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Gender and sexuality scholar From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Janet R. Jakobsen is a scholar of gender and sexuality. She is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College and Director of Barnard's Center for Research on Women. She has also been Barnard's Dean for Faculty Diversity and Development.[1]
Janet Jakobsen | |
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Education | Emory University |
Occupation | Professor |
Employer | Barnard College |
Notable work | Working Alliances and the Politics of Difference: Diversity and Feminist Ethics Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance with Ann Pellegrini |
Title | Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies |
Partner | Christina Crosby |
Jakobsen received her doctorate from Emory University.[2] She taught at Wesleyan University before moving to Barnard.[3]
Jakobsen's partner was the Wesleyan professor of English and professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies Christina Crosby,[3] until Crosby's death in 2021. Crosby writes about their life together after Crosby's paralyzing bike accident in her memoir, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain.[4]
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