

KAREN NUCLEAR TIME ARCHIVE
"A Great Way to Teach." HistoryMakers Digital Archive Newsletter May, 2020 Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. "Reservation Borderlands: Gender and Scandinavian Land Taking on Native American Land." Swedish-American Borderlands: New Histories of Transatlantic Relations. University of California-Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award Gertrude Jaeger Prize, Most Outstanding Graduate Student Essay Written by a Woman in Sociology, University of California, Berkeley Woodrow Wilson Research Grant in Women's Stuides National Endowment for Humanities (summer) Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard Universityīunting Institute Fellow, Radcliffe College Marver and Sheva Bernstein Faculty FellowshipĪndrew W. Murray Research Center, Radcliffe College Norwegian Royal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Emigration Fund of 1975 National Endowment for Humanities Fellowship Goode Book Award, Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association, Family Sectionĭean of Arts and Sciences Mentoring Award for outstanding mentoring of students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciencesįinalist, C.Wright Mills Award for Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of CareĪssociate Senior Researcher, Berkeley Center for Working Families, University of California, Berkeley John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Visiting Scholar, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard Universityįellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard Universityįaculty Scholar, Student-Scholar Partnership Program Gita Chaudhuri Prize, Western Association of Women Historiansįulbright "Distinguished Chair in American Studies," Uppsala University, Swedenįinalist, Great Plains Distinguished Book Award Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy, Doctorem Philosophiae Honoris Causa, University of Southern Denmarkīook of the Month, Center for Great Plains StudiesĪssociate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska Grand Challenges: Voices for Economic Opportunity Grant, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation & Raikes Foundation Hansen’s most recent book, Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930, won the 2016 Gita Chaudhuri Book Prize from the Western Association of Women Historians. Professor Hansen asks how – well before Title IX and other policy interventions – adults and youth created a culture of involvement, respectful inquiry, and mutual responsibility that forged lasting relationships between students and faculty across lines of race and ethnicity, long after the school itself closed. In the 1960s and early 1970s, as communities across the country violently and vociferously resisted school integration, the multiracial student body and racially diversifying staff of Sunnyvale High School reduced violence, nurtured student leaders, improved academics, and increased girls’ access to sports. In another project, Learning and Teacher Leadership in a California High School, Professor Hansen studies the successful resurgence of a struggling, multiracial, working-class high school during a period of heightened interracial tensions. They will also harness the capacity of young people to change public opinions to develop effective strategies to disseminate the stories to their peers. As an alternative approach, they are conducting life history interviews with those from diverse backgrounds who have experienced an economic shock to assess their personal, familial, and neighborhood settings their emotions and key events and how they relate to their economic circumstances.

However, most studies on social mobility focus on a specific moment in time. Economic and social status often flows unevenly over a lifetime.

Together with her Co-PI, Nazli Kibria of Boston University, they are exploring the process of falling from a particular social location in ways that precipitate additional declines. The project, “Cascading Lives: Stories of Loss, Resilience and Resistance,” has just been awarded funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with the Raikes Foundation. Hansen is leading a collaborative investigation of downward mobility.
