Heather J. Coleman

Heather J. Coleman is Professor of History at the University of Alberta. She is an historian of Russia and Ukraine, with a special interest in the relationship between religion and social, political, and cultural modernization in late imperial and early Soviet Russia and Ukraine. She teaches a range of courses in Russian, modern European, and world history. From 2011-2020, she served as editor of Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue canadienne des slavistes. She is also the director of the Program on Religion and Culture at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Her first book, the relationship between religion and social, political, and cultural modernization in late imperial and early Soviet Russia and Ukraine (Indiana, 2005) received honorable mention for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association in 2006. She is also the co-editor, with Mark D. Steinberg, of Sacred Stories: Religion and Spirituality in Modern Russia (Indiana 2007), and editor of Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia: A Source Book on Lived Religion (Indiana, 2014).