People
Faculty
Dr. Oleksandr Pankieiev, Director of the Kule Folklore Centre, Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography & Academic Curator of the BMUFA
Dr. Natalia Khanenko-Friesen, Huculak Chair in Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography
Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky, Huculak Chair Emeritus
Dr. Natalie Kononenko, Kule Chair Emerita
Board of Directors 2024-2025
Dr. Robert Wood, Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta - Chair
Dr. Oleksandr Pankieiev, Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography - Director of the Kule Folklore Centre
Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky - Founding Director, Kule Folklore Centre
Dr. Natalia Khanenko Friesen, Huculak Chair - Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Representative
Dr. Victoria Ruetalo, Professor, MLCS - Chair, Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS)
Dr. Jelena Pogosjan, Professor, MLCS - Faculty Representative, MLCS
Jason Golinowski, President, Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre - Friends of the Ukrainian Folklore Centre Representative
Dr. Mark Minenko, C.D., LL.B., PhD. - Community Representative
Dr. Andie Palmer, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology - Past Interim Director, Kule Folklore Centre
Staff
Lynnien Pawluk, Kule Folklore Centre Coordinator
Natalia Yesypenko, Archivist Assistant/Researcher
Dmytro Yesypenko, SUCH Program coordinator
Sia Chernyavska, Archives and Library Assistant
Eric Fincham, Archival Assistant
Jonathan Grossman, Archival Assistant
Communications Team
Olesya Sanzhara, Social Media and Design
Illia Pokotylo, Website and Multimedia Management
Alumni
Maryna Chernyavska, Past Archivist
Affiliated Staff
Dr. Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn, Past Interim Director of the Kule Folklore Centre (2024-2025), and the Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography (2023-2025)
Dr. Andie Palmer, Past Interim Director of the Kule Folklore Centre (2023-2024)
Dr. Jelena Pogosjan, Past Director of the Kule Folklore Centre (2016-2022)
Friends Society - Board of Directors
Jason Golinowski — President
Andrea Kopylech — Vice-President
Michael Kornylo — Treasurer
Maryna Chernyavska — Secretary
Natalia Toroshenko
Lydia Migus
Greg Nakonechny
Garrett Gregoraschuk
Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn
Oleksandr Pankieiev — ex officio