Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen

Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography

Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen serves as the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the Kule Folklore Centre. She is a professor in the Department of Modern Languages and serves as the Director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies in the Faculty of Arts.  Dr. Khanenko-Friesen juggles many hats and is very involved in scholarly initiatives focusing on the war in Ukraine, ethnography, anthropology, Ukrainian Canadian studies, Contemporary Ukraine studies, and diaspora studies.