PCUH announces appointment of new director

Prairie Centre for the study of Ukrainian Heritage (PCUH) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen as its next director.  
Dr. Khanenko-Friesen is a professor of anthropology, a cultural ethnographer and oral historian, with an expertise in post-socialist transition, diaspora studies, migration and community engagement. Her research agenda focuses on Ukrainian Canadian culture, Ukraine and its new post socialist diasporas.
Natalia recently returned from her sabbatical year, most of which she spent abroad, including a term at Harvard University. She continued working on her two current projects, oral history of decollectivization in Ukraine and transatlantic letter exchanges between Ukrainians in the diaspora and homeland.
Natalia has been a long-term member of PCUH, served as its director previously, and managed the Centre’s research program “Personal Sources Archives.” 
A founding editor of Canada’s internationally recognized Engaged Scholar Journal, with the mission to promote community-university collaborative scholarship, she also continues to oversee the Journal’s operations to date. She says that these two areas, community engaged scholarship and the Ukrainian Studies in Canada, overlap meaningfully and continue to inform her work.