Jasmine Ehrhardt
Curriculum Vitae
Ann Arbor, MI
Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D. American Culture, Certificate in Digital Studies (2018 – May 2027)
Dissertation: “Making the High-Tech Prison: Media, Infrastructure, and Counter-Narratives of the Digital”
Committee: Lisa Nakamura (co-chair), John Cheney-Lippold (co-chair), Sharon Luk, Daniel Nemser
Embedded Master of Arts in American Culture, completed December 2023
University of California, Santa Cruz
B.A. World Literature & Cultural Studies; Film & Digital Media (2012-2016)
Publications
Lee, C. J., Ehrhardt, J. “Driverless Cars, Realtors, and Transphobes: Three ‘Victims’ of Anti-Asian Attack?” Amerasia Journal, 50 (3), 276-292, https://doi.org/10.1080/00447471.2025.2594971.
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.
Works in Progress
Collaborative Monograph: 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 (Brian Chen, Julie Chu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, Tara Fickle, Huan He, Grace Kyungwon Hong, Paul Kim, Lisa Nakamura, and K. Ian Shin).
Fellowships, Awards, and Grants
David and Mary Hunting Graduate Fellow, Institute of the Humanities, University of Michigan (2026)
Sweetland Dissertation Writing Institute Fellowship, UM (2024)
Rackham Ph.D. Candidate Research Grant, UM (2023)
Rackham Pre-Candidate Research Grant, UM (2021)
Rackham Spring/Summer Mentor Research Program, with John Cheney-Lippold, UM (2020)
Rackham Spring/Summer Mentor Research Program, with Lisa Nakamura, UM (2019)
Rackham Merit Fellowship, UM (2018)
Symposia, Invited Talks, and Workshops
“Driverless Cars, Realtors, and Transphobes: Three ‘Victims’ of Anti-Asian Attack?” a symposium on “Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories,” sponsored by Amerasia Journal, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, May 1, 2026.
“Doxxing and Feminist Aftercare,” Brokenness and Survivalism, Digital IDEAS Summer Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, June 23-27, 2025 (workshop).
“Infrastructural Fugitivities” in Abolitionist Study: Knowledge Production in US Prisons, Wellesley University, Wellesley, MA, November 16, 2023 (invited talk).
Conference Presentations
“Tech Fuels Fascism: Defensive Strikes Against Driverless Cars,” Cinema and Media Studies in Solidarity with Palestine Parallel Conference, Northwestern University, March 25-29, 2026.
“Alt-Right Asians,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 19-22, 2025.
“Influencers, Landlords, Venture Capitalists, and Cops: Figures of Asian American Neoconservatism and Neoliberalism,” Association for Asian American Studies 2025 Conference, Boston, MA, April 17-19, 2025.
“Platform Carcerality and Tax Break Fascism: Asian American Far-Right Social Media Networks,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 14-17, 2024.
“Platforming “Asian Hate”: Infrastructures and Networks of Asian American Fascism,” Association for Asian American Studies 2024 Conference, Seattle, WA, April 25-27, 2024.
“Love and Struggle: Abolitionist Solidarity and Infrastructures of Care and Critique Across Prison Walls” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montréal, Quebec, November 2-5, 2023.
“Identify and Surveil: A Roundtable Discussion on Digital Surveillance, Anti-Asian Racism, and the Carceral State,” Chair, Association for Asian American Studies 2023 Conference, Long Beach, CA, April 6-9, 2023.
“Abolitionist Media Making and Inside-Outside Collaboration,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, November 3-6, 2022.
“One Hundred Years of Ethnonationalism: Marketing Diversity and Nationalism on YouTube,” Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Denver, CO, April 1-5, 2020 (canceled due to COVID-19).
“Stalking in the City: Media Production, Platform, and Women in the ‘Alt-Right,’” Cultural Formations of the Alt-Right, Ann Arbor, MI, September 12-13, 2019.
“‘France will not be France for long’: Paranoid Reading and Recruitment to the Alt-Right,” Gender and Ethnonationalism: A New Era of Reproductive Choices and Constraints?, Münster, Germany, June 27-29, 2019.
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.
Courses Taught
• Fall 2025 – History of the Internet, University of Michigan (Graduate Student Instructor)
• Fall 2022 – Introduction to Arab American Studies, UM (GSI)
• Winter 2020, Winter 2021 – Digital Cultures, UM (GSI)
• Fall 2020 – Honors College Writing: Westworld and Western Philosophy, UM (GSI)
• Fall 2019, Fall 2021 – Introduction to Asian American Studies, UM (GSI)
Guest Lectures
“Anti-Blackness and Islamophobia in the US Prison Regime” in Introduction to Arab American and Muslim Studies, University of Michigan, December 1, 2022.
“Incarceration, Deportation, and APIA Studies” in Introduction to Asian and Pacific Islander American Studies, UM, November 15, 2021.
“Predictive Policing and Data Visualization” in Introduction to Digital Cultures, UM, February 10, 2021.
“Mass Incarceration and Deportation in the 21st Century: Asian Americans in the Prison- and Immigration-Industrial Complex,” in Introduction to Asian American Studies, UM, December 9, 2019.
Service
Graduate Student Mentor, Department of American Culture, UM (Fall 2022-Winter 2023).
Graduate Student Assistant, Dissertation Writing Group Facilitator, Department of American Culture, UM (Fall 2026-Winter 2027).
Professional Organizations
• American Studies Association, 2022-present
• Association for Asian American Studies, 2023-present
• Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2019-2021