In fall quarter 2023, Janessa Chinana, former F0reign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in Haida, passed her doctoral exams advancing to candidacy. Janessa passed both her preliminary and general exams for the doctorate in International Education in fall quarter 2023. The committee members – Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Nadine Fabbi, Sven Hakkanson, and chair, Tony Lucero

In early November, Nadine Fabbi and UW’s 2022-23 Chair in Arctic Studies met with colleagues at the University of Aberdeen to begin work on pedagogy to enhance Arctic studies. The Canadian Studies Center is partnering with the University of Aberdeen and University of Manitoba on the project “Teaching Arctic Environments.” The grant is funded by

Laurie Frederik, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow in French, starts a new position with the Honorable Judge Stephen J. Dwyer, Washington State Court of Appeals this month. Frederik graduated with her JD from UW Law in 2023. She is now finishing her LLM in Sustainable International Development at the UW Law School and

UW students can now study at many of the institutions that are members of University of the Arctic via a partnership developed by UW Study Abroad and Canadian Studies. North2north is the mobility program of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), a network of universities, colleges, research institutes and other organizations focusing on education and

Timothy Pasch (PhD, UW Communication 2008), and Jaakko Putkonen (PhD, UW Geology, 1997) collaborating on Arctic research at a field site along the Dalton Highway near the Yukon River, January 2024. Tim Pasch was the nation’s first FLAS fellow in the Inuit language and studied with Mick Mallon for four years. 

As many fellow scholars, friends, and residents of the Pacific Northwest have recognized, there is a lot that Vancouver and Seattle have in common, from the evergreen coastal landscape, half-rain-half-sunny weather, nonstop construction, to our shared language of English, our large immigrant populations, our liberal political tendencies. However, among all that we share, there remain

Sydney (Mick) Mallon, a renowned Canadian linguist and the Center’s Inuktut instructor, passed away on September 18th at the age of 90. From 2005 to 2019, Mick Mallon taught Inuktut to Foreign Language and Area Studies fellows, as well as other University of Washington students. After 2019, Mick and his wife, Alexina Kublu, taught together.

The Government of Canada is supporting the winter quarter 2024 Task Force on the Arctic with a $25,000 grant from the Global Arctic Leadership Initiative.  Task Force is a unique undergraduate capstone that offers Jackson School students practical experience making policy recommendations. Each Task Force report is produced by teams of student researchers and evaluated

The Center will partner with University of Aberdeen for the grant project “Teaching Arctic Environments” funded by the Scottish Government. Teaching Arctic Environments addresses the need for multi-disciplinary and collaborative pedagogy within and beyond Scottish and North American institutions. This project seizes upon the newly-established Interdisciplinary Research Centres at the University of Aberdeen to develop

In early September, interim director Nadine Fabbi gave the opening talk for the 2023 Program on Climate Change Summer Institute. This year’s institute was titled “Climate Change at the Poles.” Fabbi’s talk titled “Inuit Nunaat, Inuit Nunangat and Arctic Policy” addressed how the Arctic is uniquely impacted by climate change and what Inuit have and