Susan B. Hansen
Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Susan B. Hansen received her Ph. D. from Stanford University in 1972. Since 1980 she has been a professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. She has also taught at Washington State University, the University of Illinois, the University of Michigan, and on Pitt's Semester at Sea. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Glasgow and Stanford University. Her publications include The Politics of Taxation: Revenue Without Representation (Praeger, 1983), Globalization and the Politics of Pay (Georgetown, 2006), and numerous articles and book chapters on religion, public policy, reproductive rights, state economic development, taxation, labor costs, gender pay disparities in the Pittsburgh region, and the role of gender in elections. She is currently writing a book on secular mobilization in reaction to the Religious Right.
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