Susan Hanson

Career Hanson was awarded tenure at the University at Buffalo, where she worked in the geography and sociology departments between 1972 and 1980. She moved to Clark in 1981. She is a past president of the American Association of Geographers (then known as the Association of American Geographers) and has been the editor of four geography journals: Urban Geography, Economic Geography, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and The Professional Geographer. In 2010, Marianna Pavlovskaya wrote that Hanson "is one of the most accomplished academics in U.S. geography today". was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1991, 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. 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. She was awarded the 2015 Stanley Brunn Award for Creativity in Geography by the American Association of Geographers, which also awarded her Lifetime Achievement Honors in 2003.

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.

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