Hanne Jacobs

I am associate professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University (the Netherlands). Before joining the faculty at Tilburg, I was associate professor of philosophy and director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Loyola University Chicago (US). I received a PhD in philosophy from the Institute of Philosophy at KU Leuven (Belgium).

My philosophical research has focused on the history of phenomenology (primarily the work of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty) and on the topics of attention, ignorance, and embodied agency as they are discussed in phenomenology, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, critical philosophy of race, social epistemology, and contemporary philosophy of art.

In my current research, I focus on topics and issues in critical neurodiversity studies from a phenomenological perspective, with a particular focus on autism. In this context, I aim to leverage phenomenological resources to develop participatory and neurodivergence-affirmative research methodologies and theoretical frameworks with researchers form other disciplines and (other) neurodivergent people. In collaboration with the Academic Workplace Inclusive Labor Market at Tilburg University and colleagues I conduct qualitative empirical research into how everyday environments can be designed to improve accessibility. Together with colleagues in higher education, I am committed to changing the way we teach and assess to improve accessibility together with and for students that face barriers (including neurodivergent student). For more on this interdisciplinary research see: https://research.tilburguniversity.edu/en/persons/hanne-jacobs/projects/

I am the co-editor of Husserl Studies (together with Walter Hopp) and series editor of the Series in Continental Thought at Ohio University Press.