Royden Loewen (born 26 October 1954 in Steinbach, Manitoba, Canada) is a retired Canadian History Professor and Chair in Mennonite Studies at the University of Winnipeg.

Loewen grew up in nearby Blumenort,[2] where he attended elementary school, before attending high school at Steinbach Christian High School, and college at Mennonite Brethren Bible College where he earned his university degrees and a Fulbright scholarship at the University of Chicago.

Loewen visited Mennonite settlements in Bolivia several times for a book on anti-modernity in Canada and Latin America.

He was involved in the two-year project Seven Points on Earth, funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, where he visited seven Mennonite farm villages around the world with graduate students from around the world, exploring the environmental history of villages in Java, Siberia, Friesland, Bulawayo, Santa Cruz departmento (Bolivia), Kansas and Manitoba.

He retired in 2020, and was replaced by Dr. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen as the new Chair in Mennonite Studies.