My summer in Montreal was an amazing experience. The city has a great mix of Francophone and Anglophone history and culture. The intensive French program at a school in the heart of Old Montreal provided a great chance to improve my language skills from an intermediate to an advanced level. The experience has even inspired

The assistance of the Canadian Studies Center was completely invaluable in the successful completion of my Graduate Program. As my research focuses on the Canadian Arctic, travel to the area was integral to conducting fieldwork and collecting data about social networking among the Inuit. When beginning this project, I had very little knowledge of the

Finishing the Peace Corps in July and heading to Montréal that same month was an incredibly exhausting experience. The switch from river bathing to hot showers was just one of many welcome changes. The last two years working with Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic solidified my interests in health disparities, HIV/AIDS, and migration. I