Jasmine Harris

Jasmine Harris, Ph.D., is a professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her expertise includes African studies, race, ethnicity, education, intersectionality, social inequality, the sociology of education and belonging, media, public scholarship, and pedagogy.

Harris has more than a decade of experience in higher education. She began her career as a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Wake Forest University, later serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Ursinus College. She then became program coordinator of African American studies at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Her research and teaching focus on the academic success of underrepresented identities in higher education, particularly the impact of role and status on diverse Black experiences in academia.

Harris has been published in national outlets including Newsweek, The Washington Post, the Houston Chronicle, and the Chicago Tribune. In 2021, she was featured in the Vice News documentary College Sports, Inc.

She earned a doctorate in sociology from the University of Minnesota in 2013, a master’s in journalism and public communications from Syracuse University in 2006, and a bachelor’s in sociology from Vassar College in 2005.

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