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Bohdan Kordan - On Leave January 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012

  • Professor
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8915
  • bkordan@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • PhD, Arizona State University
  • MA, Carleton University
  • BA (Hon.) University of Toronto

Research Interests

  • Nationalism, Conflict, State Minority Relations
  • Canadian Multiculturalism
  • Historical Cartography of Eastern Europe
  • Contemporary Ukraine

 

Research Projects

  • Status of Enemy Aliens in Canada during WWI
  • Multiculturalism on the Canadian Prairies
  • Canada-Ukraine Foreign Relations
  • 15th-18th Century Maps of Ukraine 

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • "Wish You Were Here," Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 117. No. 4 (Winter, 2010), 544-553
  • Timothy Andrew (pseud.) "Memory and Meaning in the Lion City," Nashwaak Review, Vol. 24/25, No. 1 (Summer/Fall 2010), 129-137
  • The Mapping of Ukraine: European Cartography and Maps of Early Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian Museum of New York, 2008)
  • "The Predicament of Belonging:  The Status of Enemy Aliens in Canada, 1914" Journal of Canadian Studies, 39 1 (Winter 2005): 74-89.  [with James Farney]
  • A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (McGill-Queens University Press, 2004) [with C. Mahovsky]
  • Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada During the Great War (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002)
  • Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-1945: A Study in Statecraft (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001)
  • Black Sea, Golden Steppes: Antiquarian Maps of the Black Sea Coast and the Steppes of Old Ukraine (Heritage Press, 2001) 

 

Teaching Responsibilities

  • POLST 342.3 Russia and the Former Soviet Union: Politics of Change
  • POLST 343.3 Politics of Change, Society in Transition: Post-Soviet Ukraine
  • POLST 370.3 War, Peace and the International Order
  • POLST 371.3 International Conflict: The Cold War
  • POLST 372.3 International Conflict: Beyond the Cold War
  • POLST 464.6 Seminar in International Relations
  • POLST 465.3 Nationalism and the International System
  • POLST 466.3 Ethnic Conflict and Democracy

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Chair, Dept of Political Studies
  In every casual conversation, with every student, there may be a chance to throw in an illuminating word, to sow an inspirational thought.”
— Fr. Henry Carr, CSB
STM President, 1942 - 1949