The Canadian Studies Center was just awarded almost $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education for a National Resource Center grant with the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University (WWU); and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant. This is for the 2022-26 grant cycle. These grants will support over a

In June, Kevin Turner (Brock University, Ontario) spent two weeks in Old Crow, Yukon collecting data on water and peat samples to understand climate change impacts in the region. Brock University recently shared an article about his field work in Old Crow, Yukon. https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2022/07/brock-geographer-makes-global-connections-during-fulbright-canada-residency/ Kevin shares more about his time at UW below: “The Fulbright

Samantha Farquhar, Canadian Studies Center Foreign Language and Area Studies alum (2018) and current PhD student at East Carolina University’s Integrated Coastal Sciences program, was awarded the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Enders Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship will allow Samantha to pursue her dissertation work on the relationship between industrial fishing

The Canadian Studies Center, housed at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has been selected to receive funding support from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program. The University of Washington is one of 44 colleges and universities across the United States

In late June, STUDY CANADA K-12 and Village Books, Bellingham, sponsored Métis author, Natasha Donovan who presented her graphic novel Borders. In Borders, this graphic-book adaptation of award-winning author Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian, The Truth About Stories, a young Blackfoot boy and his mother end up in a no-man’s land between the United States

Robyn Long was a FLAS Fellow for French in the 2021-22 academic year while completing her Master of Social Work. As part of the Social Work program, she completed a practicum with the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada office that involved supporting staff participating in the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group. Her primary project focused

In May 2022, the Center partnered with UW in the High School to provide professional development training for French teachers on Québec topics. UW in the High School includes almost 20 educators who teach UW French language courses to high school students across the state. This year the Center sponsored Sarah Hurlburt, professor of French

For the second year, the Corbett Exchange Program hosted a virtual cohort, composed of six UW students, three UBC students, and three UVic students. The 2021 program provided a strong model for success, and our students had an exceptional two quarters of workshops, discussions, video tours, and cross-border learning. Over the course of four months,

In May 2022, the Center co-sponsored a roundtable exploring English in the history of Cascadia as a language of trade, displacement and trauma, settler-colonialism, and reclamation and resistance. This roundtable of lightning talks pursued the local and regional history of English: the place of English in the bioregion of Cascadia, the Pacific Northwestern region of

Professor Rich Watts, Department of French and Italian Studies, signs off after five years of service to the Center and Jackson School of International Studies. — As my five-year term as faculty director of the Canadian Studies Center in UW’s Jackson School of International Studies draws to a close, my thoughts are mostly with those