Dr. Debra L. Hansen

Professor

A SLIS faculty member since 1989, Dr. Debra Hansen currently teaches in the areas of archives, oral history, history of books and libraries, and information and society. She earned an MLIS from UCLA in 1983 and her doctorate in 1988 from the University of California, Irvine, where she specialized in 19th century American social and women's history. Dr. Hansen's research lies at the intersection of history and library science, focusing on the professionalization and feminization of librarianship in the West. Her scholarship has been published in Libraries and Culture, Library Trends and other LIS and history periodicals as well as in edited anthologies and historical encyclopedias.

Courses Taught

Education

Ph.D.(History) University of California, Irvine (1988)
MLIS University of California, Los Angeles, California (1983)
MA (History) California State University, Fullerton (1979)
BA (History) California State University, Fullerton (1975)

Academic & Professional Experience

Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, San José, California (2004-)
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, San José, California (1998-2004)
Associate Director, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, San José, California (1995-2000)
Assistant Professor, School of Library and Information Science, San José State University, San José, California (1989-1998)
Instructor, Department of History, California State University, Fullerton, California (1990)
Curator, Anaheim History Archives, Anaheim Public Library, Anaheim, California (1989-1990)
History Bibliographer/Reference Librarian, Honnold Library, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California (1984-1989)
Editor/Indexer, Chinese American Oral History Project, Asian American Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California (1982-1983)
Editor/Indexer, Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton, California (1975-1979)

Selected Publications (last five years only)

For other publications/presentations, see Professional Activities PDF above.

Journal Articles

Hansen, D. (2004, Spring). Professionalizing library education, the California connection: James Gillis, Everett Perry, and Joseph Daniels. Library Trends, 52(4), 963-987.
Hansen, D. (2000, Spring). A lion in the hennery: Charles F. Lummis and the Los Angeles Public Library, 1905-1910. Vitae Scholasticae, 10, 5-33.
Hansen, D., Gracy, K. & Irvin, S. (1999, Fall). At the pleasure of the board: Women librarians and the Los Angeles Public Library. Libraries & Culture 34, 311-346.

Book Reviews

Hansen, D. (2006, September). Review of the book Sister societies: Women's antislavery organizations in antebellum America. Journal of American History, 93(2).
Hansen, D. (2001, January). Review of the book Women and reform in a New England community on H-SHEAR [Society for the History of the Early Republic].
Hansen, D. (1999, June). Review of the book The great silent army of abolitionism: Ordinary women in the antislavery movement. New England Quarterly. 72, 330-333.

Encyclopedia Entries

Hansen, D. (2006). Libraries and the immigrant in the American West. In G. M. Bakken & Alexandra Kindell, Encyclopedia of immigration and migration in the American west. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications.
Hansen, D. (2004). Virginia Haviland, librarian, author, critic. In S. Ware (Ed.), Notable American women: A biographical dictionary, volume 5, 1976-2000. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Hansen, D. (2003). Clubs (women's) in the west. In G.M. Bakken & B. Farrington (Eds.), Encyclopedia of women in the American west. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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