W. Jake Newsome

Dr. Jake Newsome is a scholar of the Holocaust, LGBTQ history, and memory studies. His current book project, Pink Triangle Legacies: Holocaust Memory and Modern Gay Identity, explores how various actors in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United States of America transformed collective memories of the Nazis’ persecution of gays and lesbians into transnational discourses that shaped contemporary understandings of sexual identity, human rights, and citizenship. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the State University of New York at Buffalo and now works at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.