About Elizabeth Hansen
certified archivist, CURATOR, PUBLIC PROGRAMMER, RESEARCHER
Elizabeth Hansen provides program planning, curation, and digital strategy services to museums and archives as well as proxy research services to filmmakers, television producers, authors, curators, and scholars. Her work coordinating the Texas Film Round-Up for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) earned the organization the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Wow Award as well as a Leadership in History Award of Merit in 2010. She also earned TAMI a 2013 AASLH Leadership in History Award of Merit as a member of its website redevelopment team.
Elizabeth has held positions at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, LBJ Presidential Library and the Bullock Texas State History Museum, where she contributed to the design and implementation of the museum's award-winning website (2015 American Alliance of Museums' Muse Award, Texas Association of Museums' Mitchell A. Wilder Publication Design Award). She also served for five years as an elected member of the executive committee of the Austin Museum Partnership (AMP).
An experienced radio producer, Elizabeth was awarded the Southeast Journalism Conference's Best News Story Award as a reporter at WMOT in 2001. From 2006 to 2015, she taught radio production to Austin teens as an assistant adult coordinator for Youth Spin, a weekly news and public affairs program on KOOP. She is also the founder of the College Radio Archive, a project set to launch in 2017.
Elizabeth holds a master's degree in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from Middle Tennessee State University.
Contact Elizabeth to consult on your next project at elizabeth@elizabeth-hansen.com.
From the LBJ Presidential Library
Archival Research
Need access to an archival collection?
Since 2008, I have helped filmmakers, academics, authors, and other clients access documents and artifacts in archives, libraries, and museums. My experience working in archives helps me navigate archival arrangement and locate the materials you need quickly and efficiently. I primarily conduct research in institutions located in the Kansas City (MO/KS), Memphis (TN), and Austin (TX) areas, including, but not limited to, the following:
Kansas Historical Society
Missouri Valley Room at the Kansas City Public Library
Harry S. Truman Presidential Library
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas
Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library
Harry Ransom Center
Texas State Library and Archives
Briscoe Center for American History
Memphis and Shelby County Room at the Memphis Public Library
Austin History Center
Film Research
Looking for footage, photographs, or interviews to enhance your documentary?
As a lover and scholar of media, film research is one of my favorite activities. I have helped numerous filmmakers locate footage and photographs that enhance their productions. My research for films also includes identifying experts for interviews and advancing interviews as an associate producer. Below are examples of projects to which I have contributed:
This is a conversation starter first, a video second. I'd love to hear your thoughts on cities, the future, and this project. Thank you to everybody who contributed! Trust me when I say that even if I didn't get your footage in the cut, we can feel it in the finished product.
The future of cities (2016)
For this short film, produced for the Nantucket Project by Neighborhood Watch and directed by Oscar Boyson, I researched experts around the world and coordinated interviews about the future of cities. I also located archival film and photographs used in the film.
“Out of view of the high art world and the hip gallery scene comes this heartening story of unlikely partners in middle America working together to reexamine their histories, celebrate what makes their towns unique, and imagine their futures in the form of monumental community murals. Led by muralist Dave Loewenstein, these mural projects not only leave viewers reassessing their notions of art, but also with an itch to go out and do it themselves!”
Called to Walls (2016)
Called to Walls documents community mural projects in Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Kansas. I assisted the filmmakers in locating archival footage specific to the topic of the film and regions explored.
Release Date: July 9, 2010 Genre: Documentary | Comedy Cast: Jack Rebney Director: Ben Steinbauer Studio: Kino International Plot: A search for the legendary RV salesman whose hilarious, foul-mouthed outbursts were caught on video and became an online phenomenon. Winnebago Man is a laugh-out-loud look at viral culture and an unexpectedly poignant tale of one man's response to unintended fame.
Winnebago man (2009)
Winnebago Man was my first film credit as a researcher. I worked with director Ben Steinbauer to locate footage relevant to the film. I have also worked with Steinbauer's production company, The Bear Media, on an unreleased project.
Contact me for research rates.