Dr Nikolaus Hagen
Assistant Professor
Phone: +43 512 507-44028
E-mail: Nikolaus.Hagen[at]uibk.ac.at
E-mail: Nikolaus.Hagen[at]uibk.ac.at
Room no. 40615
Office hours by appointment
Research interests
- Regional history
- Austrian and European contemporary history
- National Socialism and the Holocaust
- Jewish history
- Displaced persons research
- Research into anti-Semitism
Studies and academic career
- since 06/2023 Assistant Professor, Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- since 07/2025 Research Fellow, London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
- 03/2023-05/2023 University Assistant (Postdoc)
- 2020-2023 Lecturer at the University of Teacher Education Vorarlberg
- 2021-2023 Saul Kagan Fellow in Advanced Shoah Studies, Claims Conference, New York
- 2019-2020 Research Fellow at the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Summer 2019 EHRI Fellow at the Arolsen Archives, Bad Arolsen
- 2018-2019 Assistant curator at the Jewish Museum Munich
- 2018 Doctorate (Dr phil.), University of Innsbruck
- 2014-2018 Project collaborator and lecturer at the Department of Contemporary History, University of Innsbruck
- Curatorial and academic collaboration on exhibition and research projects (e.g. Dornbirn City Museum, vorarlberg museum Bregenz, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Küefer-Martis-Huus Ruggell, Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum)
Excerpt
- Nationalsozialistische Kulturpolitik in Tirol und Vorarlberg (Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte), Innsbruck 2022.
Reviews: Zeitschrift für Kultur und Gesellschaft 11/2022; Tiroler Heimat 86 (2022); Jahrbuch des Vorarlberger Landesmuseumsvereins 164 (2022); Bayerisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde 2023; Das Historisch-Politische Buch 71:3-4 (2023); Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 42 (2024). Geschichte und Region/storia e regione 34:2 (2025)
- with Markus Nesselrodt, Philipp Strobl, Marcus Velke-Schmidt (eds.), Displaced Persons-Forschung in Deutschland und Österreich. Eine Bestandsaufnahme zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts (DigiOst 14), Berlin 2021.
Reviews: H/Soz/Kult 7 October 2022; Demokratischer Salon 2022; Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung 73:2 (2024).
- Survivor Testimonies on German-Jewish 'Mixed Marriages'. Historiography, Potentials and Challenges, in: S:I.M.O.N. 8 (2021), Issue 3, pp. 4-19. https://doi.org/10.23777/SN.0321/ART_NHAG01
- with Tobias Neuburger (ed.), Antisemitismus in der Migrationsgesellschaft. Theoretische Überlegungen, Empirische Fallbeispiele, Pädagogische Praxis, Innsbruck 2020. https://doi.org/10.15203/99106-015-4
Reviews: Wina 1/2021; Antisemitism Studies 6:2 (2022).
Functions
- Co-editor of historia.scribere
- Reviewer for Journal of Contemporary History, Austrian Academy of Sciences, S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation, Theodor Körner Fund
Memberships
- Geschichte und Region/Storia e regione
- Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgemeinschaft des Leo-Baeck-Instituts (WAG)
- Netzwerk Displaced Persons-Forschung
Awards and honours
- 2020 Saul Kagan Fellowship in Advanced Shoah Studies, Claims Conference, New York
- 2019 VWI-Fortunoff Research Fellowship, Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies/Fortunoff Video Archive For Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University
- 2018 Conny Kristel Fellowship, European Holocaust Research Infrastructure