Janet Jacobs

Professor

Director - Farrand, Residential Academic Program
Women's Studies Cottage 200

 

 

 

Research Interests: qualitative sociology, gender, social psychology and religion

Jacobs' research focuses on women, ethnicity and the social psychology of identity formation. Her books include Divine Disenchantment: Deconverting from New Religious Movements, Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Femal Self and most recently, Ritual and Remembrance: Crypto-Jewish Heritage and the Recovery of Hidden Ancestry(forthcoming). She is editor of Religion, Society and Psychoanalysis and William James: The Struggle for Life. Her articles have been published in Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and The Sociology of Religion. She is currently engaged in a study of gender and Holocaust remembrance in Eastern Europe.