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I think that it's safe to say that my published research has been rather diverse of late. Recent publications include a social history of southern Ukraine (known in the Imperial era as "New Russia". More recently my book on Dostoevsky's vision for an ethical world was published, and a book on Russian Mennonites that I have edited is due out in the fall of 2017. I have begun several new projects, including a major rethinking of the Mennonite experience in Russia and Ukraine.

I have broad expertise in Russian and Soviet history, most especially in the Social History of Southern Ukraine (New Russia); the great Russian writer Fedor Dostoevsky, and most recently on the history of Russian Mennonites, who lived in what is today Ukraine; a people who spoke German but were of primarily Dutch and Flemish origin.  See why the study of History is important!

• 2016 Meritorious Recognition at 51±¾É« for “outstanding or superior performance.”
• 2012 Meritorious Recognition at 51±¾É« for “outstanding or superior performance.”
• 2010 Nominated as Best Lecturer for TV Ontario’s Best University Lecturer Competition.
• 2007 Meritorious Recognition at 51±¾É« for “outstanding or superior performance.”
• 2006 Recipient of University Hoffman Little Award, given “in recognition of developing excellent rapport and inspiring students, positively contributing to 51±¾É«’s reputation, and having a history of distinguished service to 51±¾É« and the wider community.”
• 2006 51±¾É«’s local WUSC (World University Service of Canada) Committee was recognized as the top University chapter in Canada when I was its University Faculty Advisor.

I am willing to work with graduate students in areas that pertain to my areas of research and publication, but more broadly in Russian history as appropriate. Please contact me.

• Mennonites in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union:  Through Much Tribulation.  Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022.

• Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered, 1789-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018.

• Transcendent Love: Dostoevsky and the Search for a Global Ethic. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.

• Rural Revolutions. Peasants, Nobles, and Estate Owners in Southern Ukraine, 1775-1905. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), 2008.