Education
2015 Ph.D., Geography
University of Kentucky
Dissertation: Living Care-fully: Labor, Love and Suffering and the Geographies of
Intergenerational Care in Northern Ghana
2007 M.A., Anthropology (Concentration Archaeology)
University of South Carolina
Thesis Title: Becoming a Wife: An Ethnoarchaeological Look at Food Processing and
Kitchenspace in Northern Ghana
2007 Graduate Certificate, Women’s Studies
University of South Carolina
2005 B.Sc., Archaeology (Concentration Physical Anthropology), with Distinction
University of Calgary
Areas of Expertise
Development and Livelihoods
Gender and Ageing
Families and Intergenerational Relationships
Feminist Geographies
Geographies of Care
Sub-Saharan Africa
Qualitative Methodologies
Selected Publications:
Hanrahan, K. & E. Billo. 2023. Embodied Listening: Disrupting Speech-as-Presence towards
Imaginative Ways of Being in the Classroom. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 22(6), 1490–1508. https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/ 2295
Hanrahan, K. and E. Billo. 2022. “A Field Guide for Embodied Listening Practices”
In DIY Methods, September 2022. Peterborough, ON: Low-Carbon Research Methods Groups,
http://lowcarbonmethods.com/DIYmethods2022.html.
Hanrahan, K. 2020. The spaces in between care: Considerations of connection and disconnection
for subjects of care. Area 52(2), 244-250. DOI: 10.1111/area.12486
Hanrahan, K. and C.E. Smith. Editorial: Interstices of Care: Re-imagining the Geographies
of Care. Area 52(2), 230-234. DOI: 10.1111/area.12502
Hanrahan, K. 2018. Caregiving as mobility constraint and opportunity: Married daughters
providing end of life care in northern Ghana. Social and Cultural Geography 19(1), 59-80.
Hanrahan, K. 2015. Living Care-fully: The potential for an ethics of care in livelihoods
approaches. World Development 42, 381-393.
Selected Grants & Fellowships:
2023 Provost Research Fellowship, “Caringscapes of end-of-life care in northern Ghana.”
2021 Crosby Grant, Goucher College, “Critical pedagogies of participation through
embodied listening in Qualitative Research Methods courses” with Emily Billo (Goucher
College).
2021 Urban Geography Journal Workshop Award, “The Baltimore Conversations: A Workshop
Series on Struggle, Vibrancy, and Emancipatory Futures”; with Drs. Dena Aufseeser
(UMBC), Emily Billo (Goucher College), Kelsey Hanrahan (TU), Dillon Mahmoudi (UMBC).
2019-2020 Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellowship, Office of the Provost, Towson
University
2018 Faculty Research Award, University System of Maryland Women’s Forum
Student Advising:
Dr. Hanrahan advises undergraduate students in the Geography and Environmental Planning
program and the International Studies program.
At the graduate level, she has advised thesis and non-thesis projects for students
in the MA Geography program and the MS in Social Sciences program; she has also advised
independent study classes in both Geography and Women and Gender Studies.
