Erica Lehrer

Erica Lehrer is an anthropologist, curator, and academic specializing in post-Holocaust Jewish culture, museum studies, ethnography, and public scholarship. She is Assistant Professor of History and Sociology/Anthropology at Concordia University, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology and serves as director of the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence.^[1][2]

She has received a B.A. from Grinnell College and M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan.^[1]

Awards

• Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology^[2]
• Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in Jewish Studies, University of Washington^[3]
• Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign^[4]

Curatorial work

In 2013, Lehrer curated "Souvenir, Talisman, Toy," an ethnographic exhibition of historical and contemporary Polish-made figurines depicting Jews, at the Ethnographic Museum of Kraków. A smaller selection of objects and media from the exhibit was on display from July 28 – August 30, 2013, at the Galicia Jewish Museum.^[5][6][7][8]

Publications

• Na szczęście to Żyd / Lucky Jews: Poland's Jewish Figurines, Ha!art Press, 2014, ISBN 978-83-64057-42-7
• Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places, Indiana University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-253-00886-2
• co-editor, Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, ISBN 978-0-230-29672-5

References

External links

• Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence
• Souvenir, Talisman, Toy exhibition website