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Shelisa Klassen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Regina, specializing in Canadian history with a focus on Prairie history, Indigenous-settler relations, and migration. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, where her dissertation examined the role of newspapers in settler colonial mythmaking. Her research analyzes the connections between immigration, ethnic identity, and settler colonialism, particularly through the lens of late-nineteenth-century newspapers and promotional materials related to immigration. Klassen utilizes case studies from Manitoba in the 1870s to investigate how settler colonial systems and institutions developed and impacted local communities. She is currently working on a project that explores the experience of Mennonites within the context of settler colonialism in Canada, which is set to be published in April 2026.
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