Alexander Freund is a professor of history at the University of Winnipeg, where he also holds the Chair in German-Canadian Studies. He co-founded the university's Oral History Centre and directed it in the past. He has research and published widely on oral history methodology and theory as well as histories of migrants and refugees in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He is currently working on books about the experiences of refugees in Winnipeg since 1945; the experiences of German immigrant fathers and their sons in twentieth-century Canada; and Oral History and Power, a collection of essays on oral history methodology and theory. He is also currently co-editing the Bloomsbury Oral History Handbook and will co-edit the fourth edition of the Oral History Reader. He has received two awards from the US Oral History Association for best articles in Oral History (1996 and 2016). Other publications include Being German Canadian:  History, Memory, Generations (2021); Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada (2015); The Canadian Oral History Reader (2015); Oral History and Ethnic History (2014); Beyond the Nation?: Immigrants' Local Lives in Transnational Cultures (2012); Oral History and Photography (2011); and Aufbrüche nach dem Zusammenbruch: Die deutsche Nordamerikaauswanderung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (2004).