Janet L. Jacobs

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Janet Liebman Jacobs
Born1948 (age 74–75)
NationalityAmerican
EducationBS, MPA, PhD
Alma materUniversity of Colorado
Known forInterdisciplinary research in gender, religion and trauma studies
AwardsDistinguished book award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Hazel Barnes Prize, Outstanding Book Award in 2017 from the American Sociological Association
Scientific career
FieldsSociology, Sociology of Religion, Trauma in Society, Gender Analysis
InstitutionsUniversity of Colorado

For the American former baseball player, see Janet Jacobs.

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Janet Liebman Jacobs (born 1948) is an American sociologist specializing in gender and religion. Jacobs' research focuses on women, religion, ethnicity, genocide and the social psychology of gender. She has authored seven books, including Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews, [1] [2] [3] [4] for which she won the Distinguished Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, [5] [6] Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory, [7] and The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors, for which she won the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association. [8]

Jacobs is currently Professor of Sociology [9] and of Women and Gender Studies [10] at the University of Colorado, and she directs the University of Colorado Honors Program. She received her PhD from the University of Colorado in 1985. [11]

Career

Jacobs earned a BS in journalism in 1970, a Master of Public Administration degree in 1977, and a PhD in sociology at the University of Colorado in 1985. Jacobs is a tenured full professor in the Department of Sociology and professor of Women's Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. [9] She served as the director of the Women's Studies Program at this institution in 1987-1988 and again during 1997-2000; [10] she also served as director of the Farrand Academic Program from 2005-2011. Since 2014 Jacobs has directed the University of Colorado College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. Jacobs chaired the committee and has supervised research for graduates of the University of Colorado, Boulder and has received Teaching Excellence Awards from the University of Colorado in 1985, 1992 and 2001. [12]

Selected bibliography

Books

Book chapters

Journal articles

Awards and professional activities

Janet Jacobs was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict for her book The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors. [8] [15] In 2016 Janet Jacobs presented a lecture to the International Conference on Women and War in Yerevan, Armenia entitled "Gender and the Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma: Family Narratives and the Construction of Identity Among Descendants of the Holocaust". [16] Jacobs also presented a lecture entitled "Gender and Holocaust Memorialization" at the Conference in Jewish and Gender Studies in honor of Debra Kaufman at Northeastern University in 2012. In 2011 Jacobs presented the Stanley L. Saxton Address "Gender and Genocide: Collective Memory and Holocaust Memorials" at the University of Dayton.

Jacobs in 2010 presented the Keynote Paul Hanley Furfey Lecture for the Association for the Sociology of Religion entitled "Sacred Space and Collective Memory: Memorializing Genocide at Sites of Terror". [17] Jacobs was awarded the Hazel Barnes Prize at the University of Colorado in 2005. [18] She was also awarded the Distinguished Book Award in 2003 from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for her Book Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. [19] In 2000 Jacobs was awarded the Gender Scholar Award from the Association for the Sociology of Religion. She gave the 2005 Commencement Address at the University of Colorado. [20] In 2012, Jacobs received the Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association's Children and Youth section. [5]

Affiliations

Jacobs has served on the Awards Committee (2013–15); Nominating Committee (2004–10 and 1994–96); and on the Executive Council (1997–98) for the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion and was the Annual Meeting Program Chair in 1990. [21] Jacobs served as the editor for NYU Press Qualitative Study of Religion series. Jacobs has also served as a Referee for the American Sociological Review ; Gender and Society; Journal of Contemporary Ethnography ; Journal for Research on Adolescence; Signs: Journal of Women and Society; Social Problems; Sociology of Religion and was both Referee and on the Editorial Board (2003–12) for the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion . Jacobs has served as a Manuscript Consultant for the Columbia University Press; Oxford University Press; Duke University Press; University of Tennessee Press, University of California Press; and New York University Press. Professional Affiliations include the American Academy of Religion; American Sociological Association; Association for the Sociology of Religion; Society for the Scientific Study of Religion; and the International Visual Sociology Association. [22]

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References

  1. ↑ Jacobs, Janet (2002). Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. University of California Press.
  2. ↑ Ward, Seth (2005). "Hidden Heritage, the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (review)". Shofar. 24 (1): 155–157. doi:10.1353/sho.2005.0207. S2CID   141595941. Project MUSE   188365.
  3. ↑ Neulander, Judith S. "Reviewed Work: Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews by Janet Liebman Jacobs". Western Folklore. JSTOR   1500440.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ Entine, Jon (27 August 2014). "The 'Jew' In All Of Us". Science 2.0. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  5. 1 2 "Faculty Awards". Department of Sociology. University of Colorado. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "Past Award Winners". Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Archived from the original on 2010-02-06.
  7. ↑ Jacobs, Janet (2010). Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory. I.B. Tauris.
  8. 1 2 "The Holocaust Across Generations Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors". NYU Press. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Janet Jacobs". Department of Sociology. University of Colorado Boulder. Archived from the original on 2015-02-16.
  10. 1 2 "Janet Jacobs". Women and Gender Studies. University of Colorado Boulder. Archived from the original on 2015-02-16. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
  11. ↑ "Janet Jacobs". Honors Program. University of Colorado Boulder.
  12. ↑ "Teaching Excellence Awards". Boulder Faculty Assembly. University of Colorado Boulder. Retrieved 13 October 2017.
  13. ↑ Wolf, Diane L. "Reviewed Work: Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory. by Janet Jacobs". Signs. doi:10.1086/658642. JSTOR   10.1086/658642.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. ↑ Azria, Régine. "Reviewed Work: Hidden Heritage. The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews by Janet Liebman Jacobs". Archives de sciences sociales des religions. JSTOR   30135539.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  15. ↑ "Awards". NYU Press. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  16. ↑ "AFTER GENOCIDE: GENDERED TRAUMA, TRANSMISSION AND REINVENTION, YEREVAN SEPTEMBER 17-18-19". Women in War. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  17. ↑ "List of ASR/ACSS Presidents" (PDF). Sociology of Religion.
  18. ↑ "CU-Boulder Sociologist Janet Jacobs Wins University's Top Teaching And Research Award". University of Colorado. Archived from the original on 2014-10-12.
  19. ↑ "Annual Awards & Grants: Past Winners". Distinguished Book Awards. Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. Archived from the original on 6 February 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  20. ↑ "Janet Jacobs Commencement speech". Commencement UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  21. ↑ Review of Religious Research. Religious Research Association. 1990.
  22. ↑ "Qualitative Studies in Religion". NYU Press. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
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