Monick Keo, program coordinator for the Center from 2016-18, recently married her partner Ted Bui–both UW alumni. Monick started as a work-study student for the Canadian Studies Center and later was appointed program coordinator. This last December she and her long-time partner married. Monick and Ted met while students at the UW. Planning a wedding during

In February of this year, the Center sponsored a panel discussion with three founding visionaries of the Arctic Council, moderated by Tony Penikett, former premier of the Yukon Territory and UW’s 2013-14 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies. In the decade leading up to the official launch of the Arctic Council countless meetings occurred among

“Inuit Nunangat: The development of a common Inuit territorial and policy space in Canada,” was just published in The Inuit World (2022), edited by Pamela Stern and is one of 24 chapters in The Inuit World, part of the Routledge Worlds series.  The chapter examines the emergence of the Inuit homeland in Canada–Inuit Nunangat–and the

Tram Nguyen, Ph.D., is UW’s Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies whose research concerns social justice and underrepresented communities. As an early-career researcher, Tram Nguyen has an established reputation for strong collaborative work both nationally and internationally and a proven track record for research and teaching excellence and productivity. Tram completed a Canadian Institutes

I always considered Canada our friendly neighbor to the north, but prior to this program, I did not think much further than that. I knew we had close economic and political ties, and that we have defensive commitments to one another, but it goes so much deeper than that. This program has given me the

Although our class of Corbett Exchange students haven’t been able to physically travel across the border to experience life and school in our neighbour countries, we have still been able to share. Share knowledge, share views, share laughs, and importantly we’ve been able to see just how much we share in commonalities and responsibilities looking

The start of 2022 has not been quiet. We are all connected to one another now more than ever. Individuals and groups are taking advantage of our connectivity to manipulate economies, stand up to powerful foes, and to share valuable information for progress. We may be seeing a beginning of a new way of money

Border communities have always fascinated me. It’s absurd yet entirely normal that people lead vastly different lives depending on which side of an arbitrary line they find themselves on. There are dozens of communities straddled along the U.S.-Canada border and I even had the chance to visit one last summer (Cornwall, ON). As a geography

This year has been a tumultuous one for everyone, and personally has been one of the hardest of my life. In the spring of 2021, I was accepted into the Corbett Program and planned to spend my entire next year of school at the University of Washington. I was excited to move to a different

My first memories are of my family’s old house on Bainbridge Island, taking the ferry to or from Seattle. We moved when I was still little, and I spent my elementary and middle school years in Indiana and Tennessee. Even though I’d spent most of my life east of the Mississippi, I held onto the