Research Area(s)
- Nationalism, Conflict, State Minority Relations
- Canadian Foreign Policy
- Historical Cartography of Eastern Europe
- Contemporary Ukraine
Education
- PhD, Arizona State University
- MA, Carleton University
- BA (Hon.) University of Toronto
Research Projects
- Status of Enemy Aliens in Canada during WWI
- Canada-Ukraine Foreign Relations
- Historical Cartography
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Opening Remarks for the Travelling exhibit “Doors: Through the Horrors of War,” Ukrainian Museum of Canada, March 23, 2023. Published in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 27, 2023. https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/bohdan-kordan-doors-reflect-horror-of-war-in-ukraine
- Bohdan Kordan (2022), “Russia’s war against Ukraine: historical narratives, geopolitics, and peace,” Canadian Slavonic Papers, 64:2-3, 162-172, DOI:10.1080/00085006.2022.2107835
- Opening Address, XXVII Triennial Congress of Ukrainian Canadians held in Winnipeg, October 28-30, 2022.
- Alex Johnston Memorial Lecture. “Enemies of Our Country: Internment in Canada’s Rocky Mountains National Park, 1915-1917,” Galt Museum and Archives, November 18, 2022. Sponsored by the University of Lethbridge (Faculty of Arts and Sciences) and the Lethbridge Historical Society.
- Opening Remarks for the Travelling exhibit “Doors: Through the Horrors of War,” Ukrainian Museum of Canada, March 23, 2023. Published in Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, March 27, 2023. https://thestarphoenix.com/opinion/columnists/bohdan-kordan-doors-reflect-horror-of-war-in-ukraine
- Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020) [co-author M. Dowie]
- "Internment in Canada during the Great War: Rights, Responsibilities and Diplomacy" in Internment during the First World War: A Mass Global Phenomenon (Routledge, 2019). [Stefan Manz, et. al., eds]
- Strategic Friends: Canada-Ukraine Relations from Independence to the Euromaidan (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018)
- No Free Man: Canada, the Great War, and the Enemy Alien Experience (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016)
- "Maidan and the Politics of Change: Meaning, Significance, and Other Questions," East\West: Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 2016
- "They Will Be Dangerous" in Canadian State Trials, v. 4, (University of Toronto Press, 2015) [Barry Wright, et. al., eds.]
- Money, Sovereignty and Power: The Paper Currency of Revolutionary Ukraine, 1917-1920 (Heritage Press, 2013)
- "Assessing the Multiculturalism/Immigration Policy Nexus in Saskatchewan," in New Directions in Saskatchewan Public Policy, (CPRC Press, 2012) [D. McGrane ed]
- "Wish You Were Here," Queen's Quarterly, Vol. 117. No. 4 (Winter, 2010), 544-553
- "Memory and Meaning in the Lion City," Nashwaak Review, Vol. 24/25, No. 1 (Summer/Fall 2010), 129-137 Timothy Andrew (pseud.)
- 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)
Podcasts
- ‘Civically Speaking.’ CFCR radio and podcasts with Lenore Swystun and co-host Christina Cherneskey.
- February 21, 2023: https://www.buzzsprout.com/252451/12295017-civically-speaking-one-year-later-russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-the-geopolitical-implications-a-discussion-with-dr-bohdan-kordan
- January 17, 2023: https://www.buzzsprout.com/252451/12057796-2023-01-17-civically-speaking-an-interview-with-dr-bohdan-kordan
- November 22, 2022: https://www.buzzsprout.com/252451/11741315-2022-11-22-civically-speaking-a-conversation-with-dr-bohdan-kordan-about-russia-s-invasion-of-ukraine-geopolitical-implications
Teaching Responsibilities
- POLST 262.3 Introduction to Global Governance
- POLST 343.3 Ukraine: Processes and Problems of Nation and State Building
- POLST 370.3 War, Peace and the International Order
- POLST 372.3 War Peace and Political Reconciliation
- POLST 465.3 Nationalism and the International System
Administrative Responsibilities
- Library Committee
- Ukrainian Studies Minor Committee