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Biography

Dr. Hague is a professor of Modern European history with a special interest in Britain and British imperialism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.  His research has focused on architecture, material culture, and social mobility in the British world, and he has published widely in these areas.  His current book project, provisionally entitled ‘Act Like Britain’: Politics, Culture, and Aesthetics in Greater Britain, 1868-1968, explores Britain’s continued great power status into the post-World War II period by examining how architects, designers, and collectors employed the past to create and maintain an Anglo-world cultural identity that perpetuated British influence. The book adopts a cultural history approach to help answer questions about power relationships most often posed by political and economic historians by looking at the intersection of culture, historical memory, politics and the construction of the idea of 'Greater Britain' in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. He received his B.A. in history from Binghamton University in New York, an M.A. from the University of Virginia, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University.   

Courses Taught:  

Dr. Hague teaches both halves of the Western Civilization survey course, as well as upper-level courses in British and imperial history, imperialism and colonialism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history, Historical Methods, and the capstone Senior Seminar on the topic of "The 'Special Relationship'?: Anglo-American Relations since 1775."

Expertise:

British history, society, and politics, British Empire, imperialism and colonialism, modern Europe.