Rushika Hage

Job titles

• Adjunct Instructor of History
  History, Philosophy, and Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences
  Associate of Arts (A.A.) College of Adult and Professional Studies

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Adjunct Instructor of History

Started at Bethel

2015

Education

• College of St. Benedict - B.A. in History, 1993
• University of California - M.A. in Medieval History, 1997

Biography

Rushika Hage graduated from the College of St. Benedict with a B.A. in History and UCSD with a Master’s in History. She is currently an affiliate professor in the Department of History at Bethel University teaching in the Humanities and History programs. There she developed a seminar about the history of mapmaking from the earliest maps to Google maps. Her article “The Island Book of Henricus Martellus: Charting Lands Known and Unknown,” won the James Ford Bell Library Research Prize, received honorable mention for the Ristow Prize and was published in Portolan. She has also written two books on the history and architecture of Nicollet Island with her husband, Nicollet Island: History and Architecture through Nodin Press and Nicollet Island in the Images of America series through Arcadia publishing. She has given numerous presentations on Nicollet Island and these books. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate and the University of Minnesota and is working on a dissertation entitled Remembered Glory, the Canepa Portolan: A Study of Genoese Trade which explores the 1489 portolan chart of the Genoese mapmaker Albinus Canepa. Her interest in mapmaking dates to college when her mother gave her Peter Whitfield’s The Charting of the Oceans and said, “I hear you’re getting into maps.”