Jasmine English

Jasmine is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (2024-25) and will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College (2025).

Her research focuses on political behavior, interracial solidarity, and the carceral state in American politics. Ongoing projects include “Dilemmas of Accommodation,” which explores the barriers to deliberation and political action in racially diverse churches, and a series of projects on “carceral political discussion.” Across her research, Jasmine uses ethnographic methods, in-depth interviews, original surveys, and experiments. Her work has been published in the American Political Science Review and Politics, Groups, and Identities.

Jasmine received her PhD in Political Science from MIT in 2024 and graduated with degrees in Political Science and Economics from UCLA in 2018. She is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.