Richard J. Jensen
| Richard J. Jensen | |
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Jensen in 2012
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| Born |
Richard Joseph Jensen October 24, 1941 South Bend, Indiana, U.S. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater |
University of Notre Dame Yale University |
| Thesis title | The Winning of the Midwest: A Social History of Midwestern Elections, 1888–1896 |
| Thesis year | 1966 |
| Doctoral advisor | C. Vann Woodward |
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Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941) is an American historian, who was professor of history at the University of Illinois, Chicago, from 1973 to 1996. He has worked on American political, social, military, and economic history as well as historiography and quantitative and computer methods. His work on Midwestern electoral history, The Winning of the Midwest, is his most widely cited.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Jensen obtained his BA in mathematics at the University of Notre Dame in 1962. He then moved to Yale University, where he earned an MA in 1965 and a PhD in American studies in 1966. His PhD dissertation, "The Winning of the Midwest: A Social History of Midwestern Elections, 1888–1896", was supervised by C. Vann Woodward.
After graduation Jensen started as assistant professor at Washington University in 1966. In 1970 he moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he became associate professor of history and was professor of history from 1973 to 1996. In 2008 he became a research professor at Montana State University Billings. He was a visiting professor at the University of Michigan in 1968, Harvard University in 1973, the Moscow State University in 1986, and West Point from 1989 to 1990.
From 1971 to 1982 Jensen was also director of the Family and Community History Center at the Newberry Library. From 1977 to 1982 he was president of the Chicago Metro History Fair. From 1992 to 1997 he was executive director at H-Net. Jensen served on the editorial boards of six scholarly journals, among them The Journal of American History and the American Journal of Sociology.
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