Rachel Perry received her doctorate in Art History at Harvard University and teaches visual culture in the Weiss-Livnat Holocaust Studies program at the University of Haifa and at Gratz College. Her research focuses on the representation and memory of the Holocaust and the Second World War in the visual arts of the immediate postwar period and of visual ethics, exhibition design, and cultural diplomacy. She is the recipient of a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship at CASVA at the National Gallery, the Fondation pour la la Mémoire de la Shoah and a Senior Research Fellowship at the Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research. Her articles have appeared in many peer-reviewed journals including October, History and Memory, Holocaust Studies: a Journal of Culture and History, French Cultural Studies, RIHA, Art Bulletin and Ars Judaica, Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
In 2017, she curated Arrivals, Departures: Salvaged Art Works by Persecuted Jewish Artists in Paris at the Hecht Museum. She has published widely on topics such as: Yizkor Books, Found Footage, Color Reproduction, Postcards and Travelling Memory, Curating Holocaust Art, Emotions and/in Holocaust Studies, Reenactment, Performance and Participatory Practices, Graphic Narratives and Visual Testimony. She recently edited a special issue of The Journal of Holocaust Research on early Holocaust exhibitions in the immediate postwar period. Her current project, Who Will Draw Our History? which focuses on early postwar graphic narratives, is funded by EHRI and the Hadassah Brandeis Institute.