I am committed to the culturally restorative power of research.
My research and teaching focus, as well as my administrative interests, center on the academic experiences of underrepresented students and faculty, institutional racism, and pedagogical innovations in teaching racism and privilege in higher education classrooms.
– Jasmine Harris
Dr. Jasmine L. Harris
Dr. Jasmine L. Harris is Associate Professor of African-American Studies and Coordinator of the African-American Studies Program in the Department of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas, San Antonio. Dr. Harris completed her PhD at the University of Minnesota in 2013, working first as Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Wake Forest University before joining the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ursinus College outside of Philadelphia in 2014. She earned tenure in 2020.
Dr. Harris views her research, teaching, and service as intertwined, each influencing and shaping the others. Her examinations of Black life in predominately white spaces are founded on personal experiences, including Black students at PWIs, Black DI football and men's basketball players at universities in the Power 5 conferences, and Black sociologists producing knowledge in a white-dominated discipline. Dr. Harris has been published in major national newspapers, including the Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. She was recently featured in the Vice News documentary "College Sports, Inc."
Repped by The Howland Literary Agency in New York City, her forthcoming book, Black Women, Ivory Tower: Revealing the Lies of White Supremacy in American Education, is forthcoming in 2024 from Broadleaf Books.
