[1] She is the Claire Tow Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College.
[2] During her time at BCRW, Jakobsen started the web journal Scholar & Feminist Online.
Currently, Jakobsen serves as a principal investigator for the Gender Justice and Neoliberal Transformations Working Group, sponsored by BCRW.
[4] Jakobsen's most recent book, published in 2020 by New York University Press, covers how gender and sexuality repeatedly appear at the center of America political issues.
Jakobsen analyzes sexual politics in the first televised presidential debate, the AIDS crisis, the 2010s health care reform issues, #MeToo and more.