Associate Deputy Director

The daughter of a foreign service officer, Hanna spent the first eight years of her life abroad, in Munich, Germany; Okinawa; and Suriname, South America. Her father retired in 1965 to Geneva, New York, where she lived until graduating from high school. She attended Bates College for two years, transferring to Middlebury College to pursue a major in German. During her Bates and her Middlebury years, she made trips to study in Germany, once to Grafing, outside of Munich, and once to Mainz. After many years of neglect, however, Hanna sadly reports that her use of German has been pretty much reduced to talking about the weather.

She has worked at SU for over 17 years, the last 12 of which were spent in the Whitman School of Management, working closely with students as Coordinator of Academic Services and then as Assistant Dean. She also developed a large network of colleagues in her work on a number of campus-wide committees, and hopes to stay in touch with them as she develops new relationships in the Honors Program.

Another interest Hanna developed in college was for jazz singing which, happily, has not been neglected over the years. With her husband, Phil Flanigan, Hanna has recorded three CDs, and performed at many clubs and events throughout New York and in Blackpool, England, North and South Carolina, New Jersey, California, and Florida. She and Phil also tour the UK for two weeks every summer.