Canadian Studies Faculty

The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, a long-standing leader in Canadian Studies, has had a US Department of Education national Resource Center on Canada since 1987. Today, 62 faculty and researchers representing 24 departments across 11 professional schools, as well as all three UW campuses, contribute to knowledge and expertise on Canada, its relationship to the US and its role in global affairs.

Faculty by School/Department
Faculty Research (Alphabetical Order)

FACULTY BY SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT

2011–12 Canada-US Visiting Fulbright Chair
Claudio Aporta, Visiting Research Fellow, Associate Professor for the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

UW SEATTLE
College Of Arts And Sciences
American Ethnic Studies
Tetsuden Kashima, Professor (1989)
Gail Nomura, Associate Professor (2005)

American Indian Studies
Charlotte Coté, Associate Professor (2001)
Alexandra Harmon, Associate Professor (1997)
Daniel Hart, Professor/Chair, Canadian Studies (2000)
Dian Million, Assistant Professor (2001)
Mary C. Wright, Senior Lecturer (2002)

Anthropology
Benjamin Fitzhugh, Associate Professor (2000)

Art
Christopher Ozubko, Professor/Director (1983)

Art History
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Visiting Lecturer; Assistant Director, Bill Holm Center for the Study           of Northwest Coast Art (2009)
Robin K. Wright, Professor (1987)

Communication
Natalie Debray, Lecturer (2008)
Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Associate Professor (1992)
Philip N. Howard, Associate Professor (2003)

Economics
Neil Bruce, Professor (1995)
Shelly Lundberg, Retired Castor Professor (1987)

French and Italian Studies
Denyse Delcourt, Associate Professor (1992)

Geography
William Beyers, Professor (1990)
Kim England, Professor (1999)
James W. Harrington, Professor (1999)

History
John Findlay, Professor (1989)
Richard R. Johnson, Professor (1988)
Linda Nash, Associate Professor (2000)

Jackson School of International Studies
Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian Studies (1999)
Frederick Michael Lorenz, Senior Lecturer (2008)

Linguistics
Sharon Louise Hargus, Professor (1990)
Julia Herschensohn, Professor/Chair (1988)

Women Studies
Shirley Yee, Associate Professor (1990)

College Of Built Environments
Urban Design and Planning
Daniel Abramson, Associate Professor (2001)
Branden Born, Assistant Professor (2004)
Manish Chalana, Assistant Professor (2005)
Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor (1982)
Dennis M. Ryan, Associate Professor Emeritus (1999)
Fritz Wagner, Research Professor (2007)

Michael G. Foster School of Business
Debra Glassman, Senior Lecturer (1998)

College of Education
Educational Psychology
Brinda Jegatheesan, Assistant Professor (2008)

College of Engineering
Chemical Engineering
G. Graham Allan, Professor (1989)

Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anne Goodchild, Assistant Professor (2007)
Mark Hallenbeck, Director, Washington State Transportation Center (2007)

College of the Environment

Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Vincent F. Gallucci, Professor (1994)
Ray Hilborn, Professor (1989)
James R. Karr, Professor Emeritus (1993)

Environment & Forest Sciences

Ivan Eastin, Professor/Director, Center for International Trade in Forest Products (1994)
Thomas Hinckley, Professor Emeritus (2003)
Dorothy Paun, Associate Professor (2001)

Marine Affairs

David Fluharty, Associate Professor (1989)
Vladimir Kaczynski, Associate Professor (2005)

Oceanography
Peter Rhines, Professor (2004)

Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs

Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Studies

Greg Shelton, Instructor/Managing Director (2003)

Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
C. Leigh Anderson, Professor (2002)

School of Public Health
Aaron Katz, Principal Lecturer (1995)
Jack Thompson, Principal Lecturer (2005)

School of Social Work
Stan de Mello, Lecturer/Practicum Coordinator (1998)
Morna McEachern, Lecturer (2010)

UW BOTHELL
Education
Cherry A. McGee Banks, Professor (2002)

UW TACOMA
Education
Marcy Stein, Professor (2007)

History & American Studies
Michael Allen, Professor (2008)

Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Katie Baird, Associate Professor (2007)

Social Work
Charles Emlet, Professor (2009)
Janice Laakso, Associate Professor (2004)

Libraries
Sion Romaine, Canadian Studies Development Librarian and Projection Librarian (2006)

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FACULTY RESEARCH (ALPHABETICAL ORDER)

DANIEL ABRAMSON, PhD Tsinghua University (1998), Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; Canada-US comparative studies in urban identity, conservation and design, housing and community development, urban studies in emerging/resurgent market economies and transnational communities

G. GRAHAM ALLAN, PhD University of Glasgow (1955), Professor, Forest Resources and Chemical Engineering; creativity and innovation, fiber and polymer science, forest management in the Pacific Northwest including Canada

MICHAEL ALLEN, PhD University of Washington (1985), Professor, History and American Studies, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma; North American frontiers, Pacific Northwest history in Canada and the US, Western Canadian rodeos, cowboys and cowgirls, folk and country music in Canada

C. LEIGH ANDERSON, PhD University of Washington (1989), Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs; international development, trade and the environment in Canada and the US, cultural policy

KATIE BAIRD, PhD University of Massachusetts (2003), Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma; public sector economics, economics of education, comparative approach (Canada-US) to public economics and educational policy

KATHRYN BUNN-MARCUSE, PhD University of Washington (2007), Assistant Director, Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum; Visiting Lecturer, Division of Art History, University of Washington; research on indigenous Northwest Coast Art, currently focusing on body adornment.

CHERRY A. MCGEE BANKS, PhD Seattle University (1991), Professor, Education, University of Washington, Bothell; citizenship education in Canada and the US, national responses to diversity and maintenance of national cohesion, multicultural education, curriculum studies and instruction, social studies

WILLIAM BEYERS, PhD University of Washington (1967), Professor, Geography; early settlement history in North America, Pacific Northwest history

BRANDEN BORN, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003), Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; planning process and social justice in societal decision-making, land use planning and regionalism, urban food systems in North America

NEIL BRUCE, PhD University of Chicago (1975), Professor, Business and Economics; public finance, public sector economies

MANISH CHALANA, PhD University of Colorado (2005), Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; Urban history, digital design, historic preservation and planning, cultural resource management, vernacular cultural landscapes, South Asian immigration in North American and urban parks

CHARLOTTE COTÉ, PhD University of California, Berkeley (2002), Associate Professor, American Indian Studies; Native American law, politics, governance and sovereignty issues, Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth whaling traditions, Canada and the U.S Indian education policy, First Nation, Inuit and Métis filmmakers in Canada, Native North American women and gender issues

STAN DE MELLO, MSW, MPA Dalhousie University (1981), Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator, Social Work; cross-cultural practices, Canada’s First Nations communities and development

NATALIE DEBRAY, PhD University of Washington (2007), Lecturer, Communications; Media, memory, cultural identity, Québec

DENYSE DELCOURT, PhD University of Montreal (1987), Associate Professor, French and Italian Studies; Québecois literature, literature of French middle ages, French women and French Renaissance literature

IVAN EASTIN, PhD University of Washington (1992), Professor, Forest Management and Engineering, Forestry and Director, Center for International Trade in Forest Products; forest products marketing

CHARLES A. EMLET, PhD Case Western Reserve University (1998), Professor of Social Work (Tacoma), HIV/AIDS in older adults in North America; HIV stigma, disclosure and service delivery; psychosocial elements of living with HIV disease in the United States and Canada

KIM ENGLAND, PhD Ohio State University (1988), Professor, Geography; urban social geographies, feminist geographies, labor markets

NADINE FABBI, MA Carleton University, Ottawa (1992), Associate Director, Canadian Studies Center; Inuit governance in Canada, history of the North, contemporary issues in the Arctic

KATHLEEN FEARN-BANKS, MS University of California, Los Angeles (1965), Associate Professor, Communications; crisis communications, public relations, Canadian media

JOHN FINDLAY, PhD University of California, Berkeley (1982), Professor, History and Director, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest; western North America

BENJAMIN FITZHUGH, PhD University of Michigan (1996), Associate Professor, Anthropology and Director, Kodiak Archeological Field School; Arctic history, complex hunter-gatherers in North America, cultural change, spatial analyses of settlement systems

DAVID FLUHARTY, PhD University of Michigan (1977) Associate Professor, Marine Affairs; coastal environmental management

VINCENT F. GALLUCCI, PhD North Carolina State University (1971), Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; conservation of marine resources around the world, shark population dynamics and demography, international and world fisheries management, biostatistics; population dynamics, mathematical modeling, ecological implications for shark abundance and distribution in Puget Sound and Canada

DEBRA GLASSMAN, PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison (1980), Senior Lecturer, Michael G. Foster School of Business; international business and finance

ANNE GOODCHILD, PhD University of California, Berkeley (2005), Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; freight transportation and logistics, aviation logistics, freight transportation and air quality, freight terminal operations

MARK HALLENBECK, Director, Washington State Transportation Center, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering; the efficient and secure movement of people and freight across the Canada-US border, design and operation of transportation systems within major urban environments

SHARON LOUISE HARGUS, PhD University of California, Los Angeles (1985), Professor, Linguistics; phonology, indigenous languages including Witsuwit'en from British Columbia

ALEXANDRA HARMON, PhD University of Washington (1995), Associate Professor, American Indian Studies; history, law, and questions of ethnic identity and economic culture affecting indigenous North Americans and their descendants

JAMES W. HARRINGTON, PhD University of Washington (1982), Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at University of Washington, Tacoma; Professor, Geography; regional incidence and effects of Canadian investment in US border regions, motivations of trade policy, international economic interaction

DANIEL HART, MFA Temple University (1984), Professor and Chair, American Indian Studies, Chair, Canadian Studies, and Co-Director, Native Voices; indigenous media

ANNETTE HENRY, PhD Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (1992) Professor, Education, University of Washington, Tacoma; multicultural education, gender, race, language and culture in education, qualitative research methodologies

JULIA HERSCHENSOHN, PhD University of Washington (1976), Professor and Chair, Linguistics; syntax, second-language acquisition

RAY HILBORN, PhD University of British Columbia (1974), Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; fisheries population dynamics and management and natural resource conservation, fishery resources of the west coast of the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia

THOMAS HINCKLEY, PhD University of Washington (1971), Professor Emeritus and Interim Director, Forest Resources; ecology and physiology of forest ecosystems

PHILIP N. HOWARD, PhD Northwestern University (2002), Associate Professor, Communications; political communication and the role of new media in social movements and deliberative democracy, work in new economy and e-commerce firms, application of new media technologies in addressing social inequalities in the developing world

BRINDA JEGATHEESAN, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005), Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, College of Education; sociolinguistics, multilingualism and children with autism, ethnomedical beliefs, bioethics and early intervention, disability, culture and religion, cultural psychology of child-animal bond, ethnography and case study research methods; international comparative research

RICHARD R. JOHNSON, PhD University of California, Berkeley (1972), Professor, History; early North American history and comparative colonial history that encompass Canadian history, history of the American Revolution

VLADIMIR KACZYNSKI, PhD University of Gdansk (1973), Associate Professor, Marine Affairs; human dimensions of the marine environmental change, developing and transition economies, Russian and East European ocean affairs, international strategic planning of marine resources

JAMES R. KARR, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1970), Professor Emeritus, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; ecology and environmental studies, tropical forest ecology, ornithology, stream ecology, watershed management, landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological health, ecological risk, environmental policy

TETSUDEN KASHIMA, PhD University of California, San Diego (1975), Professor, American Ethnic Studies; Asian American and Canadian history, incarceration and internment of Japanese North Americans, Japanese North American attitudes and beliefs

AARON KATZ, CPH University of Toronto (1975), Principal Lecturer, Public Health, and Director, Health Policy Analysis Program; health policy, leadership, international health, market change, rural health

JANICE LAAKSO, PhD University of Texas, Austin (1999), Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Washington, Tacoma; social Policy in the US focused on families and historical approaches to social welfare, cultural diversity and social justice

FREDERICK MICHAEL LORENZ, LLM National Law Center, George Washington University (1982) Senior Lecturer, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Canada-US comparative studies focusing on military and peacekeeping policy, Canada’s role in the International Criminal Court and the Ottawa Landmine Convention

SHELLY LUNDBERG, PhD Northwestern University (1981), Retired Castor Professor, Economics; labor economics, family economics

MORNA MCEACHERN, PhD, University of Washington (2010), Lecturer, Instructor School of Social Work, Program Director, Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium. Research foci: comparative Canada/US social welfare policy teen pregnancy, indigenous and migrant issues, education

DIAN MILLION, PhD University of Washington (1999), Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies; native family and social issues in US and Canada, native education in US and Canada, American Indian and Canadian indigenous literatures, interdisciplinary research and teaching, narrative theories

ANNE VERNEZ MOUDON, DSc University of Laussanne (1987), Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built environments; urban and neighborhood design and urban form analysis

LINDA NASH, PhD University of Washington (1999), Associate Professor, History; North American environmental history, history of the North American west, twentieth-century US culture

GAIL NOMURA, PhD University of Hawai`i, Manoa (1978), Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies; Asian American and Pacific Islander American history, ethnic studies, women’s history, race and ethnicity, Asian Canadian history, intersections and divergences in the experiences of Asians in Canada and the United States

CHRISTOPHER OZUBKO, MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art (1981), Professor and Director, Art; typography and design history

DOROTHY PAUN, PhD University of Oregon (1993), Associate Professor, Environment & Forest Sciences; finance, accounting, marketing, and management from a forest products perspective; financial statement analysis and performance review of the Canadian and US paper industry

PETER RHINES, PhD Cambridge University (1971), Professor, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences; climate change and physics of deep convection in the Labrador Sea and Davis Strait, Canada, theory of the general circulation of the ocean and its waves and eddies, atmospheric and climate dynamics (particularly in the subpolar oceans), sea-going projects in high-latitude climate change, laboratory

SIÔN ROMAINE, MAS, MLIS University of British Columbia (2002), Canadian Studies Development Librarian and Project Librarian, Library Serials Services Division; collections and services related to Canadian Studies, library acquisitions and technical services

DENNIS M. RYAN, PhD University of Pennsylvania (1975), Associate Professor Emeritus, Urban Design and Planning and Director, Undergraduate Community and Environmental Planning, College of Built Environments; community-building, ethics and identity, service-learning in planning, urban place identity and interpretation, applied urban design and planning

GREG SHELTON, MMA University of Washington (1997), Instructor and Managing Director, Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies; international trade, US-Canada cross-border trade and transportation issues

MARCY STEIN, PhD University of Washington (1988), Professor, Education, University of Washington, Tacoma; special education and the education of students at risk for academic failure with an emphasis on diverse students including aboriginal and Native American students

JACK THOMPSON, MSW University of Washington (1976), Principal Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Director, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; public health practice, policy, organizational development and management, comparative health care delivery in Canada and the US, oversight of liaison activities with state and tribal partners and partner institutions in the six northwestern states and with tribal partners

FRITZ WAGNER, PhD University of Washington (1974), Research Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; land use/legal aspects of urban planning to health policy across urban and rural communities in developed and developing countries with a particular focus on comparative urban planning in Canada, the US and Mexico

MARY C. WRIGHT, PhD Rutgers University (1996), Senior Lecturer, American Indian Studies and History; native women’s history and Native American culture in North America

ROBIN K. WRIGHT, PhD University of Washington (1985), Professor, Art History and Curator, Burke Museum; Native American art and Northwest Coast Indian art

SHIRLEY YEE, PhD Ohio State University (1987), Associate Professor, Women Studies; migration of African Americans to Canada, US history, specializing in the 19th century women’s history and African American history, Chinese and Irish women’s migration history

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