Canadian Studies Center director Nadine Fabbi was recently selected as a finalist for the 2025 Excellence in Global Engagement Award, which recognizes UW faculty and staff for their leadership in fostering global connections through teaching, research, and service. Dr. Nadine C. Fabbi has dedicated over 25 years to advancing global engagement through her roles at

The Canadian Studies Center is supported by Title VI funding from the U.S. Department of Education, and works closely with the program officers who administer the funds and support our many programs and initatives. Our longtime Title VI program officer Carolyn Collins shares her thoughts on leaving a career at the U.S. Department of Education:

As part of his course on Arctic environmental change and challenges, ARCTIC 401, professor and Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies Andrew Medeiros invited guest speakers from across northern Canada to share their work and perspectives with students. Jamal Shirley, Director, Innovation and Research at the Nunavut Research Institute, Nunavut Arctic College, joined the

Johnathan Tran, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in French, has been selected to participate in the 2025 Critical Canadian Studies Summer School hosted by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University. The summer program, titled “Studying Canada Responsibly,” will bring together doctoral students from outside Canada and from York in a

Pirkko Viljakainen participated in the north2north exchange program for fall 2024. My name is Pirkko. I am a fourth-year law student at the University of Lapland. I’m originally from Tampere, a town in Southern Finland. During the autumn quarter of 2024 I had the incredible opportunity to study at the University of Washington in Seattle

Andrew Medeiros, 2024-25 Fulbright Canada Visiting Chair in Arctic Studies, spent winter quarter teaching ARCTIC 401 – The Arctic: Environmental Change and Challenges. The class examines on the causes and consequences of global environmental change and interactions with ecological processes and challenges for the human environment, with a focus on Inuit perspectives and knowledge. As

On February 20, over 40 Arctic researchers at UW from faculty to graduate and undergraduate students gathered for an event sponsored by the UW Office of Research called “Fostering an Arctic Research Community at UW.” Participants came from the many departments and institutes at UW doing research relating to the Arctic and northern latitudes, including

Although my time in Canada is coming to a close, I am happy that I can look back at all the exciting times that I have had. Even with all of the challenges that has come with it, I have no doubt that if I had the chance I would do it all over again.

On March 4th, author Juliana Léveillé-Trudel presented her book Nirliit and held a question and answer session with the students of French/JSIS 441: Quebecois Literature. The event was held in the Smith Room at Suzzallo, and it was sponsored by the Center for Canadian Studies, the Department of French and Italian studies, the Centre de la Francophonie

In mid-February Craig Weichel, Canadian Consul General in Seattle, visited JSIS B 200: Sports and Diplomacy, taught by JSIS director Danny Hoffman. The class covers how, globally throughout history, sports (such as ping pong, Olympic hockey, and soccer’s World Cup) have been a tool for negotiating political relationships. Students learn how sport matters in the