Patrick Lozar, now an assistant professor at the University of Victoria, was one of 10 fellows supported by the Canadian Studies Center as part of a Mellon Foundation sub-grant in 2015. — My name is Patrick Lozar and I am assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.

Samantha Farquhar, 2019 FLAS Fellow in French, is working to establish studies in Canada in food security, fisheries and development. Samantha was a 2019 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellow in French through the Center while pursuing a Masters in Marine and Environmental Affairs at UW. Her research focused on Canadian community-based resource issues and

In the 2020-21 academic year Marika Vihko enrolled in an Arctic minor course quarterly while working towards an MA in Computer Science in Finland. When UW courses went online last spring, it provided the Center with the opportunity to tap into its membership with University of the Arctic (UArctic) opening up UW courses to UArctic

Michelle Browne, a first-generation American, has a deep commitment to immigrant communities and the laws that guide them. — As a first-generation American, I believe strongly in a fair and welcoming immigration system that recognizes the contribution immigrants make to their adopted countries. Immigrants grow our economies and infuse our communities with diversity and innovative

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Art History, developed a micro seminar for graduate students – ART H 597C: First Nations Art, Resistance, and Governance: Haida and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw Art Against Extraction. The seminar explores, in part, how art of the Northwest Coast functions within the political realm of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and in the face of extractive

“Nature is the most efficient and advanced technology that exists – nothing is more sophisticated than nature.” — Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm On February 9th, Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm of the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation in the Yukon Territory engaged in a 90-minute discussion with Professor Kevin Turner, UW’s 2020-21 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies. The

School/work/sleep/eat at home: Life can get redundant and boring staring at the same 4 walls at home, a necessary step we must all take to #stopthespread. The Corbett Virtual Exchange has been an opportunity to change my surroundings a bit – just in an online format. This year, instead of attending classes at the University

Like the rest of the world in 2020, the Canadian Studies Center transitioned to online teaching, learning, and engaging with our community. This new shift has created a wonderful space for us to increase accessibility to our programming and to invite the public, friends, and colleagues from around the world to take part in our

“You only have everything to gain when you surround yourself in a place that lets you critically engage in any way you want to.” I ended ‘Living in Place; an Indigenous Student’s Perspective Abroad’ with that sentence. I wrote the piece in October 2019, wrapping up the experience as an Indigenous person studying at the

Researchers from UW’s Information School, Computer Sciences and Engineering, and the Information and Communication Technology for Development Laboratory will all partner on a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as part of the Navigating the New Arctic program. The PI, Kurtis Heimerl is an assistant professor with Computer Sciences and Engineering. Jason Young, co-PI, is a