Karen Hansen | Academic Influence

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Karen Hansen

Sociology

#1337

World Rank

#1524

Historical Rank

#516

USA Rank

Women's Studies

#35

World Rank

#39

Historical Rank

#23

USA Rank

Gender Studies

#40

World Rank

#40

Historical Rank

#11

USA Rank

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Sociology

Karen Hansen's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Karen V. Hansen is an American author and professor of sociology and women's and gender studies at Brandeis University. Her books include Encounter on the Great Plains and Not-So-Nuclear Families. Biography Hansen was born in Chico, California, and received her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.

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Karen Hansen's Published Works

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Published Works

Not-So-Nuclear Families: Class, Gender, and Networks of Care (2004) (64)
U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays. (1997) (61)
A Very Social Time: Crafting Community in Antebellum New England. (1994) (48)
The Asking Rules of Reciprocity in Networks of Care for Children (2004) (32)
At the Heart of Work and Family: Engaging the Ideas of Arlie Hochschild (2011) (32)
‘No Kisses Is Like Youres’: An Erotic Friendship between Two African‐American Women during the Mid‐Nineteenth Century (1995) (30)
Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics (1998) (26)
Care and Kinship (2002) (19)
Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 (2013) (14)
Surveying the dead informant: Quantitative analysis and historical interpretation (1995) (8)
Feminist Conceptions of Public and Private: A Critical Analisys (1987) (8)
At the Heart of Work and Family (2019) (7)
Sociability and Gendered Spheres (2001) (6)
Community, Expression of (2001) (5)
Staging reciprocity and mobilizing networks in working families (2002) (4)
“HELPED PUT IN A QUILT:” (1989) (4)
Historical Sociology and the Prism of Biography: Lillian Wineman and the Trade in Dakota Beadwork, 1893–1929 (1999) (3)
MAPPING THE DISPOSSESSION: SCANDINAVIAN HOMESTEADING AT FORT TOTTEN, 1900-1930 (2008) (3)
Immigrants as settler colonists: boundary work between Dakota Indians and white immigrant settlers (2017) (3)
Care Work: Gender, Labor, and the Welfare State. Edited by Madonna Harrington Meyer. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xii+348. (2001) (2)
Introduction: An Eye on Emotion in the Study of Families and Work (2019) (1)
Class Contingencies in Networks of Care for School-Aged Children (2001) (1)
Landowning, Dispossession and the Significance of Land among Dakota and Scandinavian Women at Spirit Lake, 1900–29 (2014) (1)
Fighting the Sky and Working the Land (2013) (0)
Chapter 8. The Asking Rules of Reciprocity (2019) (0)
The Reservation Land Rush: Allotment and Land Taking (2013) (0)
Reservation Borderlands: (2021) (0)
Spirit Lake Transformed: The Nexus of Schooling, Language, and Trade (2013) (0)
Sociability and Gendered Spheres: Visiting Patterns in Nineteenth-Century New England (2001) (0)
The overworked American, Chapter two (1997) (0)
Entangled Encounters, Land-Taking, and the Oral Archive: Notes from the Field (2017) (0)
A Fragile Hold on the Land (2013) (0)
Conclusion: Strangers No More (2013) (0)
Was Life a Pic Nick (1995) (0)
A Very Social Time (2023) (0)
Indians Never Knocked: Fear Frames the Encounter (2013) (0)
Introduction: Illuminating the Encounter (2013) (0)
Gendered entanglements: Dakotas and Scandinavians at Spirit Lake, 1900–1930 (2017) (0)
Intimacies of racialization: Everyday citizenship among Dakota Indians and Scandinavian immigrants (2015) (0)
Marking Nations, Reservation Boundaries, and Racial-Ethnic Hierarchies (2013) (0)
Divergent Paths to Racialized Citizenship (2013) (0)
The Scandinavian Flood: Land Hunger, Dislocation, and Settlement (2013) (0)
Index to Gender & Society (2006) (0)
2. "I Never Forget What I Remember": Delving into Antebellum New England (1994) (0)
"Land Was One of the Greatest Gifts": Women's Landownership in Dakota Indian, Immigrant Scandinavian, and African American Communities (2018) (0)

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