Kayla Stevenson is a graduate student at the UW studying at the School of Marine and Environment Affairs and the Jackson School for International Studies. She received her Bachelor’s in Politics and Government and Environmental Policy and Decision Making from the University of Puget Sound. Kayla is currently serving as a Research Assistant for the Navigating the New

In March 2022, fourteen members of the collaborating team, the three PI’s and a research assistant for a Navigating the New Arctic grant met on zoom to begin discussions on the project, “Co-Designing Civic Education for the Circumpolar North.”  In the workshop three questions were discussed concerning civic education: how do we define Arctic civic

The Center is currently offering a public lecture series “Health Equity, Diversity, Inclusion in Arctic Indigenous Communities in Canada and the U.S.” Thanks to funding from a UW Global Innovations Grant from the Office of Global Affairs, the Center is providing a six-part lecture series on wellness in Arctic Indigenous communities in Canada and Alaska.

The International Policy Institute at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies acquired over 200 blog postings from Arctic in Context that were formerly housed with the World Policy Institute. Since 2015, the Center has been provided two sub-awards from the Jackson School’s Carnegie Corporation of New York grants totaling over $200,000 to build an Arctic

Jason Young is PI on a grant from the iSchool for the project “Co-Designing Open Educational Resources: Indigenous Wellbeing in the Arctic.”  The primary objective of the grant project is to build the capacity of an interdisciplinary team to develop and carry out research related to Indigenous mental health services in the Arctic. The research

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

During her studies at University of St. John’s, Natasha Haycock-Chavez (2016) worked with former UW Fulbright Canada Arctic Chair Joel Heath in Sanikiluaq, Nunavut.  — After graduating from UW in the spring of 2016 with a BA in Economics and minor in Arctic Studies, I kept in contact with Joel Heath, who at the time

In the 2020-21 academic year Marika Vihko enrolled in an Arctic minor course quarterly while working towards an MA in Computer Science in Finland. When UW courses went online last spring, it provided the Center with the opportunity to tap into its membership with University of the Arctic (UArctic) opening up UW courses to UArctic

“Nature is the most efficient and advanced technology that exists – nothing is more sophisticated than nature.” — Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm On February 9th, Chief Dana Tizya-Tramm of the Vuntut Gwich’in First Nation in the Yukon Territory engaged in a 90-minute discussion with Professor Kevin Turner, UW’s 2020-21 Fulbright Canada Chair in Arctic Studies. The