Karen Hanson was the former Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of the University of Minnesota.
[1] She previously served as Provost of the Bloomington campus of Indiana University and Executive Vice President of IU.
She has had numerous leadership roles in the American Philosophical Association, including a term as Chair of the Board.
[4] 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.