She has published multiple books on women's issues in Africa, an editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and the Journal of International Politics and Development.
She is an Associate Professor of African and African-American Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, USA,[1] and has experience at many African, US, and European universities.
Yacob-Haliso has a PhD in political science from the University of Ibadan and she was an American Council of Learned Societies postdoctoral fellow at Rhodes University.
[2] She was also Global South Scholar-in-Residence at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
Yacob-Haliso has held numerous prestigious international fellowships including from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, New York; the American Council of Learned Societies; the University for Peace Africa Program & International Development Research Centre, Canada; the Graduate Institute for International Studies, Geneva; the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA); the African Studies Association Presidential Fellowship; American Political Science Association; African Association of Political Science; the African Studies Association-UK, and others.