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Joshua Hagen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
HH 207
(304) 696-2505
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Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003)
Dissertation Title: "The Jewel of the German Past: Historical Preservation, Tourism, and National Identity in Rothenburg ob der Tauber."

I spent most of my childhood in Iowa, although I spent several years living in California and Wyoming. After graduating from high school, I attended the University of Northern Iowa. I majored in Geography and Political Science and decided I wanted to pursue a career in education. I entered the Geography graduate program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While completing my Masters degree (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) at Wisconsin, most of my course work focused on European topics.

After graduate school, I joined the Geography Department at Marshall University. While at Marshall, I have researched and written on a variety of topics in human geography, including historical preservation and places of memory; geographies of national identity and territoriality; architecture, urban design, and political authority; and European and American geopolitical thought. In total, I have spent about two years living and researching in Germany (Aachen, Berlin, Bonn, Munich, Nuremberg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber). During these stays in Germany, I have been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit many other places in Europe. My personal favorite places to visit in Europe are southern Bavaria and northern Italy.

Teaching responsibilities include (click for sample syllabus):

Publications include:

  • 2007 "Pork" Spending, Place Names, and Political Stature in West Virginia. Southeastern Geographer 47:2, 341-364.
  • 2006 Preservation, Tourism, and Nationalism: Rothenburg as the Jewel of the German Past. Ashgate Publishing: Aldershot, United Kingdom.
  • 2006 with R. Ostergren. Architecture, Spectacle, and Place during the Nuremberg Party Rallies: Projecting a Nazi Vision of Past, Present, and Future, Cultural Geographies 13:1, 1-25.
  • 2005 Rebuilding the Middle Ages in the Twentieth Century: Rothenburg ob der Tauber After the Second World War, Journal of Historical Geography 31:1, 94-112.
  • 2004 The Most German of Towns: Creating an Ideal Nazi Community in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94:1, 207-227.
  • 2003. Redrawing the Imagined Map of Europe: The Rise and Fall of the Center, Political Geography 22:5, 489-517.


Prof. Hagen at his creativity station

 

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