BIO
Joshua Hagen joined the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point as dean of the College of Letters and Science in 2020. Hagen previously served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, from 2016 to 2020, and prior to that, as chair of the Department of Geography at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where he was also a professor of geography since 2003. He taught a range of classes and has maintained an active record of scholarly publications and conference presentations. He has received research grants and awards from numerous organizations, including the German Academic Exchange Service, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright Scholar Program and Gerda Henkel Foundation. Hagen was awarded Marshall University’s Distinguished Artists and Scholars Award as the Senior Faculty in Arts, Business, Education, Humanities and Social Sciences in 2013-2014. He earned doctoral and master’s degrees in geography from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and completed a bachelor’s degree in geography and political science from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Hagen enjoys cooking, running, hiking, biking, snowshoeing, kayaking, camping, fishing and most anything outdoors.
PUBLICATIONS
Hagen, Joshua, Historic Preservation in Nazi Germany: Spaces, Places, and Landscapes of Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, under contract).
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, eds., Oxford Intersections: Borders (Oxford: online edition, Oxford Academic, 2025-present). https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/61655
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, Borders: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024).
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, eds., Invisible Borders in a Bordered World: Power, Mobility, and Belonging (London: Routledge, 2023), including:
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Geographies of Visibility and Invisibility: Strategies of Spatial Control and Differentiation,” 1-17.
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Bordering the South China Sea: Maritime Claims, Contested Sovereignty, and Novel Territorialities Diener,” 82-104.
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Invisible Borders into the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Research Agenda for Invisibility,” 265-272.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, The Power of Place in Place Attachment (London: Taylor & Francis, 2023); reprint of special issue Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen, eds., “The Power of Place in Place Attachment,” Geographical Review 112, no. 1 (2020).
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Geographies of Place Attachment: A Place-Based Model of Materiality, Performance, and Narration,” Geographical Review 112, no. 1 (2022): 171-186.
Hagen, Joshua, “Places of Memory, Historic Preservation, and Place Attachment in Nazi Germany,” Geographical Review 112, no. 1 (2022): 147-170.
Hagen, Joshua, “Geographies of Totalitarianism in Village, Town, and Countryside: Architecture, Landscape Design, and Spatial Planning in Nazi Germany,” in Spatializing Authoritarianism, ed. Natalie Koch. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2022), 61-84.
Hagen, Joshua, “Creating a Capital for National Socialism: Sacred Spaces and Places of Power in Hitler’s Berlin,” Memoria e Ricerca 30, no. 2 (2022): 305-324.
Hagen, Joshua, “The City as a Composition: Working through Geographies of Memory, Identity, and Belonging,” in The Politics of Spatial Transgressions in the Arts, eds. Greg Blair and Noa Bronstein (Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), 67-85.
Hagen, Joshua, and Robert C. Ostergren, Building Nazi Germany: Place, Space, Architecture, and Ideology (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Border Control as a Technology of Social Control,” in The Handbook of Social Control, ed. Mathieu Deflem (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019), 403-415.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, eds., The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019)., including:
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “The City as Palimpsest: Narrating National Identity through Urban Space and Place,” 1-22.
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “The City as Crucible: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity into the Twenty-First Century,” 253-263.
Hagen, Joshua, “Historic Preservation in Nazi Germany: Practices, Patterns, and Politics,” in Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity, ed. Glenn Hooper (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018), 56-71.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “The Political Sociology and Political Geography of Borders” in Sage Handbook of Political Sociology, eds. William Outhwaite and Stephen P. Turner (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2018), 330-346.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Changing Modalities of Power in the Twenty-First Century,” in Border Politics: Defining Spaces of Governance and Forms of Transgression, eds. Cengiz Günay and Nina Witjes (New York: Springer, 2017), 15-32.
Hagen, Joshua, “Places of Memory and Memories of Places in Nazi Germany,” in Memory, Place and Identity: Commemoration and Remembrance of War and Conflict, eds. Danielle Drozdzewski, Sarah De Nardi, and Emma Waterton (London: Routledge, 2016), 236-254.
Hagen, Joshua, “Revisiting Pork Spending, Place Names, and Political Stature in West Virginia,” PAST: The International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture 39 (2016): 38-45.
Hagen, Joshua, “Wie Rothenburg das Kleinod der deutschen Vergangenheit geworden ist,” in Rothenburg ob der Tauber: Geschichte der Stadt und ihres Umlandes, eds. Horst F. Rupp and Karl Borchardt (Darmstadt: Theiss, 2016), 559-576.
Hagen, Joshua, “Social Engineering, National Demography, and Political Economy in Nazi Germany: Gottfried Feder and His New Town Concept,” in Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich, eds. Claudio Minca and Paolo Giaccaria (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016), 218-240.
Hagen, Joshua, “Shaping Public Opinion through Architecture and Urban Design: Perspectives on Ludwig I and His Building Program for a ‘New Munich’,” Central European History 48, no. 1 (2015): 4-30.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities: Cultural Politics of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Identity in Eurasia (London: Routledge, 2015); reprint of special issue Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen, eds., “From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities: Narrating the Nation through Urban Space,” Nationalities Papers, 41:4 (2013).
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “From Socialist to Post-Socialist Cities: Narrating the Nation through Urban Space,” Nationalities Papers, 41, no. 4 (2013): 487-514.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “City of Felt and Concrete: Negotiating Cultural Hybridity in Mongolia’s Capital of Ulaanbaatar,” Nationalities Papers 41, no. 4 (2013): 622-650.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, Borders: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
- Japanese translation with a new preface: 境界から世界を見る――ボーダースタディーズ入門, trans. by Fuminori Kawakubo (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten Publishers, 2015).
- Korean translation, 경계들: 보더 스터디즈 입문, trans. by Lim Kyunghwa, et al. (Seoul: Somyong Publishing, 2022).
- Thai translation, Borders: ชายแดน ฉบับกระชับ, trans. by Thanachate Wisaijorn (Bangkok: Illuminations Editions, 2024).
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Geopolitics of the Kaliningrad Exclave and Enclave: Russian and EU Perspectives,” Eurasian Geography and Economics 52, no. 4 (2011): 567-592.
Hagen, Joshua, “Theorizing Scale in Critical Place-Name Studies,” Acme: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 10, no. 1 (2011): 23-27.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, eds., Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010), including:
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Introduction: Borders, Identity, and Geopolitics,” 1-14.
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Kaliningrad, Russia: Discontinuity as a Threat to Sovereignty,” 121-137.
- Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Conclusion: Borders in a Changing Global Context,” 189-194.
Hagen, Joshua, “Architecture, Symbolism, and Function: The Nazi Party’s ‘Forum of the Movement’,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 28, no. 3 (2010): 397-424.
Hagen, Joshua, “Mapping the Polish Corridor: Ethnicity, Economics and Geopolitics,” Imago Mundi: The International Journal of the History of Cartography 62, no. 1 (2010): 63-82.
Diener, Alexander C., and Joshua Hagen, “Theorizing Borders in a ‘Borderless World’: Globalization, Territory, and Identity,” Geography Compass 3, no. 3 (2009): 1196-1216.
Hagen, Joshua, “Historic Preservation in Nazi Germany: Place, Memory, and Nationalism,” Journal of Historical Geography 35, no. 4 (2009): 690-715.
Hagen, Joshua, “Architecture, Urban Planning, and Political Authority in Ludwig I’s Munich,” Journal of Urban History 35, no. 4 (2009): 459-485.
Hagen, Joshua, “Parades, Public Spaces, and Propaganda: The Nazi Culture Parades in Munich,” Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography 90, no. 4 (2008): 349-367.
Hagen, Joshua, “‘Pork’ Spending, Place Names, and Political Stature in West Virginia,” Southeastern Geographer 47, no. 2 (2007): 341-364.
Hagen, Joshua, Preservation, Tourism, and Nationalism: The Jewel of the German Past (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006).
Hagen, Joshua, and Robert C. Ostergren, “Architecture, Spectacle, and Place during the Nuremberg Party Rallies: Projecting a Nazi Vision of Past, Present, and Future,” cultural geographies 13, no. 1 (2006): 1-25.
Hagen, Joshua, “Rebuilding the Middle Ages after the Second World War: The Cultural Politics of Reconstruction in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany,” Journal of Historical Geography 31, no. 1 (2005): 94-112.
Hagen, Joshua, “The Most German of Towns: Creating an Ideal Nazi Community in Rothenburg ob der Tauber,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94, no. 1 (2004): 207-227.
German translation, “Die deutscheste aller Städte: Wie in Rothenburg eine nationalsozialistische Idealstadt geschaffen wurde,” Die Linde: Beilage zum Fränkischen Anzeiger für Geschichte und Heimatkunde von Rothenburg/Tbr. Stadt + Land, trans. by Richard Schmitt (2007): 1-16.
Hagen, Joshua, “Redrawing the Imagined Map of Europe: The Rise and Fall of the ‘Center’,” Political Geography 22, no. 5 (2003): 489-517.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Borders and border theory
- Cultural politics of place names
- Demography, economics, and sustainability
- Geographies of the pre-modern world
- Globalization, sovereignty, and territoriality
- Historic preservation and places of memory
- Nationalism and homelands
- Urban design and public space