Hansen, Karen V.

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HANSEN, Karen V.

HANSEN, Karen V. American, b. 1955. Genres: Sociology, Women's studies and issues. Career: Foote, Cone & Belding/Honig, San Francisco, CA, project director, 1980-81; URSA Institute, San Francisco, research associate, 1981-84; University of California, Berkeley, acting instructor in sociology, 1988; Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, assistant professor, 1989-95, Marver and Sheva Bernstein faculty fellow, 1993-94, associate professor of sociology, 1995-. Radcliffe College, fellow at Bunting Institute, 1991-92, visiting scholar at Henry A. Murray Research Center, 1994-96; Harvard University, Andrew W. Mellon faculty fellow in women's studies, 1991-92; National Endowment for the Humanities, 1999. Publications: A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England, 1994. EDITOR & CONTRIBUTOR: (with I. Philipson) Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader, 1990; (with A. Carey) Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics, 1998. Contributor to books. Contributor of articles and reviews to a variety of academic journals. Address: Department of Sociology, MS 071, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02454-9110, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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