Jason Hansen

Professor, History

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Originally from Charleston, SC, Dr. Hansen has lived in many parts of the country as well as spending significant time living in Germany, France, Spain and Croatia. After completing his PhD he spent a year teaching at Western Washington University in Bellingham, before coming to Furman in Fall 2011.

Dr. Hansen started a podcast called "History Off the Page" in 2021. It features episodes on Modern European and Israeli-Palestinian history. You can find it on all major streaming services, or via his personal website: https://www.historyoffthepage.com/

Honors

  • Newberry Library Nebenzahl lecturer (Fall 2019) 
  • US Fulbright Scholar: Croatia (Spring 2019)

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • B.A., Syracuse University

Research

  • German history, history of nationalism
  • History of sport, especially soccer
  • Podcasting

Dr. Hansen is now working on a documentary about the History of Soccer at Furman, as well as an article on history and memory related to the Croatian town of Škabrnja.

Publications

  • “Cartographies of Victimhood. Envisioning the German Nation After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919.” In Peter Nekola, ed. Redrawing the World: 1919 and the History of Cartoraphy(Chicago University Press, forthcoming).
  • "Russia Wants War! Cartographic Productions of Victimhood from Napoleon III to Ukraine," Imago Mundi, Vol 76 (1), 37-57.
  • “The Forgotten Front: Serbia, Memory and World War I” in Rob McCormick, Araceli Hernandez-Laroche and Catherine Canino, Distant Fronts: An International Rediscovery of World War One (UK Routledge Press, 2021).
  • “Land of Lincoln: the Teaching of an Historical Icon at the University of Illinois, 2009.” American Studies Journal: Lincoln in Europe 60 (2016). Web.
  • Mapping the Germans: Statistical Science, Cartography and the Visualization of the German Nation, 1848-1914 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).

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