Jasmine Abukar

Jasmine Abukar, Ph.D., is a Clinical Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Student Personnel Assistantship Program within the Department of Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. Prior to becoming a faculty member, she worked as a student affairs practitioner and educator. She currently teaches and researches higher education, with foci in teaching and learning, college activism, labor, and resistance, interdisciplinary perspectives on race and gender, qualitative methodologies, as well as critical and culturally based theories.

Due to her administrative appointment and faculty status, Dr. Abukar does not advise doctoral students.

• Ph.D., Teaching and Learning (Multicultural and Equity Studies in Education), The Ohio State University
• M.A., Educational Studies (Higher Education and Student Affairs), The Ohio State University
• B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Fairfield University

• Cultural Studies
• Curriculum and Instruction
  • Pedagogy in higher education
• Equity
• Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA)
  • Graduate student socialization
  • Labor and organizing
  • Marginzalized communities' navigation of oppression within education
• Social Justice
• Women's Studies
  • Feminist and cultural methodologies
  • Gender studies
  • Intersectional perspectives on feminisim

• Abukar, J., Combs, L. D., McKinney, N., Rivera, J., Khalayleh, N., Lu, R., Washington, L. (in press). (Dis)engaged and unsupported: Women of color graduate students and institutional failures amid COVID-19. Journal of Women and Gender in Higher Education.
• Abukar, J. (2026). Problem of practice: A multilevel and intersectional case of student-athlete academic engagement. In S. J. N. A. K. Quaye & S. L. Pendakur (Eds)., Student engagement in higher education: Theoretical perspectives and Practical approaches for diverse populations (4th ed.; Ch. 23). Routledge.
• Quaye, S. J., Satterwhite, E. M., & Abukar, J. (2023). Black women’s narratives navigating gendered racism in student affairs. Education Sciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci13090874
• Patton, L. D., Haynes, C., Abukar, J., & McCollum, S. A. (2023). A special kind of hate: Black women college students’ experiences with gendered anti-black incidents of violence on campus. New Directions for Student Services, 2023 (182), 45-55.

• Abukar, J. (2021). Writing to the choir: The imperative of rest for women of color in graduate school. In O. Johnson, E. Templeton, & B. Love (Eds.), Elevating marginalized voices in academe: Lessons for a new generation of scholars (pp. 73-76). Routledge.

• Patton, L. D., Haynes, C., Abukar, J. (2022, April 21-26). When they (fail to) see us: An analysis of gendered, anti-Black incidents targeting Black women college students [Roundtable presentation]. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA and Virtual. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera22/#selected_tag
• McMillian, R., Abukar, J., & Patton, L. D. (2022, April 21-26). Policy meets urban schooling: Black high school students' educational pathways under the Missouri transfer law [Roundtable presentation]. AERA Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA and Virtual. https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/aera/aera22/#selected_tag
• Combs, L. D., McKinney, N., Khalayleh, N., Abukar, J., Rivera, J., Lu, R., & Washington, L. (2021, November 3-6). Fighting oppression with unity: Building solidarity among women of color graduate students during COVID-19 [Paper presentation]. ASHE Annual Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico. https://www.ashe.ws//Files/Past%20Conferences/ASHE%202021%20Program%20Book.pdf
• Abukar, J., Lu, R., Rivera, J., Combs, L. D., Khalayleh, N., McKinney, N. (2021, October 29). Lessons from intersectionality and interconnectivity: Graduate women of color as emerging researchers [Interactive Symposium]. ASHE Council on Ethnic Participation Pre-Conference, Virtual. https://www.ashe.ws//Files/Past%20Conferences/ASHE%202021%20Program%20Book.pdf
• Abukar, J. (2020, May 26–30). #ProtectMaunaKea: The role of social media in cultural student activism [Poster presentation]. National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE), New York City, NY, United States. https://www.ncore.ou.edu/en/nyc/ (Conference canceled).