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]

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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]

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