2023
Dr. Aileen Friesen presented “The Mennonites in Revolutionary Ukraine,” Oct. 29-30.
Friesen is associate professor of history at the University of Winnipeg, where she teaches courses in Mennonite history, European history and the history of peace and nonviolence. She also serves as executive director of the D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, and is general editor of the Mennonite Transnational Studies series at the University of Toronto Press.
A recognized authority on the Russian Mennonite experience, Friesen has published widely. Recent books include Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe (University of Toronto Press, 2020) and The Russian Mennonite Story: The Heritage Cruise Lectures (Centre for Transnational Mennonites Studies, 2018), co-written with Paul Toews.