About

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Raised between northern California and western Montana, Delia Hagen received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley, her M.A. from the University of Texas, and her A.B. from Dartmouth College. She works as an historian in diverse capacities, combining academic research, writing and teaching with public history consulting.  In the process, she explores the history of the North American West through in-depth interdisciplinary scholarship on subjects ranging from global structural processes like settler colonialism to local developments at single historic sites.

Dr. Hagen’s “innovative and exhaustive work” has won awards across the spectrum of historical practice. These include academic awards for teaching, research, and writing, as well as awards from public history, architecture, and historic preservation organizations, among them the National Council on Public History—which has twice awarded Hagen its Excellence in Consulting Award, “recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of public history." In 2025, she is in residence in Cassis, France as a fellow of the Camargo Foundation, which awards its international residency fellowship to "artists, scholars, and thinkers . . . as part of its mission to support groundbreaking research, experimentation, and interdisciplinary approaches in the Arts and Humanities."
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