Jill Jensen Ph.D.

Jill Jensen teaches courses on the history of capitalism, business ethics, workers in the global economy, and the history of work. She has published on the history of the United Nations and the International Labor Organization (ILO), with particular attention to U.S. perspectives on intergovernmental institutions, international human rights, comparative social policy, and women’s work and gender. Professor Jensen is coeditor, with Nelson Lichtenstein, of 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.

• 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

• Visiting assistant professor, business administration and management, University of Redlands, 2016–2022
• Adjunct Instructor, business administration, University of Redlands, 2014–2016
• Visiting assistant professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University, 2012–2014
• Postdoctoral scholar, labor studies and employment relations, Pennsylvania State University, 2011–2012

• Jensen, J., & Piper, N. 2022. “Migrant Workers, the ILO and the Potential for Labour Justice.” Global Social Policy.
• Jensen, J. 2022. “The ILO World Employment Program Research Agenda on Development and Migration.” Global Social Policy.
• Jensen, J. 2021. “Struggle, Urban Appropriation, and Cities of the Future.” Journal of Urban History.
• Jensen, J., & Boris, E. 2019. “The Gender of Economic Rights.” In The Routledge History of Human Rights. New York: Routledge.
• Jensen, J., & Patel, K. K. 2018. “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: Oxford University Press (in press).
• Jensen, J., & Lichtenstein, N. (Eds.) 2016. The ILO from Geneva to the Pacific Rim: West Meets East. Palgrave Macmillan.

• ProQuest grant for student research, $15,000, 2020
• Hall Policy Network Seed Grant, University of Redlands, 2019
• Research grant recipient, The Internationalization of Nazi Labor and Social Policy and the Role of the Reichsarbeitsministerium, German Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BMAS), 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, International Democracy Watch, Centro Studi sul Federalismo, University of Turin, 2012–2013

• European Labour History Network
• Organization of American Historians
• Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management