S USAN HANSON Profesora Emérita de la Universidad de Clark, en Boston, Massachusetts.

Geógrafa urbana con intereses en género y economía, el transporte, los mercados de trabajo locales y la sostenibilidad. Susan Hanson es una de las más conocidas geógrafas en los EE.UU. Se graduó de la escuela de Geografía de Clark. Actualmente es Directora de la Escuela de Geografía de Clark en Boston, cargo que ha ocupado desde Fue Presidenta de la Asociación de Geógrafos Americanos en el año

Susan Hanson recibió su Ph.D. de la Universidad Northwestern (1973). Antes de ir a la universidad, ella era voluntaria del Cuerpo de Paz en Kenia ( ).

Ha sido editora de cuatro revistas de Geografía : Urban Geography, Economic Geography, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and The Professional Geographer. Actualmente es miembro de los consejos editoriales de varias revistas, incluyendo Environmental and Planning, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science; and The Professional Geographer.

P UBLICACIONES Yuko Aoyama, James Murphy, and Susan Hanson Key Concepts in Economic Geography. Sage.

Susan Hanson and Genevieve Giuliano (eds) The Geography of Urban Transportation, 3rd Edition. New York: Guilford Press.

Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt Gender, Work, and Space. N.Y.: Routledge.

Susan Hanson (ed.), Ten Geographic Ideas that Changed the World. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. (Korean translation, 2001)

Susan Hanson (ed.) The Geography of Urban Transportation, Second Edition. New York: Guilford Press. Susan Hanson, Geography, Gender, and the Workaday World: Hettner Lectures # 6. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag Susan Hanson and Mei-Po Kwan (eds) Transportation. London: Ashgate.

ARTÍCULOS Ha publicado más de 70 artículos en revistas. Susan Hanson and Elaine Murakami Women in Transportation: Improving the Outlook. Public Roads March/April: Susan Hanson Gender and mobility: New approaches for informing sustainability. Gender, Place, and Culture 17 (1): Susan Hanson Changing places through women’s entrepreneurship. Economic Geography 85 (3): Susan Hanson and Megan Blake Gender and entrepreneurial networks. Regional Studies 43 (1):

Megan Blake and Susan Hanson Rethinking innovation: Context and gender. Environment and Planning A 37: Marianna Pavlovskaya and Susan Hanson, Privatization of the urban fabric: gender and local geographies of transition in downtown Moscow, Urban Geography, 22(1): Susan Hanson, The social construction of models: Recent developments in transportation and land use models. Documents d'Analisi Geografica, 35:

o Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt, Spatial Dimensions of the Gender Division of Labor in a Local Labor Market, Urban Geography, 9 (2): o Geraldine Pratt and Susan Hanson, Gender, Class, and Space. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 6: o Susan Hanson and Perry Hanson, The Impact of Married Women's Employment on Household Travel Patterns, Transportation, Vol. 10, pp o Susan Hanson and Perry Hanson, Gender and Urban Activity Patterns in Uppsala, Sweden, Geographical Review, Vol. 70, pp

Susan Hanson, Is feminist geography relevant? Scottish Geographical Journal. 115(2): Geraldine Pratt and Susan Hanson, Geography and the Construction of Difference. Gender, Place, and Culture. 1: Susan Hanson and Geraldine Pratt, Geographic Perspectives on the Occupational Segregation of Women. National Geographic Research, 6: Susan Hanson and Perry Hanson, Problems in Integrating Bicycle Travel into the Urban Transportation Planning Process, Transportation Research Record #570: The Bicycle as a Transportation Mode, pp

Empezamos por escavar acepciones acerca de las distancias recorridas por hombres y mujeres y cómo es que el tamaño de ésta área geográfica es también diferente para cada uno. También se examina cuanto tiempo tardan en recorrer a su trabajo Hanson, Susan and Geraldine Pratt, "The Friction of Distance and Gendered Geographies of Employment," Gender, Work, and Space New York: Routledge, 1995, pp

Empezó haciendo investigación sobre patrones de viajes. Desarrolló en los años setentas un interés por la cuestiones de género al revisar los patrones de viaje de hombres y mujeres. «one thread of my work was an interest in multi- purpose trips and 'trip-chaining', which relates to the complexities of women's lives, to the combining of all sorts of activities in the daily time-space path” “Here we are looking at where women live vis-a-vis where the employment opportunities are and how the geographic factors of space, place and location affect the kinds of jobs that women actually get, that women are able to get.”

A PORTACIONES PARA LA COMUNIDAD GEOGRÁFICA «The National Geographic Society back in the mid- 1980s launched a big effort to revitalize geography education in schools (for 5- to 17-year-olds). That effort has been quite successful, which means that we are increasingly seeing students coming to the university who have some notion that geography is not just writing the names of mountains on blank maps”

F UENTES CONSULTADAS s/geography/hanson/hanson101.cfm 40 McDowell, Linda, “Making a difference: Geography, feminism and everyday life--an interview with Susan Hanson”. Journal of Geography in Higher Education; 1994, Vol. 18 Issue 1, p19, 14p