Tiffany Jenson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida (UF). Although, she arrived at UF in 2017, Tiffany has worked in higher education full-time for approximately 16 years (as faculty and staff).
Her professional experiences include working as a researcher/statistician for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections as well as for the Department of Health and Human Services. She currently teaches mostly upper-division courses on: criminology, corrections, terrorism, research methods, and applied statistical analysis. She has been awarded $3.34 million in several state and federal grants, and served as an statistician, researcher, evaluator, and consultant on many others which served various populations such as: foster children, inmates, high-risk juveniles, Native Americans, and the elderly. Her research and publications are focused on topics of social justice and sexual victimization.
She has taught at: Southern Methodist University, University of Oklahoma, Brigham Young University-Provo, and Brigham Young University-Idaho. She achieved the rank of Associate Professor at BYU-Idaho in 2014. Tiffany has also served as Faculty Association President-Elect and Staff Association President at two of these universities.