Dr. Bohdan S. Kordan, Director (2007-2009)
Professor in the Department of Political Studies served as founding Director of the PCUH (1998-2004). Dr. Kordan has been with St. Thomas More College at the University of Saskatchewan since 1993. Prior to coming to St. Thomas More, he held research and teaching positions at the University of Alberta (1982-85) and Grant MacEwan College (1988-93). He was also invited to the University of Toronto (Erindale College) in 1991 as a Visiting Research Professor. His current research interests include the politics of state/minority relations with specific reference to Ukrainian Canadians and Canadian multiculturalism policy. Widely published, his most recent books include the PCERII research sponsored project Ukrainian Canadians and the Canada Census, 1981-1996 (Saskatoon: Heritage Press, 2000); Canada and the Ukrainian Question, 1939-45: A Study in Statecraft (Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001); Enemy Aliens, Prisoners of War: Internment in Canada during the Great War (Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002); and A Bare and Impolitic Right: Internment and Ukrainian-Canadian Redress (Montreal-Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004).
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Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen
An Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Religious Studies and Anthropology, came to St. Thomas More College in 2001. Dr. Khanenko-Friesen earned her Ph.D. in Anthropology and Ukrainian folklore from the University of Alberta (2001). She has previously taught at the University of Toronto (visiting professor in Slavic Studies, 1999-2000) and Harvard University (lecturer, Harvard Summer School, 1994-2001), where she also coordinated the Harvard Summer School Ukrainian Language Program (1998-2000) and directed Harvard Ukrainian Summer Institute (2001). At the University of Saskatchewan, she has established in 2002 and now coordinates the Summer Session in Ukraine. Her current research interests include transnational and diasporic constructions of identities and communities; memoir writing, narrative and oral history, post-Soviet ethnological discourse in Ukraine, and post-Soviet Ukrainian identity and culture. Her articles, book chapters and reviews appeared in Anthropology of Eastern Europe Review, Canadian Folklore, Ethnologies, Journal of Ukrainian Studies, Rodovid (Journal of Ukrainian Ethnology), Slavic and East European Journal, Spaces of Identity, Canadian American Slavic Studies and various book collections.
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