Dr. Jean Krasno is a member of the faculty in the Department of Political Science at the City College of New York (CCNY) where she also holds the position of Director of the MA Program in International Relations. She is also a lecturer at Columbia University. She was a lecturer at Yale University where she has taught courses on the United Nations, UN peacekeeping, International Law, and International Organization from 1995 to 2017. She was Executive Director of the Academic Council on the United Nations System from 1998 to 2003 when the organization was housed at Yale. At Yale, she conducted the Yale-UN Oral History Project with James Sutterlin, which is housed at the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

Dr. Krasno was authorized by former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to organize his papers for publication, a project housed within the Colin Powell Center at CCNY, now the Colin Powell School. The Annan Papers, a five volume set, were published by Lynne Rienner Publishers in March 2012. She was also asked by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to publish his papers as well.