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]
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]
Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, 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]
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 Gender, Place & Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography.[11] She was awarded the 2015 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography by the American Association of Geographers,[2] which also awarded her Lifetime Achievement Honors in 2003.[3]
She served on the Transportation Research Board's (TRB) Executive Committee from 2019 - 2022, 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. ISBN978-1-59385-055-5.
Hanson, Susan; Pratt, Geraldine (1988). "Reconceptualizing the Links Between Home and Work in Urban Geography". Economic Geography. 64 (4): 299–321. doi:10.2307/144230. JSTOR144230.
Hanson, Susan; Pratt, Geraldine (1991). "Job Search and the Occupational Segregation of Women". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 81 (2): 229–253. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8306.1991.tb01688.x.
Pratt, Geraldine; Hanson, Susan (1994). "Geography and the construction of difference". Gender, Place & Culture. 1 (1): 5–29. doi:10.1080/09663699408721198.
^Mcdowell, Linda (1994). "Making a difference: Geography, feminism and everyday life — an interview with Susan Hanson". Journal of Geography in Higher Education. 18 (1): 19–32. doi:10.1080/03098269408709234.
^Lawson, Victoria (2010). "Composing our careers: Susan Hanson's contributions to geography and geographers". Gender, Place & Culture. 17 (1): 49–54. doi:10.1080/09663690903522230. S2CID143746648.
^"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.