Joyce Penelope Jacobsen
is a former President of
Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Dr. Jacobsen was elected as the 29th President of Hobart College and the 18th President of William Smith College. Jacobsen is a scholar of economics, an award-winning teacher and an experienced administrator. She began her presidency on July 1, 2019. She is the first woman to serve as president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Jacobsen was the Andrews Professor of Economics at
Wesleyan University,
Middletown.
She was also president of the
International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE) from 2016 to 2017.
In 2021, she was awarded the
Carolyn Shaw Bell Award for furthering the status of women in the economics profession.
Education
Jacobsen earned her
A.B. from
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
in 1982 and her
Ph.D. from
Stanford University in 1991.
Awards
* 2007 Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching
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International Association for Feminist Economics
References
External links
Profile page: Joyce P. JacobsenWesleyan University
Profile page: Joyce P. JacobsenInternational Association for Feminist Economics
Interview with Joyce P. JacobsenWesleyan University
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American women economists
21st-century American economists
American educational theorists
American development economists
Feminist economists
Harvard University alumni
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Stanford University alumni
Wesleyan University faculty
1961 births
21st-century American women writers
Presidents of the International Association for Feminist Economics