History

Hans Werner

Dr. Hans WernerAssociate Professor
Executive Director,  D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation, Inc.


Office: 2B16 Bryce Hall
Phone: 204.786.9352
Fax: 204.774.4134
e-mail: h.werner@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees
B.Sc. (Engineering) University of Manitoba
B.A. (Honours) University of Winnipeg
Ph.D. University of Manitoba

Areas of Interest
Western Canada; Immigration and Migration

Courses

2504: Survey History of Canada: National

2505: Survey History of Canada: Modern

   Fall 2012, Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:30 to 9:45 am

2108: Mennonite Studies I

2109: Mennonite Studies II

  Winter 2013 Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00 to 2:15 pm 

2132 History of Peace and Nonviolence

  Winter 2013 Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00 to 11:15 am 


Selected Publications 

Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities (Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2007)

 

"Siberia in the Mennonite Imagination, 1880-1914: Land, Weather, Markets," Journal of Mennonite Studies 30 (2012): 157-170.

 

 "'German Only in Their Hearts:' Making and Breaking the Ethnic German Diaspora in the 20th Century," in Alexander Freund, ed.. Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012)

 

"More than Just Business: An Historical Overview of Jewish-Mennonite Relations in Winkler," in Dan Stone and Annalee Greenberg, eds, Jewish Life and Times: A Collection of Essays, Vol. IX, 2009: 29-35. .

 

"'One of our own': Ethnicity Politics and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Manitoba," Manitoba History 58 (June 2008): 2-10.

 

"'A mild form of deviancy': Premarital Sex among Early Manitoba Mennonites," Journal of Mennonite Studies 26 (2008): 143-159.