Jazmine Contreras

Jazmine Contreras is an Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College. She completed her doctorate in European history at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Her manuscript, ‘We were all in the resistance’: Historical Memory of the Holocaust and Second World War analyzes the longevity of the Dutch postwar resistance narrative and the marginalization of wartime Jewish experience to better understand the evolution of physical sites and spaces of Holocaust memory. Through an analysis of contemporary monuments, museums, and commemorations, this work explores how state institutions, nonprofits, and victim-centered organizations interact with one another and the public on the development of new memorial spaces. At Goucher, her classes seek to complicate students’ ideas of race, gender and sexuality, and violence within Europe.