I graduated in the summer of 2011 from the Jackson School of International Studies with a major in International Studies and a minor in Latin American Studies. I am currently enrolled as a Master’s student in comparative politics at McGill University. I always had an interest in indigenous politics but my participation in the Arctic

The Government of Canada, through the Research and Academic Relations Office of the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C., along with the Consulate General of Canada in Minneapolis, MN, has awarded the UND Program in Canadian, Quebec, and North American Francophone Studies a grant totaling CAD $16,000! Read more on page 5.

Originally posted: January 2012 Diana Mackiewicz, Eighth Grade educator at Eagle Hill School, Hardwick, Massachusetts, has utilized professional development workshops on Canada to introduce Canada’s Arctic into the classroom. In January of this year, her students produced a very impressive video on the Inuit culture. Diana is a graduate of the 2012 K-12 STUDY CANADA Summer Institute.

At Kentridge High School in Kent, I have been teaching an Advanced Placement human geography course for juniors and seniors for the past six years. One of our major units in geography during the year is a focus on cultures around the world. I have been fortunate to have established a relationship with the Canadian

In November 2011, Managing Director of the Canadian Studies Center Nadine Fabbi and American Indian Studies faculty Daniel Hart and Luana Ross participated in a field course to Churchill, Manitoba, hosted by the Great Bear Foundation, Montana. The field course, called “Sharing Habitat with Polar Bears,” focused on how the community of Churchill responds to

Workforce Development Center, which is a community based nonprofit organization. Henry Street Settlement opens doors of opportunity in a community which has historically been and continues to be one of the most ethnically diverse communities in the nation. Foreign-born residents comprise 37.7 percent of the population, and 56 percent speak a language other than English at home. [henrystreet.org] During my

Originally posted: 2011 As I write these lines, I am still in Ottawa, packing my luggage – and my excitement! – en route to Seattle. To be honest, I am disquieted by the prospect of leaving the comforts of home on New Year’s Day, but the anthropologist sleeping inside me has awoken my appetite for

Originally posted: 2011 After only three days in Montréal, I’d fallen in love with the city. After three months I remain just as enamored; although now I wear at least three layers at all times. Every day I am constantly struck by the diversity of Montréal. In the west customers are greeted with “hi,” in

In June Fritz Wagner, Landscape Architecture, took 10 U.W. students to Québec as part of the field course, URBDP 498 Summer Course to French Canada. This comparative Urban Design and Planning course was co-led by Dr. Régent Cabana. It examined the similarities and differences between US and Canadian cities with a focus on the current