Political Science Department

Jasmine English

Assistant Professor of Political Science

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American politics, political behavior, politics of behavior, the American carceral state

PhD, Political Science, MIT. MA, Political Science, MIT. BA, Political Science and Economics, UCLA.

Jasmine English joined the political science faculty at Reed College in Fall 2025. Her research focuses on political behavior, the politics of identity, and the carceral state in American Politics. Jasmine's research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Perspectives on Politics, and Politics, Groups, and Identities. She has received several awards for her research, including the Lucian Pye Award for Best Doctoral Thesis in Political Science at MIT, the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, and best paper awards from the American Political Science Association sections on Political Psychology, Political Communication, Interpretive Methods, and Qualitative and Multi-Method Research. 

Before Reed, Jasmine was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She received her PhD in Political Science from MIT and graduated summa cum laude with degrees in Political Science and Economics from UCLA. Jasmine is originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland.