Richard Louis Jensen (born 1943)[1] is an American historian who specializes in the study of the 19th-century Latter Day Saint movement in Europe and of 19th-century European Latter Day Saint immigrants in the United States.
Jensen received his Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Utah State University and a Master of Arts degree in history from Ohio State University in 1972.
[2] Among his writings are Mormons in Early Victorian Britain.
Jensen was a research historian with the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History during its entire existence.
one of the co-editors involved in the Joseph Smith Papers Project.