Former FLAS fellow Ellen Ahlness (Inuktitut, 2018-2021) recently shared the following words about her experiences with the Canadian Studies Center: “I credit my experiences with the Canadian Studies Center, and the Arctic and International Relations program, as shaping my path to where I am today. The faculty, staff, and graduate students in the center are

Kick off the start to the school year by guiding yourself around campus using the Indigenous Walking Tour of Seattle’s UW campus, created by Corbett Exchange Program alum Owen Oliver (fall 2019). Owen’s time at the University of British Columbia inspired what would become the Indigenous Walking Tour. You can read more about that inspiration

Eva Khosin, one of the first students to declare a major in the new Global and Regional Studies program, will study at UBC in winter quarter 2022. — My name is Eva Khosin and I am entering my third year as a global and regional studies major in the Jackson School at the University of

“If Not Here, Then Where? Indigenous Education in Canada,” a free webinar for K-16 educators, kicked off a fall series of workshops designed for U.S.-based educators interested in teaching and researching Canadian topics. Over 90 people registered for the event, held on September 28. In response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Calls to

Yoshitaka Ota served as director of the Nereus Program, a global interdisciplinary initiative between the Nippon Foundation and the University of British Columbia to further knowledge about how to best attain sustainability for the world’s oceans, between 2011 and 2019. During that time, he identified a capacity and knowledge gap in addressing the widening inequality in

Maya Angela Smith, an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies, focuses on the intersection of racial and linguistic identity formations among marginalized groups in the African diaspora, particularly in the francophone world. She also researches how Blackness is constructed in francophone regions as well as how French studies can diversify and

Andy Meyer, a newly appointed assistant teaching professor in the Department of Scandinavian Studies, focuses on Norwegian and North American language and literature, with an emphasis on ecocriticism, poetry and poetics, and Arctic studies. His work and much of his teaching is engaged in questions about the relationship between literary imagination and the concept of

P. Joshua Griffin is an environmental anthropologist working at the intersections of Indigenous studies, political ecology, critical social science, and climate change. His community-engaged research focuses on Arctic Indigenous ecologies, climate change, environmental health, food sovereignty, hunting and fishing governance/rights, and environmental planning. More broadly, he is interested in approaches to “climate adaptation” that center

Mia Bennett is beginning at UW this fall as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography. As a political geographer with geospatial skills, through fieldwork and remote sensing, Mia researches the geopolitics of development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and the more remote corridors of China’s Belt and Road Initiative.

“As you grieve the loss of Siôn*, let me assure you that I bring years, even decades of experience as a subject librarian!” Back when the SARS pandemic struck in the early 2000s, I was taking a bus in Toronto with my five-year-old daughter when she began regaling the passengers with her original song, “the