David Scheffel
David Z. Scheffel was a professor of anthropology at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada.{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mnZkAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j34NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4219,2792073&dq=david-scheffel&hl=en|title=Sect finds freedom in wilderness|date=26 December 1981|work=Calgary Herald|page=G23|accessdate=2 May 2011}}
Biography
Born in former Czechoslovakia in {{birth based on age as of date|64|2019|6|21|noage=1}}, he emigrated in August 1968 after the Soviet invasion with his parents and sister to Austria. Scheffel earned degrees in Canada in anthropology, culminating in his doctorate from McMaster University in 1988. His main areas of interest in the last couple of decades is ethnology studies of the Romani people in Europe. Scheffel is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including In the Shadow of Antichrist (Broadview Press, 1991), a work on the Russian Orthodox breakaway Old Believers sect in Alberta.
Scheffel's efforts to help impoverished Roma rebuild their community in the Slovakian village of Svinia is the subject of a 1998 documentary film, The Gypsies of Svinia.{{cite web|url=http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=33616|title=The Gypsies of Svinia|work=Collection|publisher=National Film Board of Canada|accessdate=20 February 2014|archive-date=3 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210403083027/http://onf-nfb.gc.ca/en/our-collection/?idfilm=33616|url-status=dead}} He is also the author of the 2005 study Svinia in Black and White: Slovak Roma and their Neighbours (University of Toronto Press).
In June 2019, a Slovakian court in Prešov found Scheffel guilty of sexual abuse and illegal weapon possession and sentenced him to seven years in prison.{{cite web | title=B.C. university professor gets seven-year sentence in Slovakia | website=The Vancouver Sun | date=2019-06-21 | url=https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/b-c-university-professor-gets-seven-year-sentence-in-slovakia | access-date=2023-09-13}}{{cite web | title=A Canadian professor accused of sexual abuse gets 7 years in Slovak prison | website=The Slovak Spectator | date=2019-06-19 | url=https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22148979/canadian-professor-david-scheffel-accused-of-sexual-abuse-gets-7-years-in-slovak-prison.html | access-date=2023-09-14}}
Books
- {{cite book | last=Scheffel | first=David Z. | title=Svinia in Black and White: Slovak Roma and their Neighbours | publisher=University of Toronto Press | date=2005-04-01 | isbn=978-1-4426-0683-8}}
- {{cite conference | title = Assessment of Marginality and Integration Among Disadvantaged Groups conference held at the Faculty of Philosophy | location = Prešov University | date = September 25–27, 2003 | chapter = Roma Marginality/Romska Marginalita}}{{cite web | first=Andrea | last = Chalupová | title=Roma marginality and integration discussed at conference | website=The Slovak Spectator | date=2003-10-20 | url=https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20020673/roma-marginality-and-integration-discussed-at-conference.html | access-date=2023-09-14}}
- {{cite book | last=Scheffel | first=David | title=In the Shadow of Antichrist: The Old Believers of Alberta | publisher=Broadview Press | publication-place=Peterborough, Ont. | isbn=978-0-921149-73-6 | date = 1991}}
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