The Pacific Northwest National Resource Center on Canada (including the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington and Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University) paired up with the Northeast Resource Center to participate in the annual meetings of the National Council for the Social Studies held in San Francisco in November 2017.

The Canadian Studies Center works with many local and international organizations to bring a greater understanding of Canada to the public. This fall the Center partnered with the Lifetime Learning Center to offer a presentation on Canada’s role in the Arctic as part of an eight-part series titled “The Last Place on Earth: The Importance

When I first tell people that I am studying in Vancouver on exchange from Seattle, the typical reaction I get is a bemused, “Why?” This reaction doesn’t come as a surprise to me, since Seattle is only a three-and-a-half-hour drive away. People may not understand the “international component” of my study in Canada. Despite the

I was incredibly fortunate to receive a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the Canadian Studies Center last summer. It gave me the chance to improve my French language skills, which will assist my research and compliment my study of law. The legal issues facing refugees and immigrants fascinate me. Specifically, I am

After participating in the Model Arctic Council in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 2016 and in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 2017, I knew that the best way to teach the Arctic to students would be to conduct a smaller version of the Model Arctic Council in my course, ARCTIC 200. I provided students with some background in

The Jackson School of International Studies was highly visible at the ACSUS conference in Las Vegas in October 2017. Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, and colleagues Mark Watson, Concordia University, and Barry Zellen, Georgetown, co-chaired a successful section called “The North and Arctic Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” The section drew 17 scholars who discussed issues

Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, and Thierry Rodon, Department of Political Science, L’Université Laval, co-edited a special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies called Makippugut (We Are Standing Up): Public Policy and Self-Determination in Nunavik (vol. 47, no. 2). Published in June 2017, the special issue addresses the dynamic policy dialogue currently taking

Dr. Natalie Baloy, originally from Ohio, has lived on the Pacific Coast for over ten years. She completed her master’s and PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and lived on Orcas Island while writing her dissertation. From 2014 to 2016, Natalie completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the University of

Richard Watts, Associate Professor of French and former Chair of the Department of French and Italian Studies (2012–2016), was appointed as the Director of the Canadian Studies Center in November. Rich researches and teaches the cultural and political networks of the francophone world, including Québec. He is the author of Packaging Post/Coloniality: The Manufacture of

The colonial state of Sweden increased pressure on the Indigenous Sámi through legislation that led to increased poverty among Forest Sámis. Two laws in particular impacted their life: the Statutes for Allocation of “State-Owned” Forest Land to Homesteaders (1873) and the Reindeer Husbandry Law (1886). The number of mouths to be fed in the family