PhD in African and African American Studies, 2014. Director, Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies. Lecturer in African and African American Studies, Harvard University.
Hutchins Fellow, W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center, Harvard University, 2016-2017.
PhD in Psychology, 2014. Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, London School of Economics and Political Science.
British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow, 2015-2017.
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington's dissertation, “Society in Mind: The manifestation of structural power and status differences in cognitive and regulatory domains,” was awarded the Harvard University Richard J. Herrnstein Prize (2014-2015) and received an Honorable Mention from the International Society for Political Psychology Best Dissertation Award.
PhD in Sociology, 2010. Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, The Graduate Institute, Geneva.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Vice Chair, Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Social Inequality, University of Rio de Janeiro (on leave from 2016).