Yolande Jansen is Associate Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, she is the chair of Dutch Scholars for Palestine (DSP).
Jansen studied Philosophy and French Studies at the University of Amsterdam and at the University of Paris VII.
Jansen was a member of the board of the Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies and fulfilled various tasks for NWO, The Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research. She was a Professor by special appointment for the Socrates-foundation at VU University on the chair for 'humanism in relation to religion and secularity' between 2013-2026.
Jansen teaches recent political and social theory, focusing on philosophy and decolonisation, multiculturalism, human rights, and the European border regime, as well as antisemitism, islamophobia and secularism in relation to European coloniality.
She was the principal investigator of the NWO-project (2013-2018): 'Critique of Religion; Framing Jews and Muslims, Islam and Judaism in Political theory and public debate today', together with Thijl Sunier, Professor of Islam in European Societies. Matthea Westerduin and Anna Blijdenstein wrote dissertations within this project.