Promoting Ukraine as an academic subject, supporting faculty who have internationally recognized scholarly activity, advancing research that focuses on Ukrainian-Canadian issues—the responsibilities of the Peter and Doris Kule Chair in Ukrainian Community and International Development are many and varied.
The position, more commonly referred to as the Kule Chair, was established in 2004 through the generous $1,000,000 gift to MacEwan University from Drs. Peter and Doris Kule. The first Kule chair, Dr. Roman Petryshyn, was also the founding director of the Ukrainian Resource Development Centre.