Education:
B.A. Hons. (Wales)
M.A. (Alberta)
Ph.D. (Manitoba)

Courses (2011-2012):
GEOG-1103(3) Intro Human Geography II
GEOG-2407(3) Recreation Geography
GEOG-2408(3) Environmental Perception and Human Behaviour

Areas of Interest:
Historical Geography
Western Canada
Music and Geography
Symbolic Landscapes
Israel

Research Interests:
Ukrainian settlement in western Canada.
Ukrainian settlements in South America.
Communal settlements in Canada and Israel.
Provincial parks in Manitoba.

Selected Publications:
Lehr, J.C. and McGregor, B.“ Using Schools to Map the Frontier of Settlement on the Canadian Prairies,” Great Plains Research, 18 (2008): 53-66

Lehr, J.C., Everitt,J. and Evans,S. “The Making of the Prairie Landscape.” Prairie Forum 33(1:2008): 1-38.

Church, M., and Lehr, J.C.“The Portrayal of the Prairies in Canadian Children’s Literature,” Prairie Forum 32 (1: 2007): 111-122

Lehr, J.C., Bartlett, J.and Tabvahtah, J. “The distant beat of my father’s drums: Contemporary Aboriginal music and NCI-FM broadcasting, Manitoba, Canada,” GeoJournal 65 (2006): 79-90.

Cipko, S.and Lehr, J.C.“Ukrainian settlement in Paraguay,” Prairie Perspectives, 9 (1: 2006): 31-46.

Cipko, S. and Lehr, J.C.“Volyn’ u novomu sviti: ukrainski poselennia v parahvayi,” Ukrainoznarstvo 3 (2006): 289-293. [In Ukrainian ]

Lehr, J.C., McGregor, B. and Hiebert, W. "Mapping Hutterite Colony Diffusion in North America", Manitoba History, 53 (October 2006) 29-31

Lehr, J.C. and Aponiuk, N. “Zberezhennya ukrainc’koyii identynoti v manitobi (kanada) ictorychni perspektyvy,” Ukrainskyi vimir 5 (2006): 71-73. [In Ukrainian]

Katz, Y. and Lehr, J.C. By Their Faith Shall they Live: The Hutterite Colonies in North America 1874-2006, (Yad Tabenkin: The Research and Documentation Center of the Kibbutz Movement, 2006) [In Hebrew]

Lehr, J.C., Tabvahtah, J. and Bartlett,J. “Identity and Environment in Contemporary Inuit Music,” Prairie Perspectives: Geographical Essays, Vol. 7 (2004): 11-20.

Lehr, J.C.“Shattered Fragments: Community Formation on the Ukrainian Frontier of Settlement, Stuartburn, Manitoba, 1896- 1921,” Prairie Forum 28 (2: 2003):219-234

Lehr, J.C.“Ethnicity, Space and Place in Canada’s Cultural Archipelago: The Construction of Identity,” in Klaus Martens (ed.)., The Canadian Alternative (Königshausen and Neumann GmbH, Würzburg, 2003), pp. 23-36.

Katz, Y. and Lehr J.C. 1999 The Last Best West: Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian Prairies Jerusalem: The Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, 241 p.

Stadel, C. and Lehr, J.C. 1996 "Gruppensiedlung der Mennoniten und Ukrainer in der kanadischen Prairie" Geographische Rundschau 48, Vol.4, pp247-255.

Lehr, J.C. and Picknicki Morski, J. 1999 "Global Patterns and Family Matters: Life History and the Ukrainian Pioneer Diaspora" Journal of Historical Geography 25, Vol. 3, pp 349-366.

Katz, Y. and Lehr, J.C. 1995 "Symbolism and Landscape: The Etzion Bloc in the Judean Mountains" Middle Eastern Studies 31 Vol. 4, pp.730-743.

Lehr, J.C. and Katz, Y. 1995 "Crown Corporation and Church: The Role of Institutions in the Stability of the Pioneer Settlements in the Canadian West, 1870-1914" Journal of Historical Geography 21, Vol. 4, pp. 413-429.

Lehr, J.C. 1983 " Texas (When I Die): National Identity and Images of Place in Canadian Country Music Broadcasts" Canadian Geographer 27, Vol. 4, pp. 361-370.