Royden Loewen is the Chair in Mennonite Studies and Professor of History. In that capacity he is also editor of the Journal of Mennonite Studies and director of the Mennonite History Graduate Fellowship Program. He is also series editor of the “Ethnicity and Culture History Series” at University of Manitoba Press. His research interests include: North American immigration history; North American rural history; Canadian ethnic history; 19th and 20th century history of Mennonites in the Americas. Loewen has been involved in several research projects where he visits Mennonite farm villages around the world. These projects revolve around environmental and migratory history of the villages in Mexico, Siberia, Bolivia, Kansas and Manitoba.