My primary research interest is in the history of recent intellectual developments in the fields of ecology, systematics, and evolutionary biology.
I am also interested in educational research directed toward developing new approaches to teaching and learning biology at the college level.
Joel B. Hagen, "Teaching Ecology during the Environmental Age, 1965-1980," Environmental History 13 (2008): 675-694.
Joel B. Hagen, "Frederic Edward Clements," New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007.
Joel B. Hagen, "Warder Clyde Allee," New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007.
Joel B. Hagen, "Eugene Pleasants Odum," New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007.
Joel B. Hagen, "Howard Thomas Odum," New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2007.
Joel B. Hagen, "Descended from Darwin? George Gaylord Simpson, Morris Goodman, and Primate Systematics," in: Joe Cain and Michael Ruse (eds.) Descended from Darwin: Insights into American Evolutionary Studies (in press).
Joel Hagen, "The Statistical Frame of Mind in Systematic Biology from Quantitative Zoology to Biometry," Journal of the History of Biology 36 (2003): 353-384.
Charles Kugler, Joel Hagen, and Fred Singer, "Promoting Statistical Thinking in Science Courses," Journal of College Science Teaching 32 (2003): 434-439.
Joel B. Hagen, "Retelling Experiments: H.B.D. Kettlewell's Studies of Industrial Melanism in Peppered Moths," in: Janet Giltrow (ed.) Academic Reading: Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines, 2nd ed., Broadview Press, 2002 (originally published in Biology & Philosophy 14 (1999): 39-54).
Fred Singer, Joel B. Hagen, and Robert R. Sheehy, "The Comparative Method, Hypothesis Testing, and Phylogenetic Analysis: An Introductory Laboratory," The American Biology Teacher 63 (2001): 518 - 523.
Joel B. Hagen, "The Introduction of Computers into Systematic Research in the United States during the 1960s," Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 32 (2001): 291-314.
Joel B. Hagen, "The Origins of Bioinformatics," Nature Reviews Genetics 1 (2000): 231-236.
Joel B. Hagen, "Naturalists, Molecular Biologists, and the Challenges of Molecular Evolution," Journal of the History of Biology 32 (1999): 321-341.
Joel Hagen, Douglas Allchin, and Fred Singer, Doing Biology, HarperCollins College Publishers, 1996.
Joel B. Hagen, An Entangled Bank: The Origins of Ecosystem Ecology, Rutgers University Press, 1992.
Here is a list of my earlier articles.
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