Erica Lehrer

Erica Lehrer 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.

Education She has received a B.A. from Grinnell College and M.A. and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan. 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. Her mother, Liane Reif-Lehrer, was a Holocaust survivor and professor at Harvard Medical School. Her brother, Damon Lehrer, is a children's book author.

Awards Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies Illinois Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Publications "Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions", McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016, "Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland", Indiana University Press, 2015, Na szczęście to Żyd / Lucky Jews: Poland's Jewish Figurines, Ha!art Press, 2014, Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places, Indiana University Press, 2013, co-editor, Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011,