Jasmine L Ehrhardt
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow, Institute of the Humanities University of Michigan
PhD Candidate in American Culture and Digital Studies
About me
Areas of study:
critical prison studies,
digital media studies,
Asian American studies
Current Projects:
Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire (advance contract pending for paper and rich-digital publication, Stanford University Press. Authored by the A.I.eeeee Collective.
Making the High-Tech Prison: Media, Infrastructure, and Counter-Narratives of the Digital (dissertation)
Published Works
Lee, C. J., Ehrhardt, J. “Driverless Cars, Realtors, and Transphobes: Three ‘Victims’ of Anti-Asian Attack?” Amerasia Journal, 50 (3), 276-292.
Ehrhardt, J., Nakamura, L. (2023). “Infrastructural fugitivity: contraband cellphones, TikTok, and vital media behind bars.” Journal of Visual Culture, 21 (3), 390-409.
The Digital Inequality Lab (March 2022). “The Lag Manifesto.” Afterimage, 49 (1), 110-126.
Media Appearances
“Sweaty DesperAzn with Chris Lee and Jasmine Lee Ehrhardt,” Sad Francisco Podcast, May 18, 2026.
“Waymos Aren’t Asian with Jasmine Lee Ehrhardt,” Sad Francisco Podcast, Jan 27, 2025.
“Crimmigration and Internationalist Abolition,” Rustbelt Abolition Radio, Feb 26, 2020.