William Chester Jordan (born April 7, 1948) is an American medievalist who serves as the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University; he is a recipient of the Haskins Medal for his work concerning the Great Famine of 1315–1317.
Jordan has studied and published on the Crusades, English constitutional history, gender, economics, Judaism, and, most recently, church-state relations in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
Jordan received an undergraduate education at Ripon College, earning a bachelor's degree in history, mathematics, and Russian studies.
Jordan has shown a marked interest in pedagogy and edited single-volume and four-volume encyclopaedias on the Middle Ages, aimed at the elementary and middle-school audiences respectively.
Besides his scholarship on the Great Famine, Jordan is also known for his study of the reign of Louis IX of France, especially with respect to his Crusades.