Rate My Professor Kipton Jensen

Kipton E. Jensen, Ph.D., is an associate professor of philosophy at Morehouse College, holding the Coca-Cola Endowed Chair of Leadership Studies. He currently directs the Higher Education in Prisons Program in the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership, having previously served as director of the Leadership Studies Program from 2020 to 2024 and assistant director of the International Comparative Labor Studies Program. Jensen received a B.A. in classical languages from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Marquette University in 1996. Prior to Morehouse, he taught philosophy at the University of Botswana from 2004 to 2008, where his research on traditional healers and faith communities' roles in public health led to the publication Parallel Discourses: Religious Identity and HIV Prevention in Botswana (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012). He was also a Fulbright Scholar in American Studies at Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, in 2000–2001, and received the Fulbright Teaching Fellow award in 2000 and the Teaching Excellence Award in 1998.