James R. Hansen

James R. Hansen
James Hansen at the National Air and Space Museum Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018 in Washington, D.C..
Born1952 
OccupationAcademic, historian
LanguageEnglish language 
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIndiana University
Ohio State University
Website
webhome.auburn.edu/~hansejr/

James R. Hansen (born 1952) is Professor Emeritus of history at Auburn University in Alabama. His book From the Ground Up won the History Book Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in 1988. For his work, The Wind and Beyond (NASA) - (six-volume series), he was awarded the Eugene Ferguson Prize for Outstanding Reference Work by the Society for the History of Technology in 2005.