The College of Liberal and Social Sciences takes great pleasure in announcing that Dr. Euan Hague, Professor of Geography and Director of the School of Public Service, is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ 2024 Cortelyou-Lowery Award. On the recommendation of the College Awards Committee, this award is given annually to an outstanding faculty colleague who has achieved sustained excellence in the College and University. During his career at DePaul, Professor Hague has demonstrated extraordinary commitment as a scholar, teacher, and administrator.
In recognition of his achievements, Dr. Hague will be presented the Cortelyou-Lowery Award at the Autumn Quarter LAS College-Wide Meeting on Friday, September 27, 2024. The meeting convenes at 1:00 p.m. in SAC 161 and via Zoom. Dr. Hauge is scheduled to give the annual Cortelyou-Lowery Award address at approximately 2:15 p.m. Those who are not faculty or staff in LAS and are unable to attend the talk in person should RSVP to Cassidy Holechek (CHOLECHE@depaul.edu) for details on entry via Zoom.
Dr. Euan Hague
Vincent de Paul Professor of Geography
Director, School of Public Service
Euan Hague, PhD, Vincent de Paul Professor of Geography and Director of the School of Public Service (SPS), is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ 2024 Cortelyou- Lowery Award (CLA). On the recommendation of the College Awards Committee, the CLA is given annually to an outstanding faculty colleague who has demonstrated sustained excellence in LAS. In the 26 years since earning his doctorate, and 22 years after joining the faculty at DePaul University, Dr. Hague has developed an impressive reputation as a scholar, teacher, and administrator.
Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Euan completed a BS in Geography at the University of Bristol and an MA in Cultural Studies from Lancaster University, both in England. He went on to receive a PhD in Geography from Syracuse University in 1998. He taught at Staffordshire University (England) and Syracuse University before joining the faculty at DePaul in 2002 as a Visiting Assistant Professor. Euan has co-authored or co-edited three books for scholarly presses, and he’s published twenty peer-reviewed journal articles and some eighty other book chapters, booklets, essays, book reviews, and commentaries. He also curated a gallery installation and has appeared as a commentator on podcasts and Chicago radio.
The road to Euan’s reputation as an international scholar specializing in urban and cultural geography began with an interest in nationalism and national identities. In the mid-1990s, his first publications examined how the Scottish National Party (SNP) presented its perspective on what kind of place Scotland is and the intersections of ethnicity, national identity, masculinity and power in the Balkan Wars. His PhD, researched and written in the peak Braveheart years of the mid-1990s, contrasted the understanding of Scotland offered by members of the Scottish- American diaspora with residents of Scotland. A presentation at the Royal Institute of British Geographer’s annual meeting in 1999 led to a media storm and led Euan to research how white supremacist organizations in the United States employed Scotland, Scottish nationalism, and Scottish identities in their American political imaginaries. Returning to the United States in 2000, first to Syracuse and then to DePaul, he explored the relationship between “Celtic” identities and whiteness, resulting in a series of articles that culminated in Neo-Confederacy: A Critical Introduction (U of Texas P, 2008). Centering the construction and meanings of place at the heart of his scholarship, Euan has examined topics as varied as Confederate commemoration; gentrification and Chicago’s urban development; community activism in Chicago; Illinois municipal policies; and more.
Euan’s teaching has long centered on service-learning and community engagement. Partnering with the Pilsen Alliance community organization and alongside Dr. Winifred Curran, between 2004 and 2019 he taught a service learning course (GEO133) that engaged students in collecting real estate data in the Pilsen neighborhood and annually assessed the “state of gentrification” there. This course is one of fifteen he has taught at DePaul, including offerings in the Chicago Quarter and Study Abroad. Euan was recognized with an Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.
As Chair from 2009 to 2018, Euan led the Geography department through a period in which for the first time it hosted the West Lakes Regional Division Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) (2011), created the STEM-designated MA in Sustainable Urban Development (2013) with the Steans Center and the SPS, and was recognized with the AAG Award for Bachelors Program Excellence (2016). In 2018, he accepted the appointment as Director of SPS. Tireless in his service commitments, Euan has been a member of the University’s Committee on Community Engagement since its inception and was a member of the 2021-23 Task Force to Address the Vincentians' Relationship with Slavery; he also led the creation of the Student Urban Research Corps. Euan was recognized as a Society of Vincent de Paul Professor in 2016 and received the Barabara Holland Scholar-Administrator Award from the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in 2019.
Through teaching, research, and administrative leadership, across more than 25 years as a professional—almost all of those at DePaul—Dr. Euan Hague has gained recognition as a cultural and urban geographer committed to community-engaged research and teaching. The College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences is proud to present to him our highest honor, the Cortelyou-Lowery Award for Excellence for 2024.