Dr. Jennifer Klein

Professor

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Biography

Jennifer Klein is the Bradford Durfee Professor of History at Yale University. She specializes in 20th century history, urban history, labor history, and political economy policy. Klein earned her B.A. from Barnard College and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. She became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation fellow in Health Policy before joining Yale. Her significant works include 'Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State,' co-authored with Eileen Boris, which earned the Sara Whaley Book Prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. Klein received the 2014 Hans Sigrist Prize from the University of Bern for her contributions in the field of women and precarity. She has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation and has published articles on various topics including labor, health care policy, and the welfare state. Her current research project, 'Wastelands: Economic Geography of Waste, Coercion, and Marginalization in Southeastern Louisiana, 1790-1990s,' explores the intersection of labor, economics, and history.

Research Interests

Awards

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Hans Sigrist Prize

Courses

History of Labor Class and Capitalism 20th Century Political Economy U.S. Urban History U.S. Women’s History Contemporary America 1940-Present

Requirements for Yale University

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.5
GRE General
TOEFL
Listening
Required:25
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:100
IELTS
Speaking
Required:7.5
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, or Mathematics
Application Checklist
  • Statement of academic purpose
  • Unofficial transcripts
  • Three letters of recommendation
  • Application fee ($105)
  • Resume/CV
Specialization Notes

Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.