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Welcome New Affiliates!
Each year several UW faculty join the Canadian Studies Program as Affiliates contributing to the breadth and strength of the Program. Our new members are some of the most innovative scholars at the University who are dedicated to internationalizing the curriculum and research via the inclusion of comparative Canadian content. Please join us in welcoming the following new Affiliates to the Program.
New Affiliates – 2008-09
New Affiliates – 2007-08
New Affiliates – 2006-07
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Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse
Visiting Lecturer, Art History
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse is a visiting lecturer in the Art History Division at the University of Washington. Her courses include Native art of the United States and Canada; Polynesian Art and Culture; Native Art of the Northwest Coast; and Indigenous Body Adornment. Her dissertation research focused on Northwest Coast jewelry from the 19th century to the present including work by indigenous artists from British Columbia and Alaska. She is also the Managing Editor for Publications at the Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coat Art at the Burke Museum. She is editing a volume on contemporary Northwest Coast indigenous art and a DVD entitled The Kwakiutl of British Columbia, a Documentary by Franz Boas.
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Charles Emlet
Associate Professor, Social Work, UW Tacoma
Charles Emlet is Associate Professor of Social Work on the Tacoma Campus and affiliate faculty with the UW Center for AIDS Research. His research and scholarly writing has focused on the needs and service delivery issues of older adults at-risk for and living with HIV disease. Most recently, his research has focused primarily on the impact of HIV stigma on older adults including problems with disclosure and the psychosocial detriments to HIV Stigma. Emlet has written about HIV among older adults in the United States and Canada including papers for the journal Ageing International. Most recently, Emlet was invited to contributed an article on HIV stigma among older adults to the bilingual Canadian publication Vital Aging Bulletin published by the CRESES du CSSS Cavendish. In 2008, Dr. Emlet was selected as the keynote speaker for the annual meeting at Casey House in Toronto, one of the first AIDS hospices in the world. One of his planned research projects involved working with a Canadian colleague at the University of Toronto to pilot a study profiling issues for older adults living with HIV/AIDS in Ontario, Canada.
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Brian Coffey
Professor/Director, Urban Design and Planning, UW Tacoma
Brian Coffey is a Professor and Director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Washington Tacoma where he also serves as Director of International Programs. He teaches courses in planning, urban imagery, and urban social issues. He has led field courses in The Netherlands and regularly leads student field trips to Vancouver. He is currently developing a field course on the Canadian city. His current research interests relate to community development, municipal governance, and issues confronting people experiencing homelessness. Earlier research has focused on settlement landscapes in Upper Canada, especially as related to cultural relationships in vernacular architecture.
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Erica Cline
Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences, UW Tacoma
Erica Cline is an assistant professor in the Environmental Sciences program in Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. Her research is concerned with forest ecology and environmental implications of forestry practices. Her research focuses upon mycorrhizal fungi symbiotically associated with Douglas-fir trees, an important timber species throughout the Pacific Northwest and western Canada. She is currently developing a forest ecology field course that will allow students to perform field research in sites in Alberta, Canada, and will be first taught in Fall 2010.
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Carol J. Leppa
Professor, Nursing, UW Bothell
Carol J. Leppa is a Professor in the Nursing Program at the Bothell Campus. Her scholarship focus is in health care ethics and policy with a particular interest in end of life care in hospice and palliative care. She developed and led a US-UK study-abroad course in health care systems and ethics, taking her eighth group of students to London, England in March-09. This course included some content on the Canadian health care system in the past, but Professor Leppa is re-designing the course to be a fully three-way comparison on end of life policy and practice: US-Canada-UK. The goal is to develop Canadian study opportunities for UW students, as well as ongoing web-linkages with Canadian universities.
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Brinda Jegatheesan
Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, College of Education
Brinda Jegatheesan is an Assistant Professor in Educational Psychology, College of Education. Her research focuses on the lives of young immigrant and indigenous children with autism in bilingual and multilingual families. She is interested in the process of socialization at home and in the community through the use of multiple languages in everyday talk. Her recent work has focused on South Asian Islamic immigrant children with autism and their socialization through multiple languages. Her research also includes the analyses of discourse in medical and allied health contexts involving children with neurological and developmental disabilities and their families. Within this area, her focus is on ethnomedical beliefs/practices, the biomedical paradigm, and their implications for allied health and early intervention services. Brinda's other research focuses in the cultural psychology of the child-pet bond, particularly the role companion animals play in shaping the socio-emotional and moral development (empathy, nurturance) in young children at risk and with special needs. She is committed to comparative research (US - Canada with Asia, and the Middle East). She uses ethnography, particularly visual ethnography in her research and focuses on the micro-level analysis of discourse.
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Michael Allen
Professor, History, UW - Tacoma
Michael Allen was born and raised in Ellensburg, Washington. After serving with the US Marines in Vietnam, he earned his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees, respectively, from Central Washington State College, University of Montana, and University of Washington, Seattle. His Canadian-content courses include “North American Frontiers†and “Pacific Northwest History.†In addition, he is a faculty editor for Pacific Northwest Quarterly. His research and publications focus on western Canadian rodeo, rodeo cowboys and cowgirls, and the folk and country rock music of Ian and Sylvia, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Neil Young, Blue Rodeo, and others. He has written five books, including Congress and the West, 1783-1787 (New York: Edwin Mellen, 2005); Frontiers of Western History: Origins, Evolution, and Future of Western History, ed., with Mary L. Hanneman (Needham, Massachusetts: Simon and Schuster, 1997 and 2004); and Rodeo Cowboys in the North American Imagination (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998). Michael Allen lives in Tacoma and has three children, Jim, Davy, and Caroline.
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Frederick (Rick) Lorenz
Senior Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies
Frederick (Rick) Lorenz grew up in New York City and obtained his undergraduate and law degrees from Marquette University. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 27 years as a judge advocate, including a tour as an infantry company commander. He was the senior legal advisor for the United Nations and authorized military intervention in Somalia in 1992 returning there as senior legal advisor for the U.N. evacuation in 1995. In 1996 he served in Bosnia as a legal advisor for the NATO implementation force, and went on to teach Political Science at the National Defense University. After his retirement as a colonel in 1998 he served as a United Nations legal affairs officer in Kosovo, working in the U.N. Civil Administration. He was a regular lecturer at the Canadian Peacekeeping Centre and has served with Canadian military and civilian peacekeepers on three continents. As a Senior Lecturer at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington, his current courses include International Humanitarian Law and International Law and the Use of Force that include CanadaÂ’s role in the International Criminal Court and the Ottawa Landmine Convention. He resides with his wife Joan in Tacoma, Washington.
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Katie Baird
Associate Professor, Economics, UW - Tacoma
Katie Baird is an Associate Professor of Economics at UW Tacoma. She specializes in public finance and public policy, and is currently researching cross-national differences in educational outcomes among socio-economically disadvantaged youth – a study that includes youth outcomes in both Québec and Ontario. Her classes on public policy include a comparative examination of education, fiscal, and welfare policies in the US and Canada.
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Natalie Debray
Lecturer, Communication
Natalie Debray earned her doctorate in Communication in June 2007. With an emphasis on International Communication, her research examines media, collective memory, and national identity, particularly in the context of the France-Québec relationship. Natalie will be teaching two courses next year as part of the UW's evening degree program. COM 478A: Intercultural Communication will be offered in the Winter and COM 451: Mass Media and Culture will be offered in the Spring.
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Anne Goodchild
Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anne Goodchild is an Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research interests lie in understanding and improving the goods movement system. Her ongoing work at the border between Whatcom County and the Lower Mainland of British Columbia looks at the causes of and solutions to very long delays, and their impacts on regional supply chains. She is also engaged in work to understand the impact of the Port of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, on North American and Pacific Northwest trade. She was born and raised in London, Ontario, Canada.
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Mark Hallenbeck
Director, Washington State Transportation Center, College of Engineering
Mark Hallenbeck is the Director of the Washington State Transportation Center, College of Engineering. His research explores the use of performance statistics for making more informed land use decisions, better transportation management decisions, and more cost-effective regulatory and enforcement actions. Much of his research involves collaboration with Canadian colleagues. Mark’s courses include an examination of the technologies and procedures used for moving freight across the Canadian-US border.
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Sion Romaine
Canadian Studies Librarian
Sion Romaine is the University’s new Canadian Studies librarian and Assistant Head of Serials Acquisitions. Previously, he worked for the University of British Columbia Library and the Vancouver Public Library, and served on the executive board of the Archives Association of British Canadian Studies Consortium. Sion would like to assure his American colleagues that the rumor he moved south of the 49th parallel with the sole purpose of making the US the 11th province has been greatly exaggerated!
Marcy Stein
Professor, Education, UW Tacoma
Professor Marcy Stein is one of the founding faculty members of the Education Program at the UW Tacoma campus. Her areas of expertise include the education of students at risk of academic failure and students with high incidence disabilities. She hopes to apply her previous work with Native American students to the education of Aboriginal students in Canada and the US.
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Fritz Wagner
Professor and Chair, Landscape Architecture
Fritz Wagner is the Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture. He long has been active in taking students to Québec City and Montréal. His most recent book featured two chapters on Québec City and mid size cities in Canada. In 2004 he was awarded a Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education Grant, U.S. Department of Education, to take students to Canada to study comparative urban planning models. The first course took place this last June in Québec City and Montréal.
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