Dr. Sukumar Periwal was born in New Delhi, India and educated in the United States and Britain. After completing his doctorate in International Relations at the University of Oxford, Sukumar was a tutor and research fellow at the Central European University in Prague, focusing on nationalism and political change in the post-communist states. He then

Aboriginal Identities, Spiritual Borderlands, and Cultural Exchange Across the Canadian-American Pacific Northwest Dr. Neylan’s historical research project explored the British Columbia/Washington state border as a permeable zone of spiritual exchange among Salishan Aboriginal peoples. Dr. Neylan is interested in the Pacific Northwest borderlands, and how religious ideas, both old beliefs and new, were disseminated from

Napoléon Lajoie – Québec’s Greatest Baseball Player – and Canada-US Identity Claude Couture is Professor of Social Sciences and Canadian Studies at the Faculté Saint-Jean (French Campus) of the University of Alberta in Canada, and spent the 2004-2005 academic year as Fulbright Professor at the Center. He is the author of numerous books including, Pierre Elliott

Impact of Border on Indigenous Peoples in Canada and the US Lyana Patrick, Canada-US Fulbright Scholar, recently completed her MA in Indigenous Governance at the University of Victoria and for the next seven months will participate in graduate classes in documentary filmmaking through the UW Native Voices Program. Patrick is working on a documentary film

Migration, Borders and Ethics in Canada and the US Yasmeen Abu-Laban is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Her research interests center on the Canadian and comparative dimensions of gender and ethnic politics, nationalism and globalization, diversity and public policy, and citizenship theory. She is the co-author