Karen Hanson currently the Provost of the Bloomington campus of Indiana University and one of two Executive Vice Presidents of the university,[1] has been named the senior vice president and provost of the University of Minnesota.[2]
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.[3] 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[4] 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[5] 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.[6]