Karen Hanson

Karen Hanson is the Provost (education) of the Bloomington campus of Indiana University and one of two Executive Vice Presidents of the university. [Osterman, Zachary (2007-07-05) Dean of the Honors College to become next IU provost. http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=43591&comview=1 The Indiana Daily Student.] She is the first Provost of the Bloomington campus, succeeding Michael A. McRobbie, who was named Interim Provost when the Indiana University Board of Trustees created the position in 2006. [ [http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/newsitem.asp?id=16444 IU Outlines Aggressive Agenda For Future - Newsroom - Inside INdiana Business with Gerry Dick ] ] Earlier, Hanson was Dean of Indiana University's Hutton Honors College and chair of the Department of Philosophy at Indiana University. Hanson is a Rudy Professor of Philosophy at IU [ [http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/list.html Member List for Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors ] ] and has been a member of the university's Department of Philosophy since 1976. She has had numerous leadership roles in the American Philosophical Association, including a term as Chair of the Board. Hanson earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard in 1980.

Hanson is the author of "The Self Imagined: Philosophical Reflections on the Social Character of Psyche" and a co-editor with Kenneth R. Johnston, Gilbert Chaitin and Herbert Marks of the book "Romantic Revolutions: Criticism and Theory." Hanson has been a member of the editorial board of the "American Philosophical Quarterly" and associate editor of the "Journal of Social Philosophy." She is currently a member of the editorial boards of "Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews" and "Cognitio" and a member of both the advisory and the editorial boards of the Peirce Edition Project [. [http://www.iupui.edu/~peirce/] ] Hanson is an Officer of the Board of the John Dewey Foundation.

Hanson received a Lilly Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship and numerous teaching awards, including the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching Award. [ [http://www.facet.iupui.edu/index.html Welcome to FACET ] ]

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Indiana University Bloomington Office of the Provost [http://www.iub.edu/provost/]