2019– , Associate Professor of Chinese History and Jessica Rawson Fellow in Modern Asian History, University of Oxford, Faculty of History and Merton College

2012–2019 – Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Chinese History, Department of History, King’s College London

2011–2012 – An Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University

2010–2011 – Departmental Lecturer in Modern Chinese History, Faculty of History, University of Oxford

2010 – Doctorate in Modern Chinese Studies, Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg

2005 – Bachelor of Arts in Chinese Studies, University of Cambridge

Altehenger, Jennifer. Legal Lessons: Popularizing Laws in the People’s Republic of China, 1949–1989. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press/Harvard University Asia Center, 2018.

Altehenger, Jennifer (editor) ‘The Mao Era in Objects’ (created and hosted by King’s Digital Lab, https://maoeraobjects.ac.uk)

Altehenger, Jennifer. “Dictionaries in China Post-1949,” in *Literary Information in China: A History*, edited by Anatoly Detwyler, Jack Chen, Bruce Rusk, et al., Columbia University Press, 2021.

Altehenger, Jennifer. “Industrial and Chinese: Exhibiting Mao’s China at the Leipzig Trade Fairs,” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 55, no. 4 (Oct. 2020): 845–870.

Altehenger, Jennifer. “Socialist Furniture Culture: The Beijing Sawmill and the Exhibition on Comprehensive Wood Processing, 1959.” In *The Nature of Things: Realities and Conceptions of the Material in Chinese Culture*, edited by Grete Schönebeck and Philip Grimberg. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2019, 131–146.

Altehenger, Jennifer. “On Difficult New Terms: The Business of Lexicography in Mao-Era China.” Modern Asian Studies, vol. 51, no. 3 (May 2017): 622–661.

Altehenger, Jennifer. “Social Imperialism and Mao’s Three Worlds: Deng Xiaoping’s Speech to the U.N. General Assembly, 1974.” In *Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts*, edited by Rachel Hammersley. London: Bloomsbury, 2015, 175–182.