Faculty Profiles

Regent College, Vancouver, BC 

• M.A. in Theological Studies (Expected August 2024)
• Concentration: History

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 

• Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy
• Dissertation: “Racial Diversity in British Evangelicalism: Frames, Barriers, and Practices.”

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA 

• A.B. in Sociology: magna cum laude with highest honors in department
• Undergraduate thesis (summa cum laude): “Divided by Faith: Religion, Ethnicity, and the 
  Boundaries of Belonging in Contemporary Fiji.”
• Language Citation in Urdu-Hindi.

INSIGHT, Pasadena, CA, and Mussoorie, India 

• Studied Comparative Religion and History; learned conversational Hindi and Urdu. 

Jessamin has a Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University, specialising in religion, race and ethnicity, and inequality. She has worked in international development and community development in South Asia, the US, and UK.

• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Regent College
• Founders’ Merit Award, Regent College
• Heart, Mind and Soul Entrance Scholarship, Regent College
• Graduate Fellowship in the Social Sciences, Princeton University
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (Finalist)
• Dissertation Research Grant, Sociology Department, Princeton University
• Summer Research Grant, Sociology Department, Princeton University
• Religion and Public Life Fellowship, Princeton University
• Joint Degree in Social Policy, Princeton University
• PIIRS Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Princeton University
• Critical Language Scholarship (Urdu), U.S. Department of State
• Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, Harvard University
• Pluralism Project Research Fellowship, Harvard University
• South Asia Initiative Research Grant, Harvard University
• Victor and Tara Menezes Service in India Grant, Harvard University

• Religion
• Evangelicalism
• Race and Ethnicity
• Immigration and Integration
• Pluralism
• Inequality
• Social Policy
• Qualitative Methods

In Print

• Healing the divides: How every Christian can advance God’s vision for racial justice and unity (with Jason Roach). 2022. Good Book Company.
• “The Meaning of ‘Woke’ is Changing.” Premier Christianity. July 2022.
• “Comfort, Fear, and Hospitality: Reflections on My Time with Trump Voters” in Keeping the Faith: Reflections on Politics & Christianity in the Era of Trump & Beyond. 2020. Middletown, DE: KTF Press LLC.
• “Evangelicals, Race & the Gospel” Evangelicals Now. December 2017.
• “White Evangelicals for Trump” Books and Ideas. November 2016.

Manuscripts in Progress

• “Salience of Religious Identity and Bridging Social Capital” (under review)
• “Barriers to Racial Integration in British Evangelicalism: Colonialism, Classism, and Marginalization”
• “Choosing the Lesser Evil: Shifting Moral Boundaries and Evangelical Christian Political Preferences”
• Race, Ethnicity, and the People of God: How British Evangelicals Reinforce and Contest Racial Boundaries

• “Healing the Divides.” Invited presentation and discussion for St. John’s Southall. June 19, 2023.
• “The Language of Race and Ethnicity.” Invited presentation for Regent College. February 3, 2023.
• “From Every Tribe and Tongue and Nation.” Invited lecture for Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics. June 11, 2022.
• “Should Christians Be Anti-Racist?” Invited lecture for L’Abri. June 2, 2022.
• “Race and Diversity.” Invited lectures for Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship. January 4-7, 2022.
• “Barriers to Racial Integration in British Evangelicalism: Colonialism, Classism, and Marginalization.” Paper presentation for American Sociological Association. August 10, 2020.
• “Evangelicals, Whiteness, and Trump.” Invited presentation for Rice University Religion and Public Life Program. January 24, 2020.
• “Motivations and Meanings of White Evangelical Support for Donald Trump.” Paper presentation for Chicago Ethnography Conference. March 17, 2018.
• “Motivations and Meanings of White Evangelical Support for Donald Trump.” Invited presentation for Faiths and Civil Society Unit at Goldsmiths, University of London. December 6, 2017.
• “Evangelicalism, Whiteness, and the Age of Trump.” Invited lecture for English L’Abri. November 3, 2017.
  “Evangelicals and Trump.” Invited presentation for Wheaton College sociology course. November 4, 2016.
• “Theology of the Lesser Evil: Evangelical Support for Donald Trump.” Paper presentation for the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. October 29, 2016.
• “Salience of Religious Identity and Bridging Social Capital.” Paper presentation at Princeton University. May 6, 2016.

• American Sociological Association
• Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
• British Sociological Association

• English (native fluency)
• Urdu (advanced speaking, proficient reading and writing)
• Hindi (advanced speaking, proficient reading and writing)