A native of Tulsa, Professor Van Hanken first remembers editing stories while surveying the vast Western landscapes on weeks-long family car trips. As an undergraduate at Duke University, Van Hanken edited the student-lead news magazine, The Missing Link. His first job after college was deputy editorial page editor for The Shreveport Journal, where he and his colleagues covered the first U.S. Senate campaign of Ku Klax Klan-leader David Duke. After eight months traveling around the world, Van...
