Professor Richard Watts, faculty director of the Canadian Studies Center, has received the Simpson Center for the Humanities’ Society of Scholars Fellowship for academic year 2021-2022, which will allow him to complete his book manuscript titled Reclaimed Waters: Literary History, Translation, and Resource Decolonization in the Francophone Post/colonial World, which includes a chapter on Indigenous literary responses to

I often take walks in my neighbourhood, on the beach, on the coast overlooking Washington state. I unfortunately did not have the opportunity during my exchange to physically go to UW; got to be safe from COVID!  But the virtual format of this year’s Corbett Exchange allowed me to connect online with the other students

Over 40 educators representing 14 states, two provinces and the Yukon territory participated in a 5-part series on current issues in the Arctic. Each week members of our UW Arctic studies community and other colleagues presented on a major theme in Arctic studies. These included “Inuit Homelands and Arctic Indigenous Peoples,” “Ice as Alive and

In winter quarter 2021 our affiliated faculty, students and staff engaged in activities that grow an understanding of Canada at UW and beyond. Ellen A. Ahlness, doctoral candidate in Political Science and 2020-21 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow in Inuktitut gave a lecture titled “The Arctic Council and Permanent Participants’ Power” at the Breaking

When I first came to Western in 2008 as an assistant professor of French, former C/AM director Don Alper immediately welcomed me into the Canadian-American Studies’ program by inviting me to lunch. That lunch changed the trajectory of my career as the Center’s academic and non-academic programming assisted and supported my growth as a teacher-scholar

Patrick Lozar, now an assistant professor at the University of Victoria, was one of 10 fellows supported by the Canadian Studies Center as part of a Mellon Foundation sub-grant in 2015. — My name is Patrick Lozar and I am assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia.

Samantha Farquhar, 2019 FLAS Fellow in French, is working to establish studies in Canada in food security, fisheries and development. Samantha was a 2019 Foreign Language and Area Studies fellow in French through the Center while pursuing a Masters in Marine and Environmental Affairs at UW. Her research focused on Canadian community-based resource issues and

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

Michelle Browne, a first-generation American, has a deep commitment to immigrant communities and the laws that guide them. — As a first-generation American, I believe strongly in a fair and welcoming immigration system that recognizes the contribution immigrants make to their adopted countries. Immigrants grow our economies and infuse our communities with diversity and innovative

Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Art History, developed a micro seminar for graduate students – ART H 597C: First Nations Art, Resistance, and Governance: Haida and Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw Art Against Extraction. The seminar explores, in part, how art of the Northwest Coast functions within the political realm of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and in the face of extractive