Erica Lehrer

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Erica Lehrer, 2019

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. [1] [2]

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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]

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