Colin Neufeldt

Education

PhD, 1999, History, University of Alberta
LLB, 1993, University of Alberta
MA, 1989, History, University of Alberta
BA, 1986, (Hons.), History, University of Winnipeg

BRS, 1985, Mennonite Brethren Bible College

For Education, Publications, and Past Employment see Colin Neufeldt – Curriculum Vitae.

Teaching Areas

Russia and the Soviet Union, Western and Eastern Europe, Totalitarianism and Genocide, and History at the Movies.

Research Interests

Mennonites in the Soviet Union and Poland, the Holocaust, and University Program Cyclical Reviews.

Selected Publications

Colin P. Neufeldt, The Public and Private Lives of Mennonite Kolkhoz Chairmen in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Raĭony in Ukraine (1928-1934). The Carl Beck Papers in Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, no.2305, (January 2015): 1-87. http://carlbeckpapers.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/cbp/article/viewFile/199/210

Colin P. Neufeldt, “Separating the Sheep from the Goats: The Role of Mennonites and Non-Mennonites in the Dekulakization of Khortitsa, Ukraine (1928-1930),” The Mennonite Quarterly Review, 83, no. 2 (April, 2009): 221-291.

Colin P. Neufeldt, “The ‘Zborni’ of Khortytsia, Ukraine: The Last Stop for Some Kulaks En Route to Stalin’s Special Settlements.” Journal of Ukrainian Studies, 35-36 (2011-12): 207-223.

Colin P. Neufeldt, “Reforging Mennonite Spetspereselentsy: The Experience of Mennonite Exiles at Siberian Special Settlements in the Omsk, Tomsk, Novosibirsk and Narym Regions (1930-33).” Journal of Mennonite Studies, 30 (2012): 269-314.  http://jms.uwinnipeg.ca/index.php/jms/article/view/1465/1453

Colin P. Neufeldt, “Collectivizing the Mutter Ansiedlungen: The Role of Mennonites in Organizing Kolkhozy in the Khortytsia and Molochansk German National Districts in Ukraine in the late 1920s and early 1930s.” In Minority Report: Mennonite Identities in Imperial Russia and Soviet Ukraine Reconsidered. Edited by Leonard Friesen (Toronto, ON; University of Toronto Press, 2018), 211-59.

Colin P. Neufeldt, “Mennonite Collaboration with Nazism: A Case Study of the Responses of Mennonites in Deutsch Wymyschle, Poland to the Plight of Local Jews during the Early Nazi Occupation Period (1939-1942).” In European Mennonites and the Holocaust. Edited by Mark Jantzen and John D. Tiesen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press in association with the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum, 2020), 172-201.

Colin P. Neufeldt, “Perspectives on the Mennonite Experience During the Holodomor (1932-33): Resources in North American Archives and Libraries,” УКРАЇНА МОДЕРНА; “Документування Голодомору 1932-33 в Україні: архівні колекції за межами Радянського Союзу,” 30 (2021):131-155.

Colin P. Neufeldt and Wojciech Marchlewski, “Divided Loyalties: The Political Radicalization of Wymyśle Niemieckie Mennonites in Interwar Poland (1918-1939),” Mennonite Quarterly Review, vol. XCVI, no. 4 (October 2022): 531-70.

Colin P. Neufeldt, Elizabeth Smythe, John Jayachandran and Oliver Frank. “Cyclical Program Reviews at Smaller Post-Secondary Institutions: Can the Time and Effort be Justified?” The Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 14, no. 2 (2023). Article 9.

https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/cjsotl_rcacea/article/view/14417/13066
Colin P. Neufeldt and Wojciech Marchlewski, “Escape to Freedom and Return to Bondage: A Case Study of the Evacuation of Mennonites from Deutsch Wymyschle and Gąbin, Poland in Early 1945.” The Polish Review, 69, no. 3 (2024), 27-51.

Additional Preferred Information

Orchid Link: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2719-3477 
Academia Link:  https://colinneufeldt.academia.edu/