Erica Lehrer is an assistant professor in the History Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she is also Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography & Museology. Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. U. Michig
...MoreErica Lehrer is an assistant professor in the History Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she is also Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography & Museology. Trained as an anthropologist (Ph.D. U. Michigan 2005) with a certificate in museum studies (Michigan 2005), she is completing a book manuscript titled Remaking Memory: How Jews and Poles are Salvaging Jewish Heritage in Poland (and reconceiving national belonging along the way), based on ethnographic fieldwork in Poland, Israel, and the United States. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright, IREX, and Mellon foundations, among others. Her core interests deal with cultural practices and products that attempt to apprehend, represent, or come to terms with mass violence and its aftermath – from the stories told in theoretical and creative texts to films, monuments, exhibitions and the "happenings" of everyday life. She is engaged in a number of related public projects of cultural interpretation, exhibition, translation, dialogue, and exchange.
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