Dr. Jocelyn Barrett

Dr. Barrett joined the Mandel Center in 2022 and currently serves as Program Coordinator for Visiting Scholar Programs, which supports advanced research and writing on the Holocaust and related topics. In this role, she helps coordinate the Center’s annual fellowship program for scholars across disciplines and career stages, as well as the summer graduate student research fellowship for early-career scholars.

Dr. Barrett’s research focuses on reconciliation during genocide, social identity formation under Nazi persecution, and community resilience in the aftermath of mass violence. She also examines gaps in Holocaust scholarship around sexualized violence and neglected victim groups. Her work engages comparative case studies across the Holocaust and other genocides, with particular attention to intergroup relationships and transitional justice.

Before coming to the Museum, Dr. Barrett was a contractor at George Mason University’s Center for Resilient and Sustainable Communities and held positions with Genocide Watch and the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center. In 2017, she was a Summer Graduate Student Research Assistant at the Museum, working with the International Tracing Service (ITS). Dr. Barrett was also a visiting professor at the Protestant University of Rwanda in Butare.

Education

• PhD, Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2023

• MA, Holocaust and Genocide studies, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, 2017

• BA, history, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Galloway, New Jersey, 2015

Languages

• English

• German

Select Presentations and Interviews

• "Reframing Peace Education: A Social Identity-Based Model for Reconciliation During Conflict," Peace and Conflict Studies Journal Conference, Nova Southeastern University, January 15, 2026

• "From Healing to Violence: Social Identity in Genocide and Reconciliation," Protestant University of Rwanda, October 25, 2024

• "The Effects of Education on the Perceptions of Social Distance," Conference of Collaborative Applied Research, University of Nis, November 10, 2023

• "Tolerance Promotion and Conflict Resolution: Case Studies," University of Nis, Serbia, July 9, 2022

• "Rescue and Children: The Kindertransport," Drawing Against Oblivion: Portraits of Children of the Holocaust, Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, 2016

• "One Nation Under Hitler: Building The Image of the Fuhrer Through Nazi Painting and Sculpture," Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, 2016

• "Cartoons of World War II," Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, 2015

• "Defining Genocide: A Look at Neglected Victim Groups," Stockton University, Galloway, New Jersey, 2015