Brianne Jacobs

A headshot of Brianne Jacobs, a 2017 PhD graduate of Fordham's Theology Department. Jacobs is wearing a black shirt in front of a bookshelf full of books.

 

"Fordham was a wonderfully collegial and intellectually challenging place to earn my PhD. I look back with fondness at the friendships and mentorships that helped me grow in so many ways. More than that, I have deep gratitude for the high expectations, academic rigor, and breadth of material that shaped who I am as a scholar. Fordham will always be home to me."

Brianne Jacobs is Catholic feminist theologian. Her scholarship expresses the faith of Catholic Christianity in light of new and developing science and philosophy of sexual difference, with the goal of liberation and joy for all people across gender. Jacobs hold a BA in Liberal Arts from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD, an MA in Systematic Theology from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and a PhD in Systematic Theology from Fordham University. She is currently assistant professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Emmanuel College in Boston, MA. She teaches courses in Catholic Theology, Relationships and Sexuality, and Women in Christianity, she coordinates and teaches for the Women and Gender Studies Minor, and has won multiple teaching awards. She lives with her husband and three children in Massachusetts. 

Jacobs' writing has appeared in Theological Studies and America Magazine. Her first monograph, Holy Body: Gender and Sexual Difference in Theological Anthropology and Ecclesiology, will be published in October 2024.