 William Hagen
Professor
E: wwhagen@ucdavis.edu
T: 530-752-0101
O: 4204 SSH
| Academic Biography | | 1970-1977 Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Davis;
1977-1981 Associate Professor of History, University of California, Davis;
1981- Professor of History, University of California, Davis;
1992-1998 Director, Center for Comparative Research in History, Society, and Culture, University of California, Davis (a graduate program in the historical social sciences, now entitled the UC Davis Center for History, Society, and Culture).
President, 1996, Conference Group for Central European History, American Historical
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| Research Interests | | in time/place terms: Modern and Early Modern Germany and Eastern Europe; also Comparative World History; in thematic and methodological terms: social history and popular culture at the level of everyday life and micro-history; nationalism and populism |
| Selected Publications | “The Moral Economy of Popular Violence: The Pogrom in Lwów, November 1918,” in Robert Blobaum, ed., Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland (Cornell UP, 2005). Translation forthcoming in Geschichte und Gesellschaft. Ordinary Prussians: Brandenburg Junkers and Villagers, 1500-1840. Cambridge University Press, 2002, awarded the Hans Rosenberg Prize of the Central European Conference Group of the American Historical Association for best north American book in German history in the two-year period 2002-3. Germans, Poles and Jews: the Nationality Conflict in the Prussian East, 1772-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1980. “Seventeenth-Century Crisis in Brandenburg: The Thirty Years’ War, the Destabilization of Serfdom, and the Rise of Absolutism.” American Historical Review, 94 (1989): 302-335. “Before the ‘Final Solution:’ Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Antisemitism in Interwar Germany and Poland.” Journal of Modern History (July, 1996): 1-31. Recipient of the Chester Penn Higby Prize for best article in the JMH in a two-year period, conferred by the Modern European History Section, American Historical Association |
| Courses Taught | | Lower division surveys of European and world history; upper-division surveys of German and east European and Balkan history; graduate courses on themes reflecting the interests sketched above. |
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