Steve Hanna (shanna)

Professor

Geography

Jepson Science Center Room 312
shanna@umw.edu
540-654-1490

Academic Degrees

B.A., Clark University; M.A., University of Vermont; Ph.D., University of Kentucky

Stephen P. Hanna, Professor of Geography, holds a Ph.D. (1997) in geography from the University of Kentucky, an M.A. (1992) in geography from the University of Vermont, and a B.A. (1987) in geography from Clark University. He is a human geographer who has been recognized for his research on heritage tourism landscapes, race and the politics of memory, and cartography. His published works on these topics include the co-edited books Mapping Tourism (2003) and Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Research Methodologies (2015). He has also written or co-written numerous articles, often with UMW students, that have appeared in Progress in Human Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Cartographica, the Journal of Heritage Tourism, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, Historical Geography, Urban Geography, and the Southeastern Geographer. As a practicing cartographer, Dr. Hanna, along with his students, have prepared more than 100 maps for publication in academic books and journals as well as for news outlets such as the Washington Post and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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UMW’s Summer Enrichment Program Mixes College-Level Learning With Fredericksburg Fun

From mixing paint pigments to mixing music, high school students in UMW’s Summer Enrichment Program signed up for a week of college-level learning paired with outdoor activities in the Fredericksburg area. By day three in the week-long program, they had visited Ferry Farm and Kenmore, picked up litter along the Read more…

Newest Civil Rights Trail Markers Chronicle Mary Washington History

Five markers unveiled this week at the University of Mary Washington tell the story of a college campus – and the perseverance of its community members – following the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. The signs represent a portion of the second part of the Fredericksburg Civil Read more…

UMW Map-Makers Bring Lafayette’s Journey to Life

University of Mary Washington senior Brooke Prevedel and Professor of Geography Steve Hanna spent more than 100 hours making the map at the center of a new Fredericksburg Area Museum exhibit. “I spent most of my time hunched over my drawing tablet looking at it in extra blown-up proportions,” said Read more…

Farnsworth, Hanna, Burkley Publish Chapter on Virginia Politics

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies; Stephen P. Hanna, professor of geography, and Sally Burkley, a 2022 UMW graduate who is now a student at William and Mary Law School, are coauthors of a book chapter, “Chuck Robb’s 1981 Read more…

Farnsworth Lectures on Virginia Elections

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of Political Science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently presented an online lecture, "Comparing Mark Warner’s 2001 and 2020 Elections: the Declining Influence of Rural Voters in Virginia's Statewide Elections,” for the Sorensen Institute of the University of Virginia. The lecture Read more…

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