[Bio c. 2011]
Monica Eileen Patterson is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence (CEREV) at Concordia University. She received her Ph.D. in Anthropology and History and is completing a certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. Monica is the author of numerous publications and co-editor of Anthrohistory: Unsettling Knowledge, Questioning Discipline (University of Michigan Press, 2011) and Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places (Palgrave, 2011). In 2009, Monica curated “Apartheid and Resistance: An Exhibit in Honor of Archbishop Desmond Tutu” for his visit to the University of Michigan. She has worked as a consultant for the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids, Michigan, and is particularly interested in the intersections of memory, childhood, and violence in postcolonial Africa..
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