Jasmine English

She is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford (2024-25) and will be an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Reed College (2025-). She received her PhD in Political Science from MIT in 2024.

Her research focuses on political behavior, interracial solidarity, and the carceral state in American politics. Ongoing projects on interracial solidarity include “Dilemmas of Accommodation,” which explores the barriers to deliberation and political action in racially diverse churches. Her work on the carceral state includes projects on the political consequences of “carceral political discussion” and the impact of militarized policing on perceptions of the Black Lives Matter movement. Across her research, she uses ethnographic methods, in-depth interviews, original surveys, and experiments.

Her research has been published in the American Political Science Review and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She has received several awards for her research, including best paper awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA) sections on Interpretive Methods and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, APSA, the Institute for Humane Studies, the MIT Political Methodology Lab, and MIT GOV/LAB.

She received her B.A. from UCLA, where she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Political Science and Economics. She is a proud (and happily retired) former member of the UCLA Rowing Team, and was UCLA's Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2018. She is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.