Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California. She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999.

Research Interests

• Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York University - not provided
• Graduate Program in Public Policy, Administration, and Law, York University - not provided
• Graduate Program in Sociology, York University - not provided
• Visiting Fellow, Princeton University - not provided
• Visiting Scholar, University of San Francisco - not provided
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California-San Francisco - not provided
• Visiting Scholar, Mental Research Institute - not provided
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University - not provided

Approach to Teaching

I started university planning to become a lawyer. Around the time I was admitted to law school I attended a graduate course in the sociology department at the University of Toronto on holism and mental health. It grabbed me from the start. I turned down the law spot and became an academic who focused on theory instead. My MA thesis was on nursing homes and PhD on senile dementia. I started as a teacher during many years as a downhill ski instructor and honed my skills with the help of teaching resources support in my first tenure track position at the University of Waterloo. During this position I also became involved in feminist politics. I came to Atkinson College in 1991. My interest in law re-surfaced in 2001. It led me to Osgoode Hall Law School, articling for Legal Aid in Downsview, and being a practicing lawyer member of the Ontario Bar. Doing theory has led me into a number of topics, that I continue to articulate including epistemology, methodology, health, aging, gender, religion, law, and animals.

Current Courses

Upcoming Courses

Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California. She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999.

Professor Hanson has had visiting appointments at Princeton Department of Sociology, Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers, University of California San Francisco, and Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto California and University of San Francisco . She was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award in 1999, for substantial, significant and sustained excellence, commitment and enthusiasm to the multifaceted aspects of graduate teaching.

Professor Hanson has also been the Editor in Chief of International Review of Modern Sociology, and International Journal of Sociology of the Family. Her main research interests are in theory, methods, Meta-theory, epistemology, health, intimate relations, law, fat studies, religion, and gender.

Degrees

Research Interests

Awards

• Faculty of Graduate Studies Teaching Award, York University - not provided
• Graduate Program in Public Policy, Administration, and Law, York University - not provided
• Graduate Program in Sociology, York University - not provided
• Visiting Fellow, Princeton University - not provided
• Visiting Scholar, University of San Francisco - not provided
• Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California-San Francisco - not provided
• Visiting Scholar, Mental Research Institute - not provided
• Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University - not provided

Approach to Teaching

I started university planning to become a lawyer. Around the time I was admitted to law school I attended a graduate course in the sociology department at the University of Toronto on holism and mental health. It grabbed me from the start. I turned down the law spot and became an academic who focused on theory instead. My MA thesis was on nursing homes and PhD on senile dementia. I started as a teacher during many years as a downhill ski instructor and honed my skills with the help of teaching resources support in my first tenure track position at the University of Waterloo. During this position I also became involved in feminist politics. I came to Atkinson College in 1991. My interest in law re-surfaced in 2001. It led me to Osgoode Hall Law School, articling for Legal Aid in Downsview, and being a practicing lawyer member of the Ontario Bar. Doing theory has led me into a number of topics, that I continue to articulate including epistemology, methodology, health, aging, gender, religion, law, and animals.

Current Courses

Upcoming Courses