When the Canada-U.S border closed indefinitely in 2020, the Corbett Exchange Program was—like so many other study abroad programs—forced to adjust. In other years, the goal of the program is to give students immersive, in-person cultural exchange experiences in Vancouver, Victoria and Seattle. As a result of the pandemic, the Canadian Studies Center developed an

Bridging the Longest Border: A History of Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University (2021), by Donald E. Alper, former director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies at WWU, was just released. The book tells the story about how a handful of visionaries built a program that would educate students and community leaders about Canada and

Benjamin is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at York University with a focus in international relations, Canadian politics and security studies. He is currently supervised by professor Gabrielle Slowey. Benjamin is researching the use and development of surveillance technologies in the Canadian Arctic within a critical security framework. Specifically, Benjamin is examining

Quinn Wyatt’s paper, “Increasing the Cultural Competence of Inuit Education” was one of five class papers selected for publication. As part of the Arctic Initiative in the Canadian Studies Center, senior research scientist Jason Young oversees the scholarship-to-policy initiative for the Arctic Studies minor. Quinn’s paper was one of just five selected from the fall

Treat Schubert was awarded a virtual internship to work with the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle for winter quarter 2021. He shares his experiences working with the Consulate: As an intern for the Consulate General of Canada in Seattle, I was fortunate enough to take my first step into the world of diplomacy even

Professor Richard Watts, faculty director of the Canadian Studies Center, has received the Simpson Center for the Humanities’ Society of Scholars Fellowship for academic year 2021-2022, which will allow him to complete his book manuscript titled Reclaimed Waters: Literary History, Translation, and Resource Decolonization in the Francophone Post/colonial World, which includes a chapter on Indigenous literary responses to

I often take walks in my neighbourhood, on the beach, on the coast overlooking Washington state. I unfortunately did not have the opportunity during my exchange to physically go to UW; got to be safe from COVID!  But the virtual format of this year’s Corbett Exchange allowed me to connect online with the other students

Over 40 educators representing 14 states, two provinces and the Yukon territory participated in a 5-part series on current issues in the Arctic. Each week members of our UW Arctic studies community and other colleagues presented on a major theme in Arctic studies. These included “Inuit Homelands and Arctic Indigenous Peoples,” “Ice as Alive and

In winter quarter 2021 our affiliated faculty, students and staff engaged in activities that grow an understanding of Canada at UW and beyond. Ellen A. Ahlness, doctoral candidate in Political Science and 2020-21 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Inuktitut gave a lecture titled “The Arctic Council and Permanent Participants’ Power” at the Breaking

When I first came to Western in 2008 as an assistant professor of French, former C/AM director Don Alper immediately welcomed me into the Canadian-American Studies’ program by inviting me to lunch. That lunch changed the trajectory of my career as the Center’s academic and non-academic programming assisted and supported my growth as a teacher-scholar