Folklore Alumni
We are proud of our graduates and their accomplishments. You can see the Ukrainian Folklore Program alumni and the topic of their research listed by the graduation year below.
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2023
Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn, PhD, "Maydanyk's Memories: A Juxtaposition of Time and Space"
Victoria Kostyniuk, MA
2021
Katya Chomitzky, MA, "Connected by a Thread: Ukrainian Embroidery and Macro-Cultural Identity on COVID-19 Face Masks in Ukraine and Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada"
2019
Ashley Halko-Addley, MA, "Waxing Away Illness: A Study of the Ukrainian Wax Ceremony in Western Canada"
2018
Nadya Foty-Oneschuk, PhD, "Saving Heritage: Stakeholders, Successes, and Project SUCH"
2017
Jennifer Boivin, PhD, "Animation and National Ethos: the American Dream, Socialist Realism, and Russian émigrés in France"
2016
Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn, MA, "Stitched Narratives: The Ukrainian Canadian Embroidered Pillow"
Jiaying You, PhD, "Creative Factors and Ethnic-folk Dance: A Case Study of the Peacock Dance in China (1949-2013)"
Nataliya Bezborodova, MA, "Maidan on Facebook: Sensitive, Expressive and Interpretative Protest Lore"
Kateryna Kod, MA, "Ethnocultural Identity and Edmonton Painters Recently from Ukraine"
2014
Huseyin Oylupinar, PhD, "Remaking Terra Cossacorum: Kozak Revival and Kozak Collective Identity in Independent Ukraine"
2013
Paul Olijnyk, MA, "Hutsul Dance Steps"
Ludmila Nazarova, MA, "Folklore Elements of Personal Experience: The Art and Narrative of Mary Hansen"
Myroslava Uniat, MA, "Contemporary Ukrainian Political Folklore as Social Phenomena"
Maryna Chernyavska, MA, "Contemporary Ukrainian Home Birth Customs"
2012
Viktoria Shevchenko, MA, "Ukrainian Canadians: The Manifestation of Cultural Identity through Folk Ballads"
2011
Mariya Lesiv, PhD, "Modern Paganism Between East and West: Construction of an Alternative National Identity in Ukraine and the Ukrainian Diaspora"
2010
Jennifer Boivin, MA, "From the Community to the World: Ukrainian Dance in Montreal"
Svitlana Kukharenko, PhD, "Abnormal Death Memorials in Ukraine: The Folkloristic Perspective"
2009
Maureen Stefaniuk, MA, "My Grandmother's House as a Hybrid Between Traditional and Modern Dwellings"
2008
Vincent Rees, MA, "Bereznianka: A Transcarpathian Folk Dance"
2007
Greg Borowetz, MA, "Proverbs and aphorisms in 'Kaliendar Kanadiis'koho Farmera'"
2006
Svitlana Kukharenko, MA, "Magic in Contemporary Weddings: A Comparison of Ukrainian and Canadian-Ukrainian Beliefs and Practices"
Katherine Bily, MA, "Memories and Sentiments of the Plain Lake Church Community"
Roman Shiyan, PhD, "Cossack Motifs in Ukrainian Folk Legends"
2005
Mariya Lesiv, MA, "Pysanka: the Ukrainian Easter Egg in Canada"
Monica Jensen, PhD, "Personal Narratives and Ritual Observance"
Sogu Hong, PhD, "Ukrainian Canadian Weddings as Expressions of Ethnic Identity: Contemporary Edmonton Traditions"
2004
Vita Holoborodko, MA, "Custodians of Ukrainian Heritage: Three Ukrainian Museums in Edmonton"
2003
Nadya Foty, MA, "Ukrainian Mock Weddings in Saskatchewan"
2002
Anna Kuranicheva, MA, "Art and Ethnicity: The Expression of Ukrainian Identity Through Art Objects Displayed in the Home"
Andriy Chernevych, MA, "Malanka Through the Back Door: Ukrainian New Year's Eve celebration in East Central Alberta"
Phyllis Basaraba, MA, "Koliadky and Shchedrivky of Bukovyna: Ukrainian Winter Cycle Songs"
2001
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (nee Shostak), PhD, "Local Ukrainianness in Transnational Context: An Ethnographic Study of a Prairie Ethnic Community"
1999
Jason Golinowski, MA, "Gold, Silver, Bronze: Reflections on a Ukrainian Dance Competition"
Brian Cherwick, PhD, "Polkas on the Prairies: Ukrainian Music and the Construction of Identity"
1998
Sogu Hong, MA, "Mykola Kostomarov and Ukrainian Folklore"
1997
Viktoria Lohvyn, PhD, "Ukrainian Customary Law: An Attempt at Analyzing Some Aspects of Women's Rights"
Volodymyr Boychuk, MA, "Vivady: Wedding Songs of Ukrainians from Bosnia"
1996
Raina Iotova, MA, "A Study on Similarities and Differences Between Bulgarian and Ukrainian Everyday-life Folk Song Motifs (Lyrics)"
Olena Plokhii, MA, "Ukrainian Christmas in Canada: food, tradition, customs"
1994
Natalia Khanenko-Friesen (nee Shostak), MA, "Domestication of Space: Symbolic Aspects of the Traditional Peasant Home in Northern Boryspil' Region (The Beginning of the 20th Century)"
1992
Anne Mary Sochan, MA, "Continuity and Change: An Inter-Generational Examination of Ukrainian Christmas Observations in East Central Alberta"
Brian Cherwick, MA, "The Ukrainian Tsymbaly: Hammered Dulcimer Playing Among Ukrainians in Alberta"
1991
Andriy Nahachewsky, PhD, "The Kolomyika: Change and Diversity in Canadian Ukrainian Folk Dance"
1990
Rena Hanchuk, MA, "The Word and Wax: Folk Psychology and Ukrainians in Alberta"
1989
Valentyn Moroz, MA, "The Ukrainian Hurdy-Gurdy: Questions of its Traits and Origin"
1985
Andriy Nahachewsky, MA, "First Existence Folk Dance Forms Among Ukrainians in Smoky Lake, Alberta and Swan Plain, Saskatchewan"
Mark Bandera, MA, "The Tsymbaly Maker and His Craft: A Dynamic Musical Tradition in East Central Alberta"
1982
Demjan Hohol', MA, "Folkloric Elements in Anatol' Svydnyc'kyj's 'Ljuborac'ki'"
1981
Yarema Kowalchuk, MA, "The Emigrant Verses of Hryhorij Olijnyk: An Analysis"
1967
Wasyl Niniowsky, MA, "The Poetic Forms and Mythological Elements in the Ukrainian-Hutsulian Carols - Koliadky and Shchedrivky"
1963
George Foty, MA, "A Survey of the Mythology of Kievan Rus' and its Survivals in the Folklore of the Eastern Slavs"