Dr. Bohdan Medwidsky
Bohdan Medwidsky has long been the primary force behind the development of the Ukrainian Folklore Program. A graduate of the University of Ottawa with a BA degree in 1963 and an MA in 1966, he received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 1977. He held teaching positions at the University of Toronto and Carleton University before arriving at the University of Alberta. In 1971 he assumed the post of Assistant Professor with the Department of Slavic and East European Studies, and has held the rank of full professor since 1991. He has published or contributed to eleven books, has published many articles, reviews and delivered over two dozen papers at conferences and symposia around the world. He was the key organizer of the Ukrainian folklore endowments at the University of Alberta, and is Chair of the Ukrainian Folklore Committee.

Dr. Medwidsky's research specialties include Ukrainian oral literature, customary lore and the history of Ukrainian Ethnography.

Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky
Andriy Nahachewsky became an Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in 1990, occupying the Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1995.

Dr. Nahachewsky graduated cum laude with a BA in Ukrainian Studies from the University of Saskatchewan in 1979, then studied for one year at the Oleksandr Korniichuk Institute of Culture in Kyiv in 1980. He completed a BFA in Dance in 1982 from York University and his MA in Ukrainian Folklore from the U of A in 1985. He studied at the Centre for Dance Studies in the United Kingdom in 1988, and received his PhD in Ukrainian Folklore from the U of A in 1991. Nahachewsky has some 30 publications to his credit including contributions to Ethnographica, Athens; Studia Musicologica, Budapest; Rodovid, Kyiv; and Dance Research Journal, New York. He has been very active as a performer, teacher, critic and choreographer of Ukrainian dance.

Dr. Nahachewsky's research focuses on Ukrainian material culture, Ukrainian dance, and Canadian-Ukrainian ethnicity.

Dr. Alexander Makar
Alexander Makar works part time in the Ukrainian Folklore Archive as researcher/archivist. He is also employed part time by the Ukrainian Canadian Archive and Museum of Alberta.

Born in western Ukraine, Dr. Makar attained the rank of Candidate of Sciences (roughly quivalent to a North American Ph.D) in History. He continues his research interest in Ukrainians outside of Ukraine as well as the development of Ukrainian national culture.