Monica Patterson will become CEREV’s first postdoctoral fellow in the fall of 2009 after completing her University of Michigan doctorate in Anthropology and History, with additional certificates in Teaching and Museum Studies. Her dissertation Contested Childhoods in Late-Apartheid South Africa: 1976-1990 examines how adults integrate early experiences of violence into their understandings of themselves, their pasts and the transition to democracy.

Patterson is coeditor of Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge and the Question of Discipline (forthcoming). She has authored articles in Encyclopedia of South Africa (forthcoming), (2005), Responsibility in Crisis: Knowledge Politics and Global Publics (2004), and Journal of the International Institute (2003, 2002, 2001).

Her teaching and research interests include colonial and postcolonial southern Africa, anthropology and history, childhood, violence, memory and public scholarship.
 
Sima Aprahamian is an instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia. Her research interests include feminist perspectives on the aftermath of trauma and violence with a focus on Armenia. Aprahamian helped develop and now co-teaches two courses at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute: “Women and Genocide” and “Feminist Perspectives on Genocide”.
Karin Doerr teaches German culture, language and literature as well as women's and genocide studies at Concordia, where she is an associate of the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies and the Simone de Beauvoir Institute. Her main focus is the impact of the Third Reich on language use. She has conducted interviews with Holocaust survivors and translated and edited their writings. Doerr has written and presented on literary responses to the Shoah, on antisemitism in German literature and on integrating the Holocaust into Germany’s university curriculum. She has collaborated with genocide specialist Kurt Jonassohn and co-authored Nazi Deutsch / Nazi-German: An English Lexicon of The Language of the Third Reich with American historian Robert Michel.
Steven High is Canada Research Chair in Public History
at Concordia, codirector of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and principal investigator of a $1.2 million Community-University Research Alliance project entitled “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Other Human Rights Violations.” High teaches a course in which students examine practical and ethical dilemmas faced in oral history research. He also teaches the course “Memory and the Built Environment.” In addition to supervising a number of graduate students who specialize in public and oral history he will co-teach a Université de Montréal seminar during the coming academic year, focusing on life stories of war and genocide.
Martha Langford is an associate professor of Art History at Concordia. She was founding director and chief curator at the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa from 1985 to 1994. Major works include Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001); Image & Imagination (MQUP, 2005); and Scissors, Paper, Stone: Expressions of Memory in Contemporary Photographic Art (MQUP, 2007). Through research, teaching and graduate supervision, Langford joins interdisciplinary conversations about modes of consciousness materialized and sometimes provoked by photographic images, including representations of violence and sociopolitical taboos. Currently she is using amateur and popular photographies to consider personal and collective memories of the Cold War from a Canadian perspective.
Loren Lerner is Professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at Concordia. She has curated exhibitions including Memories and Testimonies/Memoires et Témoignages (Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, April 2002, traveling exhibition) and Afterimage, an exploration of art works by Canadian women born near or after the end of World War II (Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre). Lerner's publications include the edited volume Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Littérature/Rémanences: Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les arts et littérature canadiens contemporains (Montreal: Concordia Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002), and journal articles including "Sam Borenstein, Artist and Dealer:The Polemics of Post-Holocaust Jewish Cultural Identity" (Canadian Jewish Studies/Etudes Juives Canadiennes 12, 2004) and "The Aron Museum at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal" (Material Culture Review/Revue de la Culture Matérielle 64, Fall 2004). Her recent course offerings include “Hate, Violence and Genocide in North American Art and Theory” and “Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin from World War II to the Present”.
Cynthia E. Milton is an assistant professor and Canada Research Chair in Latin American History in the Department of History at the Université de Montréal. Her areas of research include history in the Andes with emphasis on perceptions of poverty in colonial Quito and historical representations of violence in contemporary Peru. Milton is the author of The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in 18th Century Ecuador (2007) and a coeditor of The Art of Truth-telling about Authoritarian Rule (2005). Her recent articles include “Public spaces for the discussion of past violence: the case of Peru” (Antipoda: Revista De Antropologia Y Arqueologia, 5 diciembre 2007) and “At the Edge of the Peruvian Truth Commission: alternative paths to recounting the past” (Radical History Review 98, Spring 2007).
Matthew Penney is an assistant professor in the History Department at Concordia. His research focus is popular culture in postwar Japan, particularly the ways in which various media have been used to represent Japan’s war experience. Penney has published a variety of articles including "‘War Fantasy’ and Reality: ‘War as Entertainment’ and Counter-narratives in Japanese Popular Culture" (Japanese Studies May 2007) and “Far from Oblivion: The Nanking Massacre in Japanese Historical Writing for Children and Young Adults” (Holocaust and Genocide Studies 22(1), Spring 2008). His research highlights the efforts of Japanese creators to use popular culture to promote antiwar ideas.
Elena Razlogova is a cultural historian who uses digital storytelling to encourage popular participation when interpreting and presenting the past. She codirects Concordia's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and directs the Digital History Lab. Projects at the lab use new media to share the tasks of historical research and interpretation with online audiences worldwide—scholars, students and the general public. Razlogova has collaborated on many web-based projects, most recently the online exhibit Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives and Vertov, a freeware media annotating plugin for the Firefox extension Zotero. Her research interests include the intersection of culture and political economy in modern American media history and the ethics of surveillance in the USA and Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Eric H. Reiter is Assistant Professor of Law and Society and Legal History in the History Department at Concordia. Among his research interests are conflict studies and the legal aspects of post-crisis reconstruction. Reiter teaches the course “Conflict and Its Resolution”. “Front-Line Justice” (Virginia Journal of International Law 46, 2006), an article he coauthored with Louise Otis, explores the role of mediation and other alternative dispute resolution techniques when rebuilding justice systems.
Stacey Zembrzycki is an adjunct assistant professor in the History Department at Concordia. Her doctoral dissertation Memory, Identity and the Challenge of Community Among Ukrainians in the Sudbury Region, 1901-1939 examines how Catholic and Orthodox nationalists and progressives of Ukrainian origin formed a distinctive community in the vicinity of Sudbury, Ontario during the first four decades of the 20th Century. With Steven High she co-teaches Concordia’s first Open University course—“Oral History Workshop”. Zembrzycki's current research project “Spatialized Memories of Postwar Immigrant Montrealers” is a cross-cultural and intergenerational oral history examining how men, women and children who immigrated to Montreal during the postwar period constructed identity and recreated community in their new urban setting.