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Richard Joseph Jensen (born October 24, 1941〔American Political Science Association (1968) ''Biographical Directory.'' p. 263〕) 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 work.〔 == Life and career == Born in South Bend, Indiana, Jensen obtained his BA in mathematics at the University of Notre Dame in 1962. He moved to Yale University, where in 1965 he obtained his MA and in 1966 his PhD in American studies under supervision of C. Vann Woodward with the unpublished thesis, entitled "The Winning of the Midwest: A Social History of Midwestern Elections, 1888–1896."〔Jaques Cattell Press, ed. ''Directory of American Scholars'' (Bowker, 1978) pp 341–42〕 After graduation Jensen started as assistant professor at the 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.〔〔American Historical Association, Institutional Services Program, ''Guide to Departments of History: 1996–97'' (Washington, 1997) pp 137–81〕 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 at West Point in 1989–90. From 1971 to 1982, Jensen was also director of the Family and Community History Center, 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.''〔 Jensen was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in 1962, a William Robertson Coe fellowship in American history in 1963, and a Boies fellowship in 1965.〔 He received the Rockefeller Foundation/Bellagio (1983), and was a U. of Illinois, senior scholar (1985–88); a Fulbright Fellow (to the USSR, 1986); and a ACLS senior fellowship (1987–88).〔American Historical Association, Institutional Services Program, ''Guide to Departments of History: 1986–87'' (Washington, 1987) pp 130–31〕 He received the James Harvey Robinson Prize for teaching from the American Historical Association (1997). Jensen was quoted in 2012 as stating that Wikipedia was nearly complete with regard to major historical articles. His comments came in the Journal of Military History concerning the Wikipedia article on the War of 1812. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard J. Jensen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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