About
Jasmine Simington is a joint doctoral student in Sociology and Public Policy. Her dissertation is a mixed-method exploration of homeownership in Charleston, SC, with a focus on heirs' property owners. She has other projects on the tax foreclosure crisis in Detroit, 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 studying federally-assisted housing policies, neighborhood quality, and residential mobility. There, she published policy briefs and reports on the Moving to Work (MTW) demonstration, housing conditions in Tribal Areas, work requirements across housing authorities, and partnerships between housing authorities and school districts.
Public scholarship is an important part of Jasmine's work. She partnered with the Marion County Coordinating Council (Marion, South Carolina) to design a community asset map, conducted research for a virtual exhibit on housing ienquality in Detroit funded by the Mellon Foundation, and helped construct an online map of complex disadvantage across the U.S. for a research project funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Jasmine is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellow and Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. Recently, Jasmine received an Emerging Inequality Scholar Award from the Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics at the University of Michigan. She is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
