Natalie Kononenko was professor and Kule chair in Ukrainian Ethnography at the University of Alberta. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Canada, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Turkey and was part of the Sanctuary Project, the most thorough documentation of Ukrainian sacralculture in Canada. Her book Ukrainian Ritual on the Prairies: Growing a Ukrainian-Canadian Identity published by McGill/Queens University Press in 2023 won the Canadian Association of Slavists Best Book Prize and the Canadian Historical Association Clio Award. Kononenko’s other publications include Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing (Routledge 1997), Slavic Folklore: A Handbook (Greenwood 2007), and Ukrainian Epic and Historical Song: Folklore in Context (University of Toronto Press 2019). She has also produced book chapters and numerous articles and served as editor of Folklorica. Currently, Kononenko serves on the Folklore Commission of the International Congress of Slavists and studies the presentation of ethnographic data online.