Last summer, Morna McEachern, Western Association of Canadian Studies, and Stan De Mello, School of Social Work, led a field course deep diving into the Columbia River Treaty modernization effort and meeting with communities and individuals impacted. This is the third field course to focus on the Columbia River Treaty, previously running in 2015 and

The special edition of the American Review of Canadian Studies (ARCS), edited by Center director Nadine Fabbi and 2020-22 Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Patricia Johnston, was just awarded Best Special Issue for 2023 by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. The Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) – an international organization of about 450 editors of scholarly

The Donald C. Helmann Task Force Program is a student-led experiential learning capstone in the Jackson School of International Studies which results in policymaking recommendations presented by students to expert evaluators from the foreign policy field. One of the topics featured this year, Indigenous and International Relations in a Warming Arctic, was led by the

For the second year, the Canadian Studies Center, with generous support from the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies (CAIIS), brought a group of Indigenous students to the University of British Columbia *(UBC) as part of the International Indigenous Paths project. Eight students from the CAIIS Native UW (NUW) Scholar program traveled with Marion

The Canadian Studies Center, with support from the Center for Global Studies and the East Asia Center, recently hosted His Excellency Whit Fraser — former executive director of the national Inuit organization, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami; longtime CBC journalist; former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission; and spouse of Canada’s first Indigenous governor general, Mary

In November 2023, exchange programs manager Marion Ferguson attended the annual Global Inclusion Conference, hosted by Diversity Abroad, as a panel speaker for the session “IDEAS for Indigenous Inclusion in Education Abroad.” The panel featured grantees from the Increase and Diversify Education Abroad for U.S. Students (IDEAS) Program and discussed how their projects work to

In fall quarter 2023, Janessa Chinana, former F0reign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in Haida, passed her doctoral exams advancing to candidacy. Janessa passed both her preliminary and general exams for the doctorate in International Education in fall quarter 2023. The committee members – Miranda Belarde-Lewis, Nadine Fabbi, Sven Hakkanson, and chair, Tony Lucero

In early November, Nadine Fabbi and UW’s 2022-23 Chair in Arctic Studies met with colleagues at the University of Aberdeen to begin work on pedagogy to enhance Arctic studies. The Canadian Studies Center is partnering with the University of Aberdeen and University of Manitoba on the project “Teaching Arctic Environments.” The grant is funded by

Laurie Frederik, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow in French, starts a new position with the Honorable Judge Stephen J. Dwyer, Washington State Court of Appeals this month. Frederik graduated with her JD from UW Law in 2023. She is now finishing her LLM in Sustainable International Development at the UW Law School and

UW students can now study at many of the institutions that are members of University of the Arctic via a partnership developed by UW Study Abroad and Canadian Studies. North2north is the mobility program of the University of the Arctic (UArctic), a network of universities, colleges, research institutes and other organizations focusing on education and