Adam Werle, an alum in International Studies, Japan track, now teaches Nuu-chah-nulth to Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows. Read more in his words: — I discovered in high school that I am fascinated by languages. Before university, I studied Spanish, Japanese, and French. At the University of Washington, I took linguistics, and studied

For decades, Chuck Hart was an integral part of the Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada. We are so saddened by this loss, and will fondly remember his enthusiasm and dedication. Please read this wonderful tribute from our partners at the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University. — From Western Today: https://westerntoday.wwu.edu/news/in-memoriam-chuck-hart November

Kyla Sweet, K-12 education and curriculum specialist for the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University, and colleagues from the other federally-funded National Resource Center on Canada participated in the annual National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) conference. Like so many things this year, the NCSS 2020 conference was “unprecedented” and virtual. Originally

Dozens of faculty, students, staff and alums are engaged in Canadian Studies. Read here about their recent publications, grants and activities. We’d love to cover you in our next e-news – write us at canada@uw.edu. — Ellen Ahlness, doctoral candidate, Political Science and 2020-21 FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut published her chapter, Battling the past: Social,

This documentary, available through UW Libraries, tells the story of how art played a key role in the success of the Inuit and Cree co-ops in Nunavik, Québec. Atautsikut/Leaving None Behind: La Fédération des cooperatives du Nouveau-Québec (2019) is a film by John Houston produced by Atautsikut Production Ltd. The 60-minute film is in English

Many publishers, including large commercial publishers like Routledge and Springer, are steadily expanding their offerings of Arctic-themed monographs. UW Libraries continues to acquire resources to support Canadian Studies, particularly resources focused on the Arctic, the North and Canada’s Indigenous peoples. Recent acquisitions include: Atautsikut/Leaving None Behind In this streaming video, Nunavik Inuit and Cree Elders

Max Showalter, Ph.D. in Oceanography (2020) has been awarded a 2021 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Max Showalter will serve as an Ocean Policy Fellow at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This year-long position, which begins in February 2021, is the

My name is Tsudoi Wada. I am a general linguistics graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington. My main fields of interest are endangered and under-documented languages, language documentation and preservation, and semantics. My research is focused on the Dene language Tsek’ene, spoken in northern British Columbia, Canada. I have

This fall quarter, three UW graduate students were awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the Inuit language: Ellen Ahlness, a doctoral candidate in political science; Elena Bell, a doctoral candidate in International Studies, and Elizabeth Wessells, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology. Ellen’s research looks at Indigenous–state relations and Arctic environmental politics and

Elena Campbell, UW Department of History, developed and will be teaching a new course this winter: HSTCMP/ARCTIC 220 At the Top of the World: Arctic Histories. Elena’s new course explores the history of human understanding of and relationship to the Earth’s northernmost regions, by tracing the social, economic, political, and environmental transformations of these areas during