Director, Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies
Dr. Young is an internationally recognized scholar on memory studies and the role of monuments in public space, particularly regarding contested histories.
Statues are coming down, debates are heating up, and communities are divided over who controls public memory. Dr. James Young, Dr. Susan Neiman, and Dr. David Frydl examine who gets to decide which moments are commemorated in public spaces — and whether erasing a monument is ever the same as erasing history.
