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Edwina Hagen is an Assistant Professor of Cultural History and Chair of the Programme Committee. She teaches courses at BA and MA level on Early Modern European History, Cultural History, Revolutions and History of Emotions. She also teaches at the Amsterdam University College. In this context she designed History Lab, a form of practical and immersive learning on location. During the 2024 edition students investigated the archives of the Holland Land Company at the Amsterdam City Archives
Office hours: on Monday, or contact her via email (her work days are Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday).
Hagen's qualitative and biographical approach focuses on the interplay between culture and politics. She is an expert of the revolutionary period in the Netherlands (1780-1815). In a broader sense, her research explores (the historical problem of) individual agency, as evidenced by people’s changing practices, emotions and attitudes toward power and political authority. Her work highlights in- and exclusionary processes that are at play in the creation of political subjects, reinforced by religion (antipapism related to civic virtues and national identity) and changing cultural norms about gender and (political) emotions. Articles and chapters by Hagen on cultural political topics such as reputation politics, emotional self-fashioning, character assasination or the ways in which eighteenth century women exercised informal power, have been published in peer reviewed journals and books as well as in popular historical magazines. Hagen is inspired by a diverse range of historical material, particularly personal letters, political print culture and (auto)biographies.
Hagen’s PhD on Dutch Enlightened and Protestant Anti-Papism around 1800 received national coverage by the Dutch press and was praised by historians as ‘an exemplary dissertation’ (Professor Emeritus G.J. Schutte) and ‘Darntonian’ (Professor Emeritus A.W.F.M. van de Sande). In 2012 her Libris History Prize nominated political biography on the statesman Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825) and his wife Catharina Nahuys (1770-1844) attracted nation-wide media attention. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte, received the first copy.
Hagen recently interviewed British professor Marisa Linton about her life and work: Revolutionary politicians were more than an ideology on legs
Together with Martijn Icks (UvA) Hagen co-edited a Special Issue of the Dutch Journal of History (Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, 2021, jrg 134, no.2): Character Assassination and Media https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/00407518/134/2
Hagen is currently working on several article and book projects, which include:
Hagen is also sometimes consulted by the media for expert views in relation to her research topics:
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https://www.npostart.nl/de-strijd-om-het-binnenhof/29-01-2021/VPWON_1309353
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Since 2013: Board Member of the Stichting (Foundation) Daendels (website: stichtingdaendels.nl)
Publicist: Historica. Tijdschrift voor Gendergeschiedenis & Geschiedenis Magazine
Cultural and Religious History, PhD, University of Amsterdam
Award Date: 23 Sept 2008
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Professional
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic
Research output: Contribution to Conference › Paper › Academic
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Professional
Edwina Hagen (Participant)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Edwina Hagen (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Societal
Edwina Hagen (Organiser), Martijn Icks (Organiser) & Alessandro Nai (Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Conference › Academic
Edwina Hagen (Examiner)
Activity: PhD thesis Examination › PhD thesis examination
Edwina Hagen (Speaker)
Activity: Lecture / Presentation › Popular
20/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Edwina Hagen & Marisa Linton
1/10/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Research
2/09/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment