Joan M. Jensen (born December 9, 1934 St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American historian.
She attended Pasadena City College, and earned a master's degree and a PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles.
She left her job to join a farming commune in southern Colorado.
Jensen is largely responsible for founding the university's Women's Studies program.
[2] 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.