Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Office: 3A36 Ashdown Hall
Phone: 204-786-9391
Fax: 204-774-4134
E-mail: b.nobbs-thiessen@uwinnipeg.ca
Assistant Professor of History and Mennonite Studies
Chair in Mennonite Studies
Co-director of Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
Degrees
- B.A., University of British Columbia
- M.A., University of British Columbia
- Ph.D., Emory University
Biography (click for full bio)
Research Interests
- Mennonite history
- Latin American history
- Migration
- Environment
Courses
- HIST-2109(3): Mennonite Studies II
- HIST-3114(3): Latin American Mennonites
- HIST-3128(3): Indigenous-Mennonite Relations
Selected Publications
- Landscape of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia’s Tropical Frontier since 1952. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- “Re-Shaping the Chaco: Migrant Foodways, Place-Making and The Chaco War.” Journal of Latin American Studies 50:3 (2018): 579-611.
- “The Steel Wheel: From Progress to Protest and Back Again in Canada, Mexico and Bolivia.” Agricultural History 92:2 (2018): 172-189. (Co-authored with Royden Loewen.)
- “Cheese is Culture and Soy is Commodity: Environmental Change in a Bolivian Mennonite Colony.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 35 (2017): 303-328.
- “Channeling Modernity: Nature, Patriotic Engineering and the Chaco War.” In The Chaco War: Environment, Ethnicity, Nationalism, ed. Bridget Chesterton, 67-90. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
- “Mennonites in Unexpected Places: Sociologist and Settler in Latin America.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 28 (2010): 203-224.
Aileen
Friesen
Office: 2B16 Bryce
Phone: 204-786-9352
Fax: 204-774-4134
E-mail: ai.friesen@uwinnipeg.ca
Associate Professor of History and Mennonite Studies
Executive Director, Plett Foundation
Co-director of Centre for Transnational Mennonite Studies
Degrees
- B.A. (Hons.), University of Manitoba
- M.A., Carleton University
- M.A., University of Alberta
- Ph.D., University of Alberta
Biography (click for full bio)
Research Interests
- Mennonite history
- European history
- Migration
Courses
- HIST-2102(3) Mennonite Studies II
- HIST-2132(3) History of Peace & Nonviolence II
- HIST-3108(3) Gender and Mennonites
Selected Publications
- Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. University of Toronto Press, 2020.
- The Russian Mennonite Story: The Heritage Cruise Lectures, by Paul Toews with Aileen Friesen. Centre for Transnational Mennonites Studies, 2018.
- “Sowers of Hatred or Prosperity: Mennonites, Faith and Collective Agriculture in Western Siberia.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 34 (2017): 287-302.
- “An Expanding Christian Empire: Archpriest Ioann Vostorgov and Russian Orthodox Missionary Aspirations in Asia.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 57, nos. 1-2 (2015): 56-75.
- “Missionary Priests’ Reports from Siberia.” In Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia, ed. Heather Coleman, 289-305. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014.
- “The Case of a Siberian Sect: Mennonites and the Incomplete Transformation of Russia's Religious Structure.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 30 (2012): 137-56.
- “Assembling an Intervention: The Russian Government and the Mennonite Brethren Schism of the 1860s.” Journal of Mennonite Studies 26 (2008): 221-37.