Jasmine Simington

Jasmine Simington is a PhD candidate in Public Policy and Sociology researching racial and spatial inequality in housing.  Her work is published in Social Forces, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Russell Sage Foundation’s Journal of Social Sciences, and other outlets. Jasmine’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the University of Michigan Law School, and the Center for Racial Justice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Recently, she was named an Emerging Inequality Scholar by the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics and received an award from the American Sociological Association’s Sociology of Law Section.
 

Jasmine’s dissertation is a mixed methods exploration of heirs’ property ownership in Charleston, South Carolina. Other cross-disciplinary, collaborative research explores political support for reparations in Detroit and Flint, Michigan, credit access among Black homeowners, and disaster recovery in Marion County, South Carolina. Before joining the department, Jasmine worked in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute and received her BA in Sociology with honors distinction from Yale University.