Dr. Jasmin A. Young is a historian of Black women’s history, intellectual history, resistance, and radical Black feminism. She is currently working on a book project that examines Black women’s responses to state and white vigilante violence as they organized for Black liberation.

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 holds a B.A. in Pan African 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.