Author of the 24th American School of Prehistoric Bulletin, Ehrich had a nearly lifelong association with the ASPR. In 1927, he was an undergraduate at Harvard University, and a participant in one of the ASPR’s earliest field schools under George Grant MacCurdy. The site that he would devote decades to was identified in the summer of 1929, when the ASPR supported soundings and site selection for an area in Czechia. The site they decided to excavate was called Homolka, and, in collaboration with Vladimir F. Fewkes, Ehrich and others excavated the site in 1931 and 1932. In 1933, back at Harvard, the pair organized and cataloged artifacts, but lost access to the collection shortly thereafter. It was not until 1946, after the death of Fewkes, that Ehrich was able to resume his study of the collection. 1961-62 saw him back in the field for more excavations, and a thorough monologue on the findings of these decades of research at Homolka was published by the ASPR in 1968.
Robert Ehrich