Susan Hanson (geographer)
Susan E. Hanson | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 31, 1943 |
| Alma mater | Middlebury College Northwestern University |
| Occupation(s) | Professor of urban geography, author |
| Years active | 1972- |
| Employer | Clark University |
| Organization(s) | National Academy of Sciences (2000) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2000) Transportation Research Board Division Committee chair |
| Notable work | Geography, Gender, and the Workaday World. Hettner Lectures. Volume 6. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. (2003) |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship 1989 American Association for the Advancement of Science fellow in 1991 Van Cleef Memorial Medal 1999[1] 2015 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography[2] Lifetime Achievement Honors in 2003[3] |
Susan E. Hanson (born March 31, 1943) is an American geographer. She is a Distinguished University Professor Emerita in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University. Her research has focused on gender and work, travel patterns, and feminist scholarly approaches.
Education
Hanson studied as an undergraduate at Middlebury College between 1960 and 1964, subsequently working with the Peace Corps in Kenya. She studied for a PhD in Geography at Northwestern University between 1967 and 1973,[4] moving to Uppsala, Sweden with her husband and two young children in 1970 to conduct research for her dissertation.[5] In Uppsala, she found a data file that allowed her to sample the population and conduct the Uppsala Household Travel Survey.[6]
Career
Hanson was awarded
Hanson has published extensively throughout her career, writing and editing books, and by 2010 had contributed more than 70 journal articles, and many chapters in books.[4]
Victoria Lawson has argued that Hanson's career "is an empowering example of a collage of woven-together life experiences, substantive research interests, feminist values and progressive professional practices".[7] In 2010, Marianna Pavlovskaya wrote that Hanson "is one of the most accomplished academics in U.S. geography today".[4]
Honors and awards
Hanson was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989,[8] was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1991,[9] and in 1999 received the Van Cleef Memorial Medal from the American Geographical Society, a medal conferred on scholars in the field of urban geography.[10] In 2000, she became the first female geographer to be elected to both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4]
At the 2008 Association of American Geographers conference, three panels were dedicated to honouring her contribution to the discipline, and five of the papers presented were subsequently published as a themed section of an issue of
She is the chair of the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Division Committee, representing TRB as an ex officio member on the NRC Governing Board.[12]
Selected publications
Books
- Hanson, Susan; Giuliano, Genevieve, eds. (2017) [1986]. The geography of urban transportation (4th ed.). New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-59385-055-5.
- Hanson, Susan; Pratt, Geraldine (1995). Gender, work, and space. London: Routledge. ISBN 1-59385-055-7.
- Hanson, Susan, ed. (1997). Ten geographic ideas that changed the world. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2356-7.
- Hanson, Susan (2003). Geography, Gender, and the Workaday World. Hettner Lectures. Vol. 6. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 9783515083690.
- Hanson, Susan; ISBN 9780754627036.
- Aoyama, Yuko; Murphy, James T; Hanson, Susan (2011). Key Concepts in Economic Geography. London: Sage. ISBN 9781847878953.
Articles
- .
- Hanson, Susan; Pratt, Geraldine (1988). "Reconceptualizing the Links Between Home and Work in Urban Geography". Economic Geography. 64 (4): 299–321. JSTOR 144230.
- Hanson, Susan; Pratt, Geraldine (1991). "Job Search and the Occupational Segregation of Women". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 81 (2): 229–253. .
- Pratt, Geraldine; Hanson, Susan (1994). "Geography and the construction of difference". Gender, Place & Culture. 1 (1): 5–29. .
References
- ^ "Can Cleef Memorial Medal Recipients". American Geographical Society. Retrieved November 27, 2023.
- ^ a b c "Clark's Professor Hanson Honored for Creativity in Geography". GoLocalWorcester. December 15, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ a b "Honors of the American Association of Geographers". American Association of Geographers. Retrieved August 12, 2016.
- ^ ISBN 9781412956970.
- .
- JSTOR 490959. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
- S2CID 143746648.
- ^ "Susan Hanson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved August 13, 2016.
- ^ "SUSAN HANSON". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on September 17, 2016. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
- ^ "Van Cleef Memorial Medal". American Geographical Society. Retrieved August 14, 2016.
- S2CID 143563522.
- ^ "Executive Office | About TRB". www.trb.org. Retrieved February 2, 2020.
