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Janet Liebman Jacobs
Nationality:	American
Fields:	Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Trauma in Society, Gender Analysis
Workplaces:	University of Colorado
Education:	BS, MPA, PhD
Alma Mater:	University of Colorado
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Known For:	Interdisciplinary research in gender, religion and trauma studies
Awards:	Distinguished book award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Hazel Barnes Prize, Outstanding Book Award in 2017 from the American Sociological Association
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For the American former baseball player, see Janet Jacobs.

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 to 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: Janet Jacobs. The Holocaust Across Generations: Trauma and Its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors. 3 January 2017. NYU Press. 978-1-4798-3356-6.
• Book: Janet Jacobs. Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory. 30 July 2010. I.B.Tauris. 978-0-85771-811-2. 5–. ^[13]
• Book: Janet Liebman Jacobs. Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. 2002. University of California Press. 978-0-520-23346-1. ^[14]
• Book: Jacobs. Janet. Religion, Society and Psychoanalysis. 1997. Westview Press. 2015-03-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20161220144934/http://www.psychology-book.net/book/Religion-Society-And-Psychoanalysis/9780813326481/. 2016-12-20. dead.
• Book: Jacobs. Janet. William James: The Struggle for Life. 1995. Princeton University Monograph. 1882380029.
• Book: Jacobs. Janet. Victimized Daughters: Incest and the Development of the Female Self. 1994. Routledge. 978-0-415-90626-5.
• Book: Jacobs. Janet. Divine Disenchantment: Deconversion from New Religious Movements. 1989. Indiana University Press. 978-0253323965. registration.

Book chapters

• "Religious Ritual and Mental Health," John Schumaker, ed., Religion and Mental Health (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992), 291-294.
• "Sexual Abuse in New Religious Movements: Challenges for the Sociology of Religion" in Book: Bromley. David. Teaching New Religious Movements. 2007. Oxford University Press. 978-0195177299.
• "Gender Representation and the Objectification of Jewish Women at Majdanek" in Book: Steir. Oren. Religion, violence, memory, and place. 2006. Indiana University Press. 978-0253347992. 2006019152.
• "Reassessing Freud: Gender, Ethnicity and the Production of Scientific Thought" in Book: Jonte-Pace. Diane. Teaching Freud. 2003. Oxford University Press. 0195157680.

Journal articles

• Jacobs, Janet L. "The Memorial at Srebrenica: Gender and the Social Meanings of Collective Memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina," Memory Studies, June 5, 2016.
• Jacobs, Janet L. "Sites of Terror and the Role of Memory in Shaping Identity Among First Generation Descendants of the Holocaust", Qualitative Sociology 37 (Spring 2014): 27-42.
• Jacobs, Janet L. "The Cross Generational Transmission of Trauma: Ritual and Emotion Among Survivors of the Holocaust," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 40 (Spring 2011): 342-361; reprinted in Religion on the Edge: De-Centering and Re-Centering the Sociology of Religion (Oxford University Press, 2013).
• Jacobs, Janet L. "Memoralizing the Sacred: Kristallnacht in German National Memory," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 47 (Fall 2008): 485-498.
• Jacobs, Janet L. "Gender, Race, Class, and the Trend Toward Early Motherhood: A Feminist Analysis of Teen Mothers in Contemporary Society." Journal of contemporary ethnography 22.4 (1994): 442-462.
• Jacobs, Janet L. "The effects of ritual healing on female victims of abuse: A study of empowerment and transformation." Sociology of Religion 50.3 (1989): 265-279.
• Jacobs, Janet Liebman. "Reassessing mother blame in incest." Signs (1990): 500-514.
• Jacobs, Janet L. "Gender and power in new religious movements: A feminist discourse on the scientific study of religion 1." Religion 21.4 (1991): 345-356.

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.^[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.

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]

See also

• Crypto-Judaism

External links

• Faculty website
• Reviewed Work: Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews by Janet Liebman Jacobs; Review by: Stephen D. Glazier
• Review of Hidden heritage. The legacy of the crypto-Jews, by Renée Levine Melammed

Notes and References

1. Book: Jacobs. Janet. Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews. 2002. University of California Press.
2. Ward . Seth . Hidden Heritage, the Legacy of the Crypto-Jews (review) . Shofar . 2005 . 24 . 1 . 155–157 . . 10.1353/sho.2005.0207 . 141595941 .
3. Neulander. Judith S. Reviewed Work: Hidden Heritage: The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews by Janet Liebman Jacobs. 1500440. Western Folklore.
4. Web site: Entine. Jon. The 'Jew' In All Of Us. Science 2.0. 27 August 2014 . 2 April 2015.
5. Web site: Faculty Awards . Department of Sociology . University of Colorado . 2 April 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150404160625/https://sociology.colorado.edu/people/faculty-awards . 4 April 2015 .
6. Web site: Past Award Winners . Society for the Scientific Study of Religion . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100206081124/http://www.sssrweb.org/PastWinners.cfm . 2010-02-06 .
7. Book: Jacobs. Janet. Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory. 2010. I.B. Tauris.
8. Web site: The Holocaust Across Generations Trauma and its Inheritance Among Descendants of Survivors. NYU Press. 12 October 2017.
9. Web site: Janet Jacobs . Department of Sociology . University of Colorado Boulder . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150216083940/http://sociology.colorado.edu/people/jacobs-janet . 2015-02-16 .
10. Web site: Janet Jacobs. Women and Gender Studies. University of Colorado Boulder. 2015-03-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20150216093058/http://wgst.colorado.edu/faculty/jacobs. 2015-02-16. dead.
11. Web site: Janet Jacobs. Honors Program. University of Colorado Boulder.
12. Web site: Teaching Excellence Awards. Boulder Faculty Assembly. University of Colorado Boulder. 13 October 2017.
13. Wolf. Diane L. Reviewed Work: Memorializing the Holocaust: Gender, Genocide and Collective Memory. by Janet Jacobs. 10.1086/658642. Signs. 10.1086/658642.
14. Azria. Régine. Reviewed Work: Hidden Heritage. The Legacy of the Crypto-Jews by Janet Liebman Jacobs. 30135539. Archives de sciences sociales des religions.
15. Web site: Awards. NYU Press. 9 October 2017.
16. Web site: AFTER GENOCIDE: GENDERED TRAUMA, TRANSMISSION AND REINVENTION, YEREVAN SEPTEMBER 17-18-19. Women in War. 11 October 2017.
17. Web site: List of ASR/ACSS Presidents. Sociology of Religion.
18. Web site: CU-Boulder Sociologist Janet Jacobs Wins University's Top Teaching And Research Award . University of Colorado . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141012155820/https://chancellor.colorado.edu/cu-boulder-sociologist-janet-jacobs-wins-universitys-top-teaching-and-research-award . 2014-10-12 .
19. Web site: Annual Awards & Grants: Past Winners . Distinguished Book Awards . Society for the Scientific Study of Religion . 2 April 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100206081124/http://www.sssrweb.org/PastWinners.cfm . 6 February 2010 .
20. Web site: Janet Jacobs Commencement speech. Commencement UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER. UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER. 5 October 2015. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304111954/http://www.colorado.edu/commencement/2005/12/16/janet-jacobs-winter-2005. 4 March 2016.
21. Book: Review of Religious Research. 1990. Religious Research Association..
22. Web site: Qualitative Studies in Religion. NYU Press. 2 April 2015.