Monographs, edited volumes, special issues
Lehrer, Erica and SJ Kerr-Lapsley (eds.) Beyond Museum Walls: Museums and the Academy in Tension and Dialogue. Jagiellonian / Columbia University Press (Exhibiting Theory series), Forthcoming, 2024.
Lehrer, Erica, Roma Sendyka, and Magdalena Waligórska (eds.) “Awkward Objects, Curiosa and Varia: Exploring the Boundaries of the Holocaust Archive”. Special issue of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Forthcoming, 2024.
Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions. Edited volume with Shelley Butler. McGill-Queens Press, 2016.
Jewish Space in Contemporary Poland. Edited volume with Michael Meng. Indiana University Press, 2015.
Jewish Poland Revisited: Heritage Tourism in Unquiet Places. Indiana University Press (“New Anthropologies of Europe” series), 2013. (Finalist, National Jewish Book Award; Honorable Mention, Association of Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award).
Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places. (Eds.) Erica Lehrer, Cynthia Milton, and Monica Patterson. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Exhibition catalogs
Terribly Close: Polish Vernacular Artists Face the Holocaust. With Roma Sendyka, Wojciech Wilczyk, Magdalena Zych. Warsaw: Kritika Polityczna, 2024. (e-book)
Widok zza bliska. Inne obrazy Zagłady. With Roma Sendyka, Wojciech Wilczyk, Magdalena
Zych. Warsaw: Kritika Polityczna, 2023.
My Museum, a Museum about Me: Curatorial Dreams for the Kraków Ethnographic Museum. With Roma Sendyka. Kraków: Jagiellonian / Columbia University Press (Exhibiting Theory series), 2023.
Różnicowanie narodowego “my”: kuratorskie marzenia. With Roma Sendyka. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, 2019.
Lucky Jews / Na Szczęscie To Żyd. Exhibition Catalog (249 pgs). Ha!art
Press, Kraków, 2014.
Recent academic articles and chapters
“Unpacking Righteousness: Material Legacies of Aid to Jews in Nazi-Occupied Poland.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies (special issue on “Awkward Objects, Curiosa and Varia: Exploring the Boundaries of the Holocaust Archive”). Forthcoming, 2024.
“Materialny krewny: wspólnoty uwikłania w postkolonialnych, postholokaustowych polskich zbiorach etnograficznych”. [Polish translation of “Material Kin: ‘Communities of implication’ in post-colonial, post-Holocaust Polish ethnographic collections”]. Prace Kulturoznawcze, Vol. 27, No. 4 (“Peasant Genealogies”, ed. Jan Wasiewicz), Forthcoming, 2024.
“Curatorial Activism: Museums, Memory, Change.” Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism. (Eds.) Yifat Gutman, Kerry Whigham, and Jenny Wüstenberg. London: Routledge. 2023. 369-375.
“Decolonial Museology in East-Central Europe: A Preliminary To-Do List.” EuropeNow (Columbia University), with Joanna Wawrzyniak, 2023.
“Materiality and Holocaust Memory: Activating and Theorizing Poland’s Unquiet Places.” Jewish Quarterly Review. Forum on the state of the field of Eastern European Jewish studies. Vol. 112, No. 2 (Spring 2022): 239–244.
“Jewish Figurines and Holocaust Memory: A Meaning-Making Circuit in (and beyond) the Polish People’s Republic.” Diskursbuch Sprachlosigkeit (ed. by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden), Leipzig: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2021.
“Material Kin: ‘Communities of implication’ in post-colonial, post-Holocaust Polish ethnographic collections.” In (Eds.) Jonas Tinius and Margareta von Oswald, Across Anthropology: Convergences through Museums, Colonial Legacies, and the Curatorial. (Leuven University Press), 2020: pp. 283-316.
“Making space for Jewish culture in Polish ‘folk’ and ‘ethnographic’ museums: Curating social diversity after ethnic cleansing.” (with Monika Murzyn-Kupisz). Museum Worlds: Advances in Research, special issue honoring Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 2019, pp. 82-108.
“Arts of Witness or Awkward Objects? Vernacular art as a source base for ‘bystander’ Holocaust memory in Poland” (with Roma Sendyka). Special issue of Holocaust Studies: Disputed Holocaust Memory in Poland. (Eds.) Larry Ray and Sławomir Kapralski.” Vol. 25, Issue 3, 2019, pp. 300-328.
“Can there be a Conciliatory Heritage?” International Journal of Heritage Studies. Vol. 16 (4-5), July-September, 2010: 269-288. (Reprinted in S. Watson, A. Barnes, and K. Bunning (eds.) A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies. Routledge: London and New York, 2018).
Museum and Exhibition Reviews
“Making #Heritage Great Again.” Political Critique (politicalcritique.org). November 27, 2017.
“Curating Polish Folk.” Political Critique (politicalcritique.org). November 18, 2016.
“Thinking Through the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.” American Quarterly. Volume 67, Number 4. December 2015. Pgs. 1195-1216.
“Carno-Bialy Sprawiedliwy” (“Black and White Righteous”).“The Righteous honoured in Krakow. Motives, attitudes, message.” Krytyka Polityczna. February 11, 2014.
Translations
Difficult Questions in Polish-Jewish Dialogue: How Poles and Jews See Each Other: A Dialogue on Key Issues in Polish-Jewish Relations. (Eds) Kozłowski, Maciej, Andrzej Folwarczny, Michał. Bilewicz, Forum Dialogu Między Narodami, and American Jewish Committee. Warszawa: Jacek Santorski & Co Agencja Wydawnicza, 2006. (Translated from Polish to English).
