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Nancy Hauserman papers

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Identifier: IWA1420
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Scope and Contents

The Nancy Hauserman papers date from 1979 to 2013 and measure 4.72 linear feet (10 boxes) and 8 miniature audiocassettes. The collection is organized into 4 series: Personal, Professional, The University of Iowa Health Care Photo Project, and The Sexual Harassment Survey.

The Personal series (1980-2011) consists of Hauserman’s certificates, awards, correspondence, financial records, and photographs of her with family and friends.

The Professional series (1979-2013) contains information about Hauserman’s career including correspondence, newspaper clippings, classroom materials, reports, resumes, correspondence, articles, business cards, faculty profile, and photographs. Materials relating to Hauserman’s promotion to full professor in 1995 are documented in this series throughout her promotion file, citations, statement, and external reviews commenting about her work. This series also contains issues of Business at Iowa, Iowa alumni magazine, and The Best Business Schools Outside the United States. Hauserman’s research focused on women and employment law which are recorded in the files the women’s campus coalition, the women’s studies class, and statistics about the Women at the University of Iowa. Hauserman’s speeches, drafts, and slides are also documented in this series. A personal statement and photograph of Wen-Ling Wen is featured in this series. Wen-Ling Wen was a Finance Ph.D. student at the University of Iowa who suffered from Leukemia and died in 1997 after no match was found for a bone marrow transplant. Money was raised in 1992 for Wen-Ling in an attempt to find a match which Hauserman was involved in. Hauserman participated in a seminar that occurred in Stockholm, Sweden, which is recorded in the speech materials, articles, and correspondence with Anna Wahl, professor of Gender, Organization and Management at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Other materials included in this series is the Brokerage club constitution and pamphlets from the University of Iowa business school, U.S. professors of the year, and The Journal of Legal Studies Education.

The University of Iowa Health Care Photo Project series (2003-2008) is comprised of documents relating to the seventeen University of Iowa Health Care workers that were interviewed and photographed by Hauserman because of their ability to go beyond their job description. Materials in this series include research articles, newspaper clippings about care within the workplace, interview questions, interviewee responses, correspondence, legal forms, and photographs of the participants. A copy of the article “Taking Care: A Photo Essay of Some Support Staff at a Major University Hospital” along with comments written as well as a copy of the book Taking Care a Recognition of Good People Doing Good Things are included.

The Sexual Harassment Survey series (1979-2009) includes materials such as research articles, newspaper clippings, article reviews, interview questions, presentation slides, correspondence, interviewee responses, and reports relating to the survey Hauserman conducted at the University of Iowa in the early 2000s. A copy of the 1993 survey “Sexual Harassment at the University of Iowa: Result of a Campus Wide Survey” is also included in this series.

Dates

  • Creation: 1979 - 2013

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The papers are open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright held by the donor has been transferred to the University of Iowa.

Copyright status for collection materials may be unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owner.  Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility and potential liability based on copyright infringement for any use rests exclusively and solely with the user. Users must properly acknowledge University of Iowa Libraries Special Collections & Archives as the source of the material. For further information, visit the Special Collections and Archives website.

Biographical / Historical

Nancy Hauserman was born in 1948 to Harris and Judith Frank in St. Louis, Missouri. She earned a BA in English and Political Science at the University of Rhode Island and a JD in Law at the University of Iowa in 1976. After graduation, she worked in law as an attorney and paralegal until 1976. She became an assistant professor of business at the Tippie College of Business and was promoted to full professor in 1995. During her nearly four decades at the University of Iowa she served as associate dean of the college’s undergraduate business program helping to develop programs such as the Tippie Early Admission Program, the Tippie Senate, and the Tippie Young Alumni Board.

Hauserman’s research focused on business ethics, women and employment law, and sexual harassment. She developed a research interest in sexual harassment after serving as head of the faculty panel during the sexual harassment case of Dr. Jean Jew in the 1980s .The Jean Jew case was a sexual harassment case filed in 1985 in which Dr. Jew alleged, she had been victimized in the workplace for twelve years and been denied a promotion to full professorship on the basis of sex. Dr. Jew won her case in 1990 against Robert Tomanek and the University of Iowa. The university tried to appeal the case, but concerned faculty organized the Jean Jew Justice Committee to pressure the university to drop the appeal. Because of this influence, Hauserman authored numerous articles about sexual harassment in the workplace and conducted a sexual harassment survey at the University of Iowa in the early 2000s.

Hauserman always had a love for photography which was showcased throughout her career. This interest prompted her to interview and photograph seventeen workers at the University of Iowa hospitals between 2003 to 2008 which she complied into a book titled Taking Care a Recognition of Good People Doing Good Things. She received many honors throughout her career including the Ganj Women’s Rights Award in 1994, the Collegiate Teaching Award in 2003, a nomination for U.S. Professor of the Year in 2010, and the Williams Teaching Professorship at the Tippie College of Business. Hauserman retired in 2013 with the status of Emeritus Professor.

Partial Extent

4.72 Linear Feet

Partial Extent

8 audiocassettes (microcassette)

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Materials in this collection document the professional activities of Nancy Hauserman, business professor and scholar. Hauserman’s research and scholarship primarily focused on sexual harassment, business ethics, and women and employment law. Materials span from 1979 to 2013 and comprise course materials, speech materials, interview questions, newspaper clippings, research articles, and photographs.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

The papers (donor no. 1333) were donated by Nancy Hauserman in 2013.

Author
Andrea Leusink, 2026.
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Iowa Women's Archives Repository

Contact:
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