Janet Jakobsen


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.

Academic career

Jakobsen received her doctorate from Emory University. She taught at Wesleyan University before moving to Barnard.

Personal life

Jakobsen's partner is Wesleyan professor of English and professor of feminist, gender and sexuality studies Christina Crosby. Crosby writes about their life together after Crosby's paralyzing bike accident in her memoir, A Body, Undone: Living on After Great Pain.

Books