Hazel D. Hansen

Hansen was born was born in California 28 September 1899.{{Cite web |last=Mylonas |first=George B. |date=1963 |title=In Memoriam : Hazel Dorothy Hansen |url=https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/archives/uploads/ASCSA_AR_82_1962-63.pdf |website=American School of Classical Studies at Athens}} Her father was a foundryman.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WfcpAQAAMAAJ&q=hazel+dorothy+hansen |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |date=1966 |publisher=J.T. White |language=en}} Hansen graduated from the San Mateo Union High School and later taught Latin at the San Mateo Junior College.{{Cite web |date=2020-05-14 |title=Forgotten Friend of Skyros: Hazel D. Hansen (Part II) |url=https://nataliavogeikoff.com/2020/05/14/forgotten-friend-of-skyros-hazel-d-hansen-part-ii/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=From the Archivist's Notebook |language=en}}

She joined Stanford University in 1916 and received her B.A. and M.A. in 1920 and 1921{{Cite news |last= |first= |date=1962-12-21 |title=MISS HAZEL HANSEN OF STANFORD U. DIES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/12/21/archives/miss-hazel-hansen-of-stanford-u-dies.html |access-date=2024-06-24 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}} respectively with her Master's thesis about "Study of the Persians of Aeschylus." Hansen continued her studies at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece between the years 1922 to 1925.{{Cite news |date=1927-04-10 |title=Link between olden Greece, Mexico and Peru traced |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-san-francisco-examiner/46841813/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |work=The San Francisco Examiner |pages=35}} She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1926 with her dissertation entitled "Early Civilisation in Thessaly",{{Cite journal |last=Casson |first=Stanley |date=September 1933 |title=EARLY CIVILIZATION IN THESSALY. By Hazel D. Hansen. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, no. 15. Baltimore, 1933. pp. 203, 85 illustrations, 4 maps. 25s. |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/early-civilization-in-thessaly-by-hazel-d-hansen-johns-hopkins-university-studies-in-archaeology-no-15-baltimore-1933-pp-203-85-illustrations-4-maps-25s/414CD170FA38E06C857946EC548037BB |journal=Antiquity |language=en |volume=7 |issue=27 |pages=363 |doi=10.1017/S0003598X00008309 |issn=0003-598X|url-access=subscription }} which was later published as a book in 1933. In the year 1927-28 she received the Alice Freeman Palmer Fellowship of the American Association of University Women{{Cite journal|url=http://archive.org/details/sim_outlook_1927-04_20_3 |title=Fellowship awards for 1927-128. |date=1927 |publisher=American Association of University Women |journal=Journal of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae |volume= 20|issue= 3 |language=English}}{{Cite news |url=http://archive.org/details/per_washington-post_1927-03-21_18540 |title=University Women Announce Awards |date=1927-03-21 |others=Internet Archive |location=The Washington Post |pages=1,14 |language=English |issue=18540}}

In 1928, she became an instructor in the Department of Classics at Stanford University. Hansen was known for her work in the field of Aegean prehistory. In 1931 was became an assistant professor at Stanford University. She was promoted to associate professor in 1935, and to full professor in 1940.{{Cite news |date=1940-05-01 |title=Stanford announces advancement of 27 faculty members |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune-stanford-ann/149949370/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |work=The Peninsula Times Tribune |pages=5}}

In 1960 Hansen founded the Stanford branch of the American Institute of Archaeology.{{Cite web |last1=Flügge-Lotz |first1=Irmgard |last2=Farnsworth |first2=Helen C. |last3=Otis |first3=Brooks |date=1962 |title=MEMORIAL RESOLUTION HAZEL D. HANSEN (1899 – 1962) |url=https://purl.stanford.edu/sg475zd2579}}

Hansen is known for her investigations into the history of Greece. Several trips to Thessaly in the years 1923-1924 led to her work focus in Thessalian topography and prehistory. Hansen's interest on the Greek island Skyros, led her to spend many summers cataloguing and excavating the island. Through her her work the island of Skyros was able to establish its first museum displaying the excavations of pottery and other objects which she had found in graves. The Archaeological Service of the Greek Ministry asked Hansen to write a guidebook for the Skyros museum.{{Cite web |title=Hazel D. Hansen Papers {{!}} American School of Classical Studies at Athens |url=https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/archives/hazel-hansen-papers |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=www.ascsa.edu.gr}} In the 1930s, Hansen talked about her work on an excavation in Athens.{{Cite news |date=1935-08-26 |title=Speaker to tell of excavations in Grecian city |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-peninsula-times-tribune-speaker-to-t/149945614/ |access-date=2024-06-24 |work=The Peninsula Times Tribune |pages=8}}

Hansen also worked with students at Stanford to assemble shards of pottery, the resulting pieces were collected into a workshop at Stanford.

Hansen died on 19 December 1962 at the Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, due to an ongoing heart condition.

• {{Cite book |last=Hansen |first=Hazel D. |date=1971 |title=Early civilization in Thessaly |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/686449 |language=en}}Review of Early Civilization in Thessaly
• {{Cite journal |last=Fraser |first=A. D. |date=1934 |title=Early Civilization in Thessaly. Hazel D. Hansen |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/361691 |journal=Classical Philology |volume=29 |issue=1 |pages=82–83 |doi=10.1086/361691 |issn=0009-837X|url-access=subscription }}
• {{Cite journal |last=L. |first=R. |date=1934 |title=Review of Early civilization in Thessaly. The Johns Hopkins Studies in archaeology, n° 15 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/41748409 |journal=Revue Archéologique |volume=4 |pages=210 |jstor=41748409 |issn=0035-0737}}
• {{Cite journal |last1=Charbonneaux |first1=J. |last2=Dugas |first2=Charles |date=1936 |title=Review of Early Civilization in Thessaly |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44272428 |journal=Revue des Études Grecques |volume=49 |issue=233 |pages=609–610 |jstor=44272428 |issn=0035-2039}}
• {{Cite journal |last=Hansen |first=Hazel D. |date=1937 |title=The Prehistoric Pottery on the North Slope of the Acropolis, 1937 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/146470 |journal=Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=539–570 |jstor=146470 |issn=0018-098X}}

Hansen was named an honorary Greek citizen of Skyros.{{Cite web |date=2020-04-19 |title=Forgotten Friend of Skyros: Hazel Dorothy Hansen (Part I) |url=https://nataliavogeikoff.com/2020/04/19/forgotten-friend-of-skyros-hazel-dorothy-hansen-pt-i/ |access-date=2024-01-16 |website=From the Archivist's Notebook |language=en}} Hansen was a fellow of the Archaeological Institute of America.{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/breakinggroundpi0000unse |title=Breaking ground : pioneering women archaeologists |date=2004 |publisher=Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-472-11372-9}}

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