Join us at 4:00pm on Wednesday, October 16th to meet our faculty, researchers, FLAS Fellows, Corbett Scholars and other exchange students and to hear about their studies and research. RSVP to canada@uw.edu by October 9 to join the Center and some of our community members in the Peterson Room in the Allen Library.

UW students may now declare the Jackson School’s newly revised Arctic Studies minor focused on Arctic peoples and environments with over 20 electives to choose from. The second minor in Arctic Studies in the United States was founded at the University of Washington in 2014. Since that time dozens of students have benefited from courses

Faculty members, researchers, and practitioners from campus and the community join the Center’s 2024-25 advisory board to advance Center goals. The Center’s Advisory Board includes UW faculty members and heads of departments and other units from the Jackson School to the Information School to the Law School and more; leaders from the community including from

The Center welcomes Ben Johnson an assistant professor at Groningen University with a specialization in security challenges in Arctic Canada. Benjamin is an assistant professor of Humane Artificial Intelligence (AI) and International Relations with the Department of International Relations and International Organization (IRIO) at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. His primary research areas are the

This fall, Scott Montgomery, JSIS faculty member, is teaching ARCTIC 391: Climate Change – An International Perspective: Science, Art, and Activism. “Scientists have discovered global climate change, identified its human origins, and are forecasting the consequences for every corner of the globe. There is overwhelming consensus about the facts underpinning our knowledge of climate change.

Jason Young, a former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) recipient in Inuktut who spent two summers studying with Alexina Kublu in Igoolik, Nunavut, is instructing ARCTIC 101 Elementary Inuktut: Inuit Language and Culture in Canada this fall. He studied with Kublu, former language commission for Nunavut and Mick Mallon, one of Canada’s top linguists

Monte Mills joined the UW faculty in 2022 as Charles I. Stone Professor of Law and the Director of the Native American Law Center. He teaches American Indian Law, Property, and other classes focused on Native American and natural resources related topics. This fall, he joined the Center as an affiliate faculty member. Monte’s research

Mia Bennet, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and affiliated faculty with the Canadian Studies Center, just returned from Norway and Svalbard as part of the first meeting of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative team. See the article on the award here.

Chiwa Lee, M.A. student in China Studies, studied French this summer with Alliance Française to support his study of the Canada, China, U.S. relationship. “Most of the time, language study is not solely about the language itself. It always helps us to discover different thinking, logic, and cultures behind different languages. This summer, with the

Sarah Kate Moore, FLAS fellow in French (2023-24) is now a part-time lecturer in the UW Department of French and Italian Studies.  “I was honored to attend the University of Laval’s Advanced Training for Teachers of French as a Foreign Language in Québec City this summer (2024), after graduating with my MA in French from