Jasmin A. Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. As a Visiting Scholar at Harvard's Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, she will develop her manuscript, Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance, SNCC, and the Black Liberation Struggle. This work fundamentally rethinks the history of the Black Liberation struggle by placing Black women’s armed activity at the center of the Civil Rights and Black Power Movements. The project explores Black women's extensive practice and advocacy of armed resistance.

Dr. Young’s research interests center on the intellectual history of Black women, state violence and resistance, and radical Black feminism. These interests are woven into her scholarship, professional service, and passion projects. Her latest article, “Armed Self-Defense, Gloria Richardson, and the Struggle for Black Liberation in Cambridge, Maryland,” appeared in the Journal of African American History. Her work has also appeared in Souls, the Journal of African American Studies, and the Black Scholar.

She co-edited the Black Power Encyclopedia: From “Black is Beautiful” to Urban Uprisings (Greenwood Press, 2018). This two-volume reference offers a cross-disciplinary and broad approach to the movement and explores the emergence and evolution of the Black Power Movement in the United States. Dr. Young is also developing a digital humanities project, the Black Power Digital Archive (BPDA), which collects, preserves, and conducts oral histories with Black Power activists.

She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from California State University, Northridge, an M.A. in African American Studies from Columbia University, and an M.S.c in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Young received her Ph.D. in History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2018. After earning her Ph.D. she was a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA.