Jenna R. Klassen

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Jenna R. Klassen
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Historian, curator.

Jenna Klassen is a Master’s student in the history program at the University of Manitoba, and the Assistant Curator at the Mennonite Heritage Village in Steinbach. She received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Winnipeg. Her research focuses on material culture and western Canadian immigration.

Her articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:

Review: Joan Sangster, The Iconic North: Cultural Constructions of Aboriginal Life in Postwar Canada
Manitoba History, Number 85, Fall 2017

“A sad hiatus in our national history”: Indigenous Representations in the Work of Nan Shipley, 1950s-1970s
Manitoba History, Number 88, Winter 2018

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