My name is Tsudoi Wada. I am a general linguistics graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Washington. My main fields of interest are endangered and under-documented languages, language documentation and preservation, and semantics. My research is focused on the Dene language Tsek’ene, spoken in northern British Columbia, Canada. I have

This fall quarter, three UW graduate students were awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the Inuit language: Ellen Ahlness, a doctoral candidate in political science; Elena Bell, a doctoral candidate in International Studies, and Elizabeth Wessells, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology. Ellen’s research looks at Indigenous–state relations and Arctic environmental politics and

Elena Campbell, UW Department of History, developed and will be teaching a new course this winter: HSTCMP/ARCTIC 220 At the Top of the World: Arctic Histories. Elena’s new course explores the history of human understanding of and relationship to the Earth’s northernmost regions, by tracing the social, economic, political, and environmental transformations of these areas during

Nadine Fabbi, managing director of the Canadian Studies Center, Patricia Johnston, UW’s Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (2020-22) and Emma Elliot-Groves, School of Education, were together awarded a Global Innovation Fund grant to build an international research network of scholars to address social services and wellbeing in the Canadian Arctic and in other Indigenous communities. The goal

Dr. Kevin Turner is an associate professor at Brock University where he is a co-founder of the Water and Environment Lab. Using techniques spanning multiple disciplines including hydrology, paleolimnology, remote sensing, and spatial analysis, his research team investigates relations among climate, land cover, ground conditions, disturbance and lakes and rivers. He has led 20 field-sampling

The Center for Canadian-American Studies at Western Washington University (WWU) welcomes two new faculty members as assistant professors of Comparative Indigenous Studies: Mary ‘Tuti’ Baker and James Miller. These positions were made possible through the successful U.S. Department of Education Title VI grant that is shared with our Canadian Studies Center, and through the WWU

Unite UW is a cultural exchange program formed by the university to bring together domestic and international students at UW. But for me, it did so much more than that. It was a life changing experience that allowed me to become friends with some of the most amazing people I have ever met. I am

The University of Washington is an institutional member of the University of the Arctic, a cooperative network of universities, colleges, research institutes and other organizations concerned with education and research in and about the North. As an institutional member, UW students can take UArctic courses at no cost and apply those credits to their transcript.

Director of Canadian Studies Rich Watts and colleagues Michael Biggins, Slavic Languages and Literatures, and Heekyoung Cho, Asian Languages and Literatures, were awarded a 2020-21 grant to continue developing programs and activities on new research in translation studies, including program building at the graduate level and the creation of alternative professional pathways for graduate students. The UW

In early September, Study Canada K-12 hosted an event called “The Indigenous land you live on: going beyond land acknowledgements”. Christine McRae, executive director of Native Land Digital held a conversation centered around Native-Land.ca, a website and app that allow users to enter their location and reveal the Indigenous territories upon which they stand. The