The Center is very pleased to welcome our new work study student, Lucas Contreras. Lucas has just started his first year at the University of Washington. His intended major is microbiology. He is interested in disease research and public health. Lucas went to Niagara Falls once as a child, and this has been his only

In September 2018, the University of Washington Canadian Studies Center, which is housed at the UW Jackson School of International Studies, in partnership with the Center for Canadian-American Studies,Western Washington University (WWU), received over $2 million in Title VI grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education. The award includes a National Resource Center grant

In early August, Amy Delo, MA International Studies and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in French (2017–18), was awarded a “high pass” for her thesis, “Inuit Compromise and Resurgence: The Legacies of the James Bay and Northern Québec Agreement.” Delo explores the implications of the 1975 agreement through Inuit texts, Wrestling with Colonialism on Steroids: Quebec

In July 2018 Consul for Political, Economic and Public Affairs from the Consulate General of Canada, Seattle, Robert Kerr, provided a Canadian perspective on global populism at the 2018 Community College Master Teacher Institute. The workshop addressed the implications of global populist movements on globalization, identity, judicial independence, democracy, refugee movements, press freedom, and gender

At the end of August, Monick Keo, the Center’s Program Coordinator for the past eight years will leave the Center for a position with UW’s Quaternary Research Center. Monick has played a huge role in making the Center’s faculty, students, staff, and activities visible to the UW and the nation. For the past eight years,

The Korea Maritime Institute, Arctic and International Relations Initiative in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies (Canadian Studies Center, Global Studies Center, and East Asia Center), and the Aleut International Association partnered to offer a workshop on the Unangax̂ (Aleut) held in Unalaska n the Aleutian Islands. The workshop brought together representatives from

From June 18 to 27, 2018, the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium (PNWCSC) led a professional development training—a ten-day experiential field course to many sites on the Upper Columbia River in Washington State and British Columbia. Participants included four academics, four graduate students, and two independent scholars from PNWCSC organizations. It was supported by the

In early June, Anthony (Tony) Chan (1944–2018), Director of the Canadian Studies Center from 1995 to 1999, and author of Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World, passed away in Toronto, Canada, with his family by his side. Chan was an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the UW and renowned scholar

Morna McEachern (affiliated faculty of the Center, and Program Manager for the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium) and John Wagner (Associate Professor, Community, Culture and Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan) were just awarded a Collaboration Mobility Research Grant to support the annual Columbia River Treaty field course in June 2018. Recognizing the value in

On April 19, 2018, UW’s Canadian Studies Center joined the London-based international think tank Polar Research and Policy Initiative (PRPI) in co-hosting the 7th High-Level Dialogue on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Arctic during the 2018 Arctic Encounter Symposium, the largest annual Arctic conference in the United States, held at the Bell Harbor International Conference Center