Jill Jensen Ph.D.
Education
- Ph.D., U.S. History/ History of Public Policy, University of California, Santa Barbara
- M.A., Modern European History and Public History, University of California, Riverside
- B.A., Political Science and International Relations, University of California, San Diego
Professional Background
Jill Jensen teaches courses on the history of capitalism, business ethics, workers in the global economy, and the history of work. She has published several articles on the history of the United Nations and the International Labor Organization (ILO), particularly on U.S. perspectives regarding inter-governmental institutions, international human rights, comparative social policy, and women’s work and gender. She is editor with Nelson Lichtenstein of the volume, The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim: West Meets East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and editor of Women and Social Movements, Development in the Global South, 1919-2019, a curated database with ProQuest/ Alexander Street Press as part of the Women and Social Movements Library.
Experience
- 2016-2022, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Business Administration and Management, University of Redlands
- 2014-2016, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Business Administration, University of Redlands
- 2012-2014, Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University
- 2011-2012, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University
Affiliations
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Member of the European Labour History Network
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Member of the Organization of American Historians
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Member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Publications
Jill Jensen and Nicola Piper, “Migrant Workers, the ILO and the Potential for Labour Justice,” Global Social Policy (August 2022)
Jill Jensen, “The ILO World Employment Program Research Agenda on Development and Migration,” Global Social Policy (August 2022).
Jill Jensen, “Struggle, Urban Appropriation, and Cities of the Future,” Journal of Urban History (2021)
Jill Jensen and Eileen Boris, “The Gender of Economic Rights,” in The Routledge History of Human Rights (New York: Routledge, 2019).
Jill Jensen and Kiran Klaus Patel, "Defining Alternatives: Nazi Social Policies and the New Deal," in Nazism Across Borders: The Social Policies of the Third Reich and their Global Appeal (Oxford University Press, in press, 2018).
Jill Jensen and Nelson Lichtenstein (eds.) The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim: West Meets East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Awards and service
- 2020: ProQuest $15,000 grant for student research
- 2019: Hall Policy Network Seed Grant, the University of Redlands
- 2016-2017: Research grant recipient, The Internationalization of Nazi Labor and Social Policy and the Role of the Reichsarbeitsministerium, German Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS).
- 2015-2016, Research grant recipient, The Internationalization of Nazi Labor and Social Policy and the Role of the Reichsarbeitsministerium, German Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS).
- 2012-2013, Research grant recipient, International Democracy Watch, Centro Studi sul Federalismo, University of Turin