Max Page is a proper name shared by several notable individuals, most prominently an American architectural historian, educator, and labor union leader, as well as a young American actor. This entry covers the most widely documented figures bearing this name.
Max Page — Architectural Historian and Educator
Max Page is an American architectural historian, professor, and public education activist. He is best known for his academic work on the built environment and for serving as president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA).
Education: Page earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University in 1988 (magna cum laude), attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1991, and completed a Ph.D. in History at the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.
Academic career: He began his academic career as an assistant professor of history and director of the Heritage Preservation Program at Georgia State University (1996–1999). He then served as a visiting professor of history at Yale University (1999–2001) before joining the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he has been a professor of architecture and history since 2001. He also directs the Master of Design in Historic Preservation Program at UMass. He has served as a Leverhulme Visiting Research Professor at the University of Nottingham (1998–1999).
Major publications: Page is the author of The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900–1940 (University of Chicago Press, 1999), which won the Spiro Kostof Award from the Society of Architectural Historians in 2001. He has also edited volumes including Building the Nation: American Writers Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape (with Steven Conn, 2003) and Giving Preservation a History: Essays on the History of Historic Preservation in the United States (with Randall Mason, 2003). His subsequent work The City's End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York's Destruction was published by Yale University Press. He has contributed to publications including the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, and the Journal of Urban History. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2003–2004.
Union leadership: Page was president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors, his local union at UMass, from 2006 to 2009. He served as vice president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association and was elected president of the MTA in May 2022 and re-elected in April 2024. The MTA represents approximately 117,000 education workers across Massachusetts. Under his leadership, the MTA has advocated for increased public higher education funding, progressive taxation (including the Fair Share Amendment), opposition to high-stakes standardized testing such as MCAS, and climate-focused "Green New Deal" policies in schools. He is a resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, and is married to Eve Weinbaum, an associate professor at UMass Amherst who also served as president of the Massachusetts Society of Professors.
Max Page — Actor (The Young and the Restless)
Max Page (born October 7, 2004, in California) is an American former child actor. He is known for his portrayal of Reed Hellstrom on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless. He also appeared in the television series Prime Suspect (2011), The Bridge, and the Disney Channel series I Didn't Do It. He gained early fame for appearing as a miniature Darth Vader in a widely viewed Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial. Page was born with the congenital heart defect tetralogy of Fallot, which has required multiple surgeries. He is the son of Buck and Jennifer Page and has a sibling named Ellison.
Max Page — Actor (Texarkana)
A separate individual named Max Page (born April 22, 2005, in Texarkana, Texas) is an American actor known for appearances in Prime Suspect and the television film Full-Dress. Additional details about this actor's career are limited.
Note: The name "Max Page" is not a single unified concept but rather a name shared by multiple distinct public figures. No single definition applies across all contexts, and the intended referent typically depends on the domain (academia, labor advocacy, or entertainment) in which the name appears.
