Joyce Ann Hanson

Joyce Hanson received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1997. In 1996, she won a Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Grant in Women's Studies for her dissertation work, which was published by The University of Missouri Press in Spring 2003 under the title Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Political Activism. Professor Hanson has recently completed a biography of Rosa Parks as well as history of Community Hospital of San Bernardino with co-authors Suzie Earp and Erin Shanks. Professor Hanson joined the history department at California State University, San Bernardino in 1998 where she teaches African American History, Women's History, and 20th Century U.S. History classes.