Mark von Hagen was an Emeritus Professor of history and global studies with a joint appointment in the School of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies and School of International Letters and Cultures in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He was also the founding director of the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement at Arizona State University.
Professor von Hagen published articles, book reviews and essays on topics ranging from historiography, civil-military relations, and nationality politics to minority and cultural history. He was the author of "Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930" (Cornell, 1990); coedited (with Catherine Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov, and Alexander Ospovat) "Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire" (Moscow, 1997); coedited (with Karen Barkey) "After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empire" (Westview, 1997); coedited (with Andreas Kappeler, Zenon Kohut and Frank Sysyn) "Culture, Nation, Identity: the Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945)" (Toronto, 2003); coedited (with Jane Burbank) "Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930" (Indiana, 2007) and "War in a European Borderlands: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918" (University of Washington Press, 2007).
Professor von Hagen was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (recently renamed to Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) in 2008, and was dean of the Philosophy Faculty with the Ukraininan Free University in Munich, Germany.
Research Interests and Selected Publications
Mark von Hagen is professor of history and global studies in the Arizona State University School of International Letters and Cultures. In 2008 von Hagen was elected President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (recently renamed to Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies). He is the author of Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: The Red Army and the Soviet Socialist State, 1917-1930 (Cornell, 1990); co-edited (with Catherine Evtuhov, Boris Gasparov, and Alexander Ospovat) Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg: Multiple Faces of the Russian Empire (Moscow, 1997); co-edited (with Karen Barkey) After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empire (Westview, 1997); co-edited (with Andreas Kappeler, Zenon Kohut and Frank Sysyn) Culture, Nation, Identity: the Ukrainian-Russian Encounter (1600-1945) (Toronto, 2003); and is coediting (with Jane Burbank) Russian Empire: Space, People, Power, 1700-1930 (Indiana, 2007); War in a European Borderlands: Occupations and Occupation Plans in Galicia and Ukraine, 1914-1918 (University of Washington Press, 2007). He has also written articles and essays on topics in historiography, civil-military relations, nationality politics and minority history, and cultural history.
Teaching Interests and Courses
von Hagen attended Georgetown University (B.S. Foreign Service), Indiana University-Bloomington (M.A., Slavic Languages and Literatures); and Stanford University (Ph.D., History and Humanities). He has also taught at Stanford University, Yale University, the Free University of Berlin, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). At Columbia University von Hagen taught Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian history.
Professional Service Activities
At Columbia he served as Associate Director and then Director of the Harriman Institute (1989-2001), the nation’s oldest university-based research and teaching center on the states and societies of post-Soviet Eurasia. In the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, he chaired the task force on review of the school’s curriculum, headed its Inter-regional Council, and served as director of the master’s program in international affairs.
von Hagen is on the editorial board of Slavic Review, Ab Imperio and Kritika. He serves (and has served) on several professional association boards (the National Council for Eurasian and East European Studies, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the Association for the Study of Nationalities, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the International Association of Ukrainian Studies). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Human Rights Watch Eurasia Steering Committee. He has served as a consultant for the Russian Archives Project of Primary Source Microfilms (Gale Group). In August 2002 von Hagen was elected President of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies (three-year term) at the Fifth Congress in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
POS 394 | Special Topics |
SGS 394 | Special Topics |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
HST 394 | Special Topics |
HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POS 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 436 | The Soviet Experiment |
HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POS 599 | Thesis |
POS 792 | Research |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 394 | Special Topics |
POS 394 | Special Topics |
SGS 394 | Special Topics |
SLC 394 | Special Topics |
HST 493 | Honors Thesis |
HST 499 | Individualized Instruction |
POS 599 | Thesis |
HST 792 | Research |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
HST 492 | Honors Directed Study |
HST 790 | Reading and Conference |
HST 799 | Dissertation |
Professional Service Activities
At Columbia he served as Associate Director and then Director of the Harriman Institute (1989-2001), the nation’s oldest university-based research and teaching center on the states and societies of post-Soviet Eurasia. In the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, he chaired the task force on review of the school’s curriculum, headed its Inter-regional Council, and served as director of the master’s program in international affairs.
von Hagen is on the editorial board of Slavic Review, Ab Imperio and Kritika. He serves (and has served) on several professional association boards (the National Council for Eurasian and East European Studies, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the Association for the Study of Nationalities, the Shevchenko Scientific Society, the International Association of Ukrainian Studies). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Human Rights Watch Eurasia Steering Committee. He has served as a consultant for the Russian Archives Project of Primary Source Microfilms (Gale Group). In August 2002 von Hagen was elected President of the International Association of Ukrainian Studies (three-year term) at the Fifth Congress in Chernivtsi, Ukraine.