018

Tree Roots

Cultivating a Culture of Trust

Christopher LongApril 12, 2018

Pollock Murals

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: A New General Education

Christopher LongFebruary 28, 2018

The Red Cedar River

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters

Christopher LongJanuary 25, 2018

College of Arts & Letters Blueprint

Life’s Blueprints: Designing the Structure of Our Professional Lives

Christopher LongJanuary 15, 2018

A toy platypus and books about the history of MSU

Digital Scholarship The Long Road

Humanities Commons and the Cultivation of Sustainable Communities

Christopher LongNovember 29, 2017

Weaving Loom

Practices of Weaving: Arts & Letters at MSU

Christopher LongNovember 14, 2017

View of the earth from space

Practicing Gratitude

Christopher LongOctober 24, 2017

Richard Bernstein in a black turtleneck.

Pragmatism and the Cultivation of Digital Democracies

Christopher LongSeptember 16, 2017

To the Class of 2021: Be Resilient, Like a Tree

Christopher LongAugust 25, 2017

Red Cedar

The Emergence of Our Vision: Public Education Rooted in the Liberal Arts

Christopher LongJuly 19, 2017

shelves of antique books

Creating Humane Metrics for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2017

The Liberal Arts at the Heart of the MSU Land Grant Mission

Christopher LongJune 26, 2017

Living The Long Road

Beware the Jabberwocks

Christopher LongMay 23, 2017

To Teach and Delight

Christopher LongApril 14, 2017

Pollock Murals

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: The Arts of Liberty in a Time of Uncertainty

Christopher LongMarch 19, 2017

The White House

Civic Life Education The Long Road

“…No Arts; No Letters; No Society…”

Christopher LongMarch 17, 2017

Paths Outside of Linton Hall

Charting a Path to Intellectual Leadership, then Following It

Christopher LongMarch 14, 2017

Reiner Schürmann: Care of Death

Christopher LongMarch 11, 2017

Open Letter on the Executive Order on Immigration

Christopher LongJanuary 30, 2017

Barack Obama Campaign Rally in PA 2008

Civic Life LwCH The Long Road

Mature Leadership: On Bending the Arc

Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2017

Between Beginning and Routine

Christopher LongJanuary 15, 2017

Seal of Michigan State College

Open Letter to the College of Arts & Letters

Christopher LongNovember 12, 2016

Black and white abstracted image of layers of circles and squares

Critical Diversity in a Digital Age

Christopher LongOctober 31, 2016

Bianchi’s the Feminine Symptom – A Response

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2016

The Liberal Arts Endeavor: On Editing the Journal of General Education

Christopher LongOctober 19, 2016

Digital Scholarship Education

Nurturing Fulfilling Scholarly Lives

Christopher LongOctober 14, 2016

Keyboard Keys C and V

Digital Scholarship The Long Road Vita

Bringing Your CV to Life

Christopher LongSeptember 30, 2016