Jazmine Contreras

Social Studies

jazminec@maybeckhs.org

BA History and Political Science
California State University, Long Beach

PhD History
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Jazmine was born and raised in southern California and attended California State University, Long Beach for college. She traded in the sun and palm trees for lakes and snow when she attended the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities for her PhD. At UMN, she specialized in Holocaust and genocide studies, memory studies, and gender and sexuality in Modern Europe. She finished her dissertation, “We were all in the resistance: Historical Memory of the Holocaust and Second World War in the Netherlands,” in 2020. After graduating, she worked as an Assistant Professor of History at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. At Goucher, she taught courses on genocide, the far right, the Weimar Republic, modern Europe, and the global 20th century.

In her spare time, she continues to write and publish on Holocaust memory and the far right in the Netherlands. She also enjoys traveling, entertaining her cat, binging TV shows, and going to concerts.