In early August, Amy Delo, MA International Studies and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in French (2017–18), was awarded a “high pass” for her thesis, “Inuit Compromise and Resurgence: The Legacies of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement.” Delo explores the implications of the 1975 agreement through Inuit texts, Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids: Quebec

In July 2018 Consul for Political, Economic and Public Affairs from the Consulate General of Canada, Seattle, Robert Kerr, provided a Canadian perspective on global populism at the 2018 Community College Master Teacher Institute. The workshop addressed the implications of global populist movements on globalization, identity, judicial independence, democracy, refugee movements, press freedom, and gender

Not every teacher training program requires that students “must have valid passport,” but travel and experiential learning is what makes the K-12 STUDY CANADA Summer Institute so unique. At the end of June, fifteen teachers from Washington State, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New Mexico met at the Center for Canadian-American Studies, at Western Washington University (our

At the end of August, Monick Keo, the Center’s Program Coordinator for the past eight years will leave the Center for a position with UW’s Quaternary Research Center. Monick has played a huge role in making the Center’s faculty, students, staff, and activities visible to the UW and the nation. For the past eight years,

“« Tu veux un Queues de Castor? » asked my newfound Québécoise friend. I looked at her strangely. « Pardon? » I replied. She repeated: « un Queues de Castor? » I thought very hard. Surely I was mistranslating this. Do I want a tail of beaver?” 2018–2019 Canadian Studies FLAS fellow Samantha Farquhar spent

Learning Inuktitut through the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the Canadian Studies Center has given me a window into Inuit language, culture, and history. And I’ve had the incredible opportunity to study with Mick Mallon, Canadian linguist and Alexina Kublu, former Language Commissioner for Nunavut, Canada. Mick and Kublu taught us how

The Korea Maritime Institute, Arctic and International Relations Initiative in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (Canadian Studies Center, Global Studies Center, and East Asia Center), and the Aleut International Association partnered to offer a workshop on the Unangax̂ (Aleut) held in Unalaska n the Aleutian Islands. The workshop brought together representatives from

From June 18 to 27, 2018, the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) led a professional development training—a ten-day experiential field course to many sites on the Upper Columbia River in Washington State and British Columbia. Participants included four academics, four graduate students, and two independent scholars from PNWCSC organizations. It was supported by the

Choosing to minor in Arctic Studies was something totally unexpected for me. I took ARCTIC 200: Indigenous Diplomacies and International Relations in the Arctic in my first quarter at UW and fell in love with the culture and discussion about the Arctic environment. At that point, I decided to minor in Arctic Studies, and it

In early June, Anthony (Tony) Chan (1944–2018), Director of the Canadian Studies Center from 1995 to 1999, and author of Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World, passed away in Toronto, Canada, with his family by his side. Chan was an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the UW and renowned scholar