Joan M. Jensen (born December 9, 1934 St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American historian.

Life

She attended Pasadena City College, and earned a master's degree and a PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1962 to 1971, she taught at U.S. International University, in San Diego, California. She left her job to join a farming commune in southern Colorado. From 1974 to 1975, she taught at Arizona State University, and from 1975 to 1976 she taught at UCLA. She taught history at New Mexico State University. 1976–1993 and holds the rank of professor emerita. Jensen is largely responsible for founding the university's Women's Studies program. In 1990, the Coalition for Western Women's History honored Jensen by creating the Joan Jensen – Darlis Miller Prize for the best scholarly article published in the preceding year in the field of women and gender in the trans-Mississippi West.

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