Dr. Jasmine L. Harris is a tenured professor, published author, award-winning researcher, and speaker on the issues of Black marginalization at school, at work, and in treatment. She's available to speak to school faculty and administrators, organizational decision-makers, and scholars interested in learning from and about communities to which they are responsible but unfamiliar.
More specifically, Dr. Harris is an 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 Ph.D. 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, influencing and shaping each other. Her examinations of Black life in predominately white spaces are founded on personal experiences. They include 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 newspapers across the country, including the Houston Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune. She was recently featured in the Vice News documentary, "College Sports, Inc." Represented by The Howland Literary Agency in New York City, her forthcoming book, "Blackademics: The Disturbing Education of Black Girls in American Schools" is a lead title from Broadleaf Books for publication in Spring 2024.
