Kimberly Jensen
Department of History and
Gender Studies Program
Western Oregon
University
Kimberly Jensen received
her Ph.D. in Women's and U.S. History from the University of Iowa in 1992.
Her book Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008) analyzes the mobilization of
women, including physicians, nurses, and women-at-arms, and their claims for
citizenship during the war, military service, and anti-violence activism. Learn more
With Erika
Kuhlman, she is the co-editor of Women in Transnational Activism in Historical
Perspective (Leiden: Republic of Letters Press, 2010) Learn more
PUBLICATIONS
Current Project: Scholarly biography of Esther Pohl Lovejoy,
M.D. (1869-1967) Oregon suffrage and public health activist, and organizer and
director of international medical relief.
Books
Mobilizing Minerva:
American Women in the First World War
(Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
2008)
Kimberly Jensen and Erika Kuhlman, eds., Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective
(Dordrecht: Republic of Letters, 2010)
Articles and Chapters
“Volunteers,
Auxiliaries, and Women’s Mobilization: The First World War and Beyond,” in
Barton C. Hacker and Margaret Vining, eds., The
Brill Companion to Women’s Military History
(Leiden:
Brill, forthcoming 2011)
“Feminist
Transnational Activism and International Health: The Medical Women’s
International
Association
and the American Women’s Hospitals, 1919-1948,” in Kimberly Jensen and Erika Kuhlman, eds., Women and Transnational Activism in Historical Perspective (Dordrecht:
Republic of Letters, 2010), 143-72.
“Revolutions in the
Machinery: Oregon Women and Citizenship in Sesquicentennial Perspective,”
Oregon
Historical Quarterly 110 no. 3 (Fall 2009): 336-361.
“‘Neither Head nor
Tail to the Campaign’: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage
Victory of 1912,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108 no. 3
(Fall 2007): 350-383.
“Esther
Pohl Lovejoy, M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Critique of Wartime
Violence,” in
Alison
Fell and Ingrid Sharp, eds., The Women’s
Movement in Wartime: International Perspectives 1914-19 (London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2007), 175-193.
“A Base Hospital is Not a Coney
Island Dance Hall: American Women Nurses, Hostile Work
Environment,
and Military Rank in the First World War,” Frontiers:
A Journal of Women Studies 26 no. 2 (Fall 2005): 206-235.
“American Women, Gender-Based Violence, and the First World
War,” Papers from the Frontlines:
Gender, Identity and War Conference,
Melbourne, Australia, July 2002,
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/history/events/genidwar/.
“Uncle Sam’s Loyal Nieces: American Medical Women,
Citizenship, and War Service in World War I,”
in Judith Walzer
Leavitt ed. Women and Health in America
2nd ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1999), 540-555.
“Physicians
and Citizens: U.S. Medical Women and
Military Service in the First World War,” in Roger
Cooter et al., War,
Medicine, and Modernity, 1860-1945 (London: Sutton Publishers,
1998),106-124.
“Women,
Citizenship, and Civic Sacrifice:
Engendering Patriotism in the First World War,” in Bonds of
Affection: Americans Define Their Patriotism, John Bodnar, ed. (Princeton University Press, 1996), 139-159.
“The ‘Open Way of Opportunity”: Colorado Women Physicians and
World War I,” Western Historical
Quarterly 27 no. 3
(Autumn 1996): 327-48.
“Uncle
Sam’s Loyal Nieces: American Medical
Women, Citizenship, and War Service in the First World
War,”
Bulletin of the History of Medicine,
67 (1993): 651-671.
“‘Battalions
of Life’: Medical Women, The American
Women’s Hospitals, and War Service in the First
World
War,” Collections: The Newsletter of the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine, The Medical College of Pennsylvania
1991, 23: 1-4.
Documents
and Bibliography Module, “Women in United States History,” for Instructor’s Resource
Manual
to accompany James Henretta et al., America’s History 2nd. ed. (Worth
Publishers, 1996, 1993).
SELECTED SCHOLARLY CONFERENCE
PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Reinvigorating the Campaign in Historical Context: The
Interconnections among California, Washington, and Oregon Suffrage Campaigns,
1910-1912,” for Roundtable titled
“Reinvigorating the Campaign: the
Washington, California and Oregon Women's Suffrage Centennial Commemorations”
at the Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Women Historians, Santa
Clara, California, May 2009.
Panelist for Roundtable titled “Suffrage and Beyond: Centennials as
Commemorations and
Collection
Initiatives” for the Pacific Northwest History Conference, Portland, Oregon,
April 2009.
“Oregon's Doctor to the World: The Life and Activism of
Esther Pohl Lovejoy (1869-1967),” Paper for
the “Women’s Biography: Old
Stories, New Trends” Seminar Workshop for the Berkshire Conference on the
History of Women, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2008.
“Women Physicians, Transnational Medical Relief and Feminist
Activism: The American Women’s
Hospitals 1919-1967” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association
for the
History of Medicine, Montreal, Canada, May 2007.
"Building Global Feminism through International Health:
Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D. and the Medical
Women's International Association,
1919-1948" Roundtable panel presentation for the Annual meeting of the
American Historical Association, Atlanta, Georgia, January 2007.
"Medical Women and the Politics of International
Health: The Medical Women's
International
Association and Feminist
Internationalism after the First World War," Paper presented at
the Annual Meeting of the Society
for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Lawrence,
Kansas, June 2006.
“Esther Pohl Lovejoy,
M.D., the First World War, and a Feminist Vision for International Health”
Paper presented at conference
entitled “The Gentler Sex: Responses of the Women’s Movement to the First World
War 1914-1919” School of Advanced Study, University of London, September 2005.
“An International Vision for Women
in Medicine and Medical Relief: Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D 1869-
1967”
Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Pacific Coast Branch of the
American Historical Association, August 2005, Corvallis, Oregon.
“From the Pacific Northwest to a
Global Vision for International Health: Esther Pohl Lovejoy, M.D.,
1869-1967”
Paper Presented at the Pacific Northwest History Conference, Boise Idaho, April
2005.
“Esther Pohl Lovejoy,
1870-1967: Activist and Advocate for
Women in Medicine” Paper presented at
the 2004
Annual Meeting of the Western Association of Women Historians, Santa Barbara,
California, May 2004
“‘The Reflex from the Violence of War Time’: Gender Relations
in Post World War I America” Paper
presented at the Western
Association of Women Historians Conference, Berkeley, California, June 2003.
“American Women, Gender-Based Violence, and the First World
War” Paper presented at the Frontlines:
Gender, Identity and War
Conference, Melbourne, Australia, July 2002.
“`Feminine
Patriotism’ and Civic Equality: American
Women, Citizenship, and War Service in World
War
I,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois,
January 1995.
“Women,
Citizenship and Civic Sacrifice:
Engendering Patriotism in World War I,” Patriotism and the
Family
in Modern America Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, November
1993.
“Mustering
an Amazon Army: American Women, Military
Service, and the Rights of Citizenship in the
First
World War,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland,
November 1991.
“Uncle
Sam’s Loyal Nieces: American Medical
Women, Citizenship, and War Service in the First World
War,”
American Association for the History of Medicine Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, May
1991.
“Questions
of Rank: Class, Gender, and Race and
American Military Nurses, 1916-1920,” Midwest
America
American Studies Association Conference, Omaha, Nebraska, May 1989.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS
Finalist,
Frances Fuller Victor Award for General Nonfiction, Oregon Book Awards, 2008
for Mobilizing
Minerva: American Women in the
First World War (Urbana; University of Illinois Press, 2008)
Oregon
Historical Society Joel Palmer Award, 2008
Best Article in the Oregon
Historical Quarterly 2007 for “‘Neither Head nor Tail to the Campaign:’ Esther
Pohl Lovejoy and the Oregon Woman Suffrage Victory of 1912,” Oregon Historical Quarterly 108 no. 3
(Fall 2007): 350-383
Western
Foundation Competitive Grants Program Award, 2007-2008
Funding for Student Interviews and
Exhibits for the Oregon Installation of “Changing the Face of
Medicine:
Celebrating America’s Women Physicians”
Oregon Council
for the Humanities Research Grant, 2005-2006
Esther
Pohl Lovejoy Project
Foundation
for the History of Women in Medicine Fellowship, 2005-2006
Francis
C. Wood Institute for the History of Medicine, College of Physicians,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Esther Pohl Lovejoy Project
Herbert
Hoover Presidential Library Association, Travel Grant, 2005-2006
Hoover Library Research for Esther
Pohl Lovejoy Project
Faculty
Development Major Project Grant, 2004, Western Oregon University
Travel for Archival Research for
Esther Pohl Lovejoy Project
Faculty
Academic Advisor of the Year, 2002-2003
Western
Oregon University, 2003
Mario and
Alma Pastega Excellence in Teaching Award, 2001-2002
Western
Oregon University, 2002
Outstanding
ASWOU Advisor Award for Student Organizations, 2000-2001
Western
Oregon University, 2001
Western
Oregon Faculty Development Grant, 2001
Summer Stipend for Research
Diversity
Achievement Award, 2000
Western Oregon University, 2000
Western
Foundation Competitive Grants Program Award, 1995-1996
Funding for Women in Western Oregon
History Project
Western
Oregon Faculty Development Grant, 1995
Summer Stipend for Research
Ada Louisa Ballard Fellowship in the Humanities,
1991-1992
$10,000 award from the Graduate
College, University of Iowa, for
dissertation (one of three at the
University).
Louis
Pelzer Fellowship in American History, 1990-1991
$10,000 award from the Department of
History, University of Iowa
M. Louise Gloeckner, M.D., Summer Research Fellowship, 1990
$1500 award for one month in
residence for research at the Archives and
Special Collections on Women in
Medicine, The Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Outstanding
Teaching Assistant Award, 1988-1989
$1000 from the University of Iowa
Council on Teaching for excellence in
teaching at the University of Iowa.