Curriculum Vitae for Colin Neufeldt
Education
Doctor of Philosophy, University of Alberta (1999);
Bachelor of Laws, University of Alberta (1993);
Master of Arts, University of Alberta (1989);
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Winnipeg (1986);
Bachelor of Religious Studies, Mennonite Brethren College of Arts (1986);
Diploma of Theology, Columbia Bible Institute (1982);
Journeyman Plumber and Gasfitter (1982).
Employment
Concordia University of Edmonton (formerly “Concordia University
College of Alberta”)
Edmonton, Alberta
July 2006 - Present
Associate Professor - History
I have taught history courses at Concordia since 2006. I have served History Program
Coordinator since July, 2008.
History
Colin Neufeldt Law Office
July 2006 – Present
Edmonton, Alberta
I started my own law firm in 2006 and I currently practice in the areas of real estate,
corporate-commercial, wills and estates, and charity law.
Snyder & Company
Edmonton, Alberta
July 1993 –June 2006
Associate Lawyer
After articling at Snyder & Company, I worked as an associate lawyer, practicing in the
areas of corporate-commercial, real estate, litigation, wills & estates, and agricultural
law.
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
1986 - 1989
Teaching Assistant
1991 - 1993
While completing my post-secondary education at the University of Alberta, I worked as
a teaching and research assistant in the History Department.
Department of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs (FIGA)
Government of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Summer, 1989
Researcher
I prepared information papers for FIGA dealing with the development of trade
opportunities with Ukraine.
Pete Neufeldt’s Plumbing & Heating Ltd.
Coaldale, Alberta
Plumber & Gasfitter
1978 – 1986
I worked as a plumber and gasfitter in my father’s plumbing business.
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Publications
Articles
Neufeldt, Colin P. “Cleansing the Countryside: The Dekulakization of the Soviet
Mennonite Community (1928-1933).” Preservings 13 (December, 1998): 6-9.
------. “The Flight to Moscow, 1929: An Act of Mennonite Civil Disobedience?”
Preservings 19 (December 2001): 35-47.
------. "Mennonites in Russia and the USSR." In The Modern Encyclopaedia of Religions
in Russia and the Soviet Union edited by Paul D. Steeves. Gulf Breeze, FL:
Academic International Press, 1993. 5:168-80.
------. “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.
------. “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.
------. “Separating the Sheep from the Goats: The Role of Mennonites and NonMennonites in the Dekulakization of Khortitsa, Ukraine (1928-1930).” The Mennonite
Quarterly Review 83, no. 2 (April, 2009): 221-291.
------. “Shifting Paradigms: Soviet Archives and the Reinterpretation of Soviet Mennonite
History.” In Knowing and Interpreting Our Past: Alberta’s Mennonite History edited
by Judith D. Rempel, 45-57. Calgary: Mennonite Historical Society of Alberta, 2000.
------. “Through the Fires of Hell: The Dekulakization and Collectivization of the Soviet
Mennonite Community (1928-1933).” The Journal of Mennonite Studies 16 (1998):
9-32.
------. “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): 207223.
Book Reviews
Neufeldt, Colin. "Fifth Column? New Light on the Soviet Germans and Their Relationship
to the Third Reich." Journal of Ukrainian Studies 24 (1988): 65-81.
-------. “Review of The Constructed Mennonite by Hans Werner.” In Mennonite Historian,
(June 2013).
-------. “Review of It All Happened in Moscow; a Memoir of Discovery by Maureen S.
Klassen.” In Journal of Mennonite Studies, 32 (2014): 281-2.
-------. “Book Review of Path of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and
Nazi Rule by Harvey Dyck.” In Mennonite Quarterly Review, 89 (April 2015): 330-3.
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Theses/ Dissertations
Neufeldt, Colin P. "The Fate of Soviet Mennonites in Ukraine and the Crimea on the Eve
of the Second Revolution (1927-1929)." M.A. Thesis, University of Alberta, 1989.
-------. “The Fate of Mennonites in Ukraine and the Crimea During Soviet Collectivization
and the Famine (1930-1933).” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Alberta, 1999.
Other Works
Neufeldt, Colin P. “The Fate of Mennonites in Soviet Ukraine and the Crimea during the
Soviet Collectivization and the Famine (1928-1933).” 2 vols. Edmonton: By the
Author, 1989.
Neufeldt, Colin, Kevin Neufeldt and David Wiebe Neufeldt, eds.. The Neufelds and Borns
of Kubanka. Coaldale: By the Editors, 2006.
Neufeldt, Colin, ed. Unsere Familie: A Pictorial History of the Ratzlaff, Janzen, Pauls and
Schmidt Families. Edmonton: By the Editor, 2006.
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