About
Jennifer Rich is the Executive Director of the Rowan Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights, and a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey.
Her most recent book is Paper Tombs: Post-Holocaust Memorial Books and Prewar Jewish Life (NYU Press, in association with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). She is the author of two previous books, Keepers of Memory: The Holocaust and Transgenerational Identity, and Politics, Education, and Social Problems: Complicated Classroom Conversations.​
Research Interests
Jennifer's interdisciplinary research falls under the broad umbrella of Holocaust memory, and is animated by questions about what is remembered, who carries those memories, and what survivors wanted future generations to remember.
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​A corollary to her work on Holocaust memory is her work on Holocaust education. She sees the two as intertwined; put simply, we can’t teach what we don’t remember or prioritize as important. ​
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Her research in the area of Holocaust education has explored what preservice teachers know about the Holocaust, the efficacy of new technologies for teaching and learning about the Holocaust, and what best practices for teaching about learning about genocide really are.