Erica Lehrer (born 1969) is an anthropologist, curator, and academic specializing in post- Holocaust Jewish culture, museum studies, ethnography, and public scholarship. She is Associate Professor of History and Sociology/Anthropology at Concordia University, where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies and serves as director of the Curating and Public Scholarship Lab at Concordia University. ^{[1] [2]}

Education

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

Career

In 2013, Lehrer curated "Souvenir, Talisman, Toy," an ethnographic exhibition of historical and contemporary Polish-made figurines depicting Jews (including the modern antisemitic Jew with a coin figurines), 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. ^{[3] [4] [5]} In 2016, she curated a new exhibition at the Galicia Jewish Museum titled "A Single Point Perspective/Punkt Zbiezny."

Personal life and family

Lehrer's uncle was physicist Frederick Reif, who was married to Mildred Dresselhaus. ^[6] Her mother, Liane Reif-Lehrer, was a Holocaust survivor and professor at Harvard Medical School. ^{[7] [8]} Her brother, Damon Lehrer, is a children's book author. ^[9]

Awards

• Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies ^[2]
• Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography and Museology
• Hazel D. Cole Fellowship in Jewish Studies, University of Washington ^[10]
• Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ^[11]

Publications

• "Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions", McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, ISBN  978-0-77354683-7
• "Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland", Indiana University Press, 2015, ISBN  978-0-253-01503-7
• 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

• Erica Lehrer publications on Academia.edu
• The Curating and Public Scholarship Lab
• Souvenir, Talisman, Toy exhibition website