Jasmin C. Howard

Jasmin C. Howard is currently a professor in the History Department at North Carolina Central University and a doctoral candidate in History at Michigan State University. She garnered an M.A. from the Ohio State University and a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Her dissertation focuses on the activism of Black students at historically Black colleges and universities during the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement in North Carolina. Additionally, she is interested in the uses of oral history and other methods to address erasures and silences in the traditional archives concerning Black women and Black people at-large. Relatedly, Jasmin has worked on three digital humanities projects during her time as a student, the Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina Project, the Civil Rights in Black and Brown Oral History Project and #Blktwitterstorians.

From 2019 to 2021, she was a CLIR Mellon Fellow for Dissertation Research in Original Sources. She published the chapter, “Texas Time: Racial Violence, Place Making, and Remembering as Resistance in Montgomery County,” in Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas by the University of Texas Press. She was the oral historian of the Joe Minter Digital Project from 2021 to 2023, which documents Joe Minter, an African American scrap materials-based artist, and African Village in America, an African American and African history focused sculpture garden in Birmingham, Alabama, that was created and maintained by Mr. Minter since 1989.