"The Others" Kimberly Jensen Ph.D Talk & Book Signing Free Event

Join us for a book talk from Professor Kimberly Jensen Ph.D

In the era of the First World War and its aftermath, the quest to identify, restrict and punish internal enemy “others,” combined with eugenic thinking, severely curtailed civil liberties for many people in Oregon and the nation. But some Oregonians, including women and gender nonconforming people, resisted. Their determination to maintain their rights and freedoms fueled movements for human rights, social justice and dissent that hold meaning for today. 

Kimberly Jensen received a Ph.D. in United States and Women’s History from the University of Iowa and is Professor of History and Gender Studies at Western Oregon University. She is the author of Mobilizing Minerva: American Women in the First World War (University of Illinois Press, 2008), Oregon’s Doctor to the World: Esther Pohl Lovejoy and a Life in Activism (University of Washington Press, 2012). Her book Oregon’s Others: Gender, Civil Liberties, and the Surveillance State in the Early Twentieth Century (University of Washington Press, 2024) was a finalist for the 2025 Oregon Book Award for General Nonfiction. She is at work on a new book project on the broad history of eugenics and state-coerced sterilization in Oregon and people’s resistance to eugenics policies. She serves on the Executive and Editorial Boards of the Oregon Encyclopedia project.

This is a free event. Please pre-register seating is limited.