Congratulations to 10 UW graduate students who were awarded FLAS Fellowships to study French, Nuu-chah-nulth and Tsek’ene in 2020-21. Lindsey Popken (pictured here) is a graduate student in the School of Marine Environmental Affairs within the College of the Environment. She is interested in sea otter conservation and is developing a project with the Nuu-chah-nulth

Recent alum Betz Mayer (Arctic Studies minor, 2017-2019) is now a program coordinator at the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region (PNWER), a public-private nonprofit that advocates for and advises about the economic well-being of Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana, and the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Yukon and Northwest Territories. In her

Charlotte Coté (American Indian Studies) received a course development grant for a new course on Indigenous food sovereignty in our cross-border region. The Center for Global Studies awarded Charlotte Coté a $2,000 grant in summer 2019 to develop a new course on Indigenous food sovereignty. The course, AIS 380: Indigenous Food Sovereignty, was offered spring

Jason Young (UW Information School) is now the project lead for the scholarship-to-policy initiative for the Arctic Studies minor, part of the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute. In winter quarter 2020 he worked with Robert Pavia (Marine and Environmental Affairs) to mentor several students in transitioning their research papers into policy papers. According to Jason,

Affiliated faculty of the Center presented “Big Salmon River and Columbia River Treaty modernization” at the UW’s Environmental Justice Conference. On May 19, 2020, Canadian Studies Center affiliates, Stan de Mello (School of Social Work) and Morna McEachern (Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium) presented “Social Work across the 49th Parallel: Big Salmon River and Columbia

In early April the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium held its first annual general meeting via Zoom. The Consortium has held an ann of the officers since its founding in 1986. This year was unusual. As a result of the stay-at-home order due to COVID-19, the meeting was held via Zoom. Members joined from University

Nested Federalism, by Gary Wilson, associate director of the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, Christopher Alcantara and Thierry Rodon, was published in February 2020 by University of British Columbia Press. The book is one of the first to provide a comprehensive pan-Arctic view of Inuit governance. From the UBC Press website, “Nested Federalism and Inuit

Twenty French educators from across the state enjoyed an all-day workshop on Québec, in French, from l’Université Laval’s director of language programs. The Canadian Studies Center, in partnership with UW’s Department of French and Italian Studies, Language Learning Center, UW in the High School and the Government of Québec, provided the all-day workshop “Le Québec,

The Center has just released its inaugural podcast, an interview with former UW Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies as part of the Arctic and International Relations series. In the 45-minute podcast, doctoral student and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow in Inuktitut, Ellen Ahlness, interviews Tony Penikett, former Premier of the Yukon Territory

Timothy Pasch, former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow in Inuktitut (2005-09), has become a key contributor to the National Science Foundation’s Arctic Data Center. The Arctic Data Center provides hands-on training for Arctic researchers who would like to learn more about open data. Timothy attended an Arctic Data Center training in fall of