Learning Nuu-chah-nulth (NCN) and visiting Port Alberni was some of the most fun I’ve had over the summer. Some highlights included: watching Dr. Charlotte Coté (now my new auntie) poke around at starfish when we visited the Broken Islands, to nature walks where we learned the names of plants and creatures in NCN, to relaxing

As a Haida woman and a doctoral student at the University of Washington (UW), I have spent countless hours exploring the campus but I have never connected with my learning environment so profoundly as I did with my Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Xaad Kíl (Haida language) class. I am a member of the

Life-changing is perhaps the best way to describe my time at the University of Washington. For someone who had never visited the west coast before, it was a perfect place to live my experience as a Killam Fellow. A typical day during my time here would start with a run or a walk on the

In June of this year, a team of University of Washington researchers and faculty kicked off a new partnership with the community of Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories, Canada. One of the members of the team, Jason Young, is a Canadian and Arctic Studies Affiliate and a former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in the

The Canadian Studies Center was just awarded almost $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Education for a National Resource Center grant with the Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University (WWU); and a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grant. This is for the 2022-26 grant cycle. These grants will support over a

In June, Kevin Turner (Brock University, Ontario) spent two weeks in Old Crow, Yukon collecting data on water and peat samples to understand climate change impacts in the region. Brock University recently shared an article about his field work in Old Crow, Yukon. https://brocku.ca/brock-news/2022/07/brock-geographer-makes-global-connections-during-fulbright-canada-residency/ Kevin shares more about his time at UW below: “The Fulbright

Samantha Farquhar, Canadian Studies Center Foreign Language and Area Studies alum (2018) and current PhD student at East Carolina University’s Integrated Coastal Sciences program, was awarded the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Enders Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship will allow Samantha to pursue her dissertation work on the relationship between industrial fishing

The Canadian Studies Center, housed at the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington, has been selected to receive funding support from the U.S. Department of State’s Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program. The University of Washington is one of 44 colleges and universities across the United States

In late June, STUDY CANADA K-12 and Village Books, Bellingham, sponsored Métis author, Natasha Donovan who presented her graphic novel Borders. In Borders, this graphic-book adaptation of award-winning author Thomas King’s The Inconvenient Indian, The Truth About Stories, a young Blackfoot boy and his mother end up in a no-man’s land between the United States

Robyn Long was a FLAS Fellow for French in the 2021-22 academic year while completing her Master of Social Work. As part of the Social Work program, she completed a practicum with the Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada office that involved supporting staff participating in the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group. Her primary project focused