Royden Loewen

Royden Loewen (2013)

Royden Loewen (born 26 October 1954 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian History Professor and Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg. His book about the Mennonite Communities 1850-1930 is a leading publication about the emigration waves from south Russia to Canada.[1]

Education and career

Royden Loewen was born in the town of Steinbach in southern Manitoba as the son of Dave and Gertie Loewen. Dave was a poultry producer and wheat farmer and for many years chairman of the Steinbach Credit Union. Gertie was a homemaker and mother to six children. Royden attended elementary school in nearby Blumenort, highschool at Steinbach Christian High School, and college at Mennonite Brethren Bible College where he earned his university degrees and fulbright at the University of Chicago. He taught Junior and High School at Fisher River First Nation in Manitoba's interlake district and Canadian history at the University of Manitoba. Since 1996 he holds the Chair in Mennonite Studies.

Loewen visited the Mennonite population in Bolivia several times for a book on anti-modernity in Canada and Latin America. He currently is involved in the two-year project Seven Points on Earth, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, where he visits seven Mennonite farm villages around the world with graduate students from around the world. The project paints an environmental history of the villages in Java, Siberia, Friesland, Bulawayo, Santa Cruz departmento (Bolivia), Kansas and Manitoba.

Royden Loewen lives in Steinbach with his wife Mary Ann, who teaches academic writing at the University of Winnipeg.

Bibliography

Academic reviews of Loewen's works

External links

References

  1. The Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship, University of Winnipeg
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