Genocide Studies

 

Concordia University Awarded Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography & Museology (formerly History of Genocide)

 

Concordia University has been awarded a new Tier-2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography & Museology (formerly History of Genocide), for Dr. Erica Lehrer, in the department of History. Tier-2 chairs are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead their field.

Erica Lehrer’s research addresses the far-flung social consequences of mass violence, using new empirical, culturally-attentive and comparative methodologies. Lehrer focuses on the meaning of past suffering to its victims, perpetrators, and bystanders; how such meaning is attached to material things and landscapes; the work it does to define and foster group boundaries, identification and affiliation; and how it influences future relations and actions.

Michael Di Grappa, Acting President of Concordia University, expressed his pleasure at the announcement saying, “Concordia is known for its strengths in this field of research and is home to the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS). This new Chair is another confirmation of the university’s role and commitment to shedding light on the human tragedy of genocide.”

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