About

Dr. Jasmine Noelle Yarish (Dr. JNY) is a professional academic and university/college instructor. She is an assistant professor of political science and coordinator of the global studies concentration at the University of the District of Columbia. Her expertise is in the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and democratic theory. Her research aims to extend the idea of abolition democracy theorized by W.E.B. Du Bois to include the political and intellectual contributions made by Black women to the era of Reconstruction (1850-1880). Her archival commitments to revisiting that early period of contemporary political thought, the primary democratization period in American political development, and the unique case of Philadelphia in rethinking the significance of Reconstruction for the discipline of political science and the globe place Dr. JNY's scholarship as part and parcel of the growing literature on the "Third Reconstruction."