Jason Young (UW Information School) is now the project lead for the scholarship-to-policy initiative for the Arctic Studies minor, part of the Jackson School’s International Policy Institute. In winter quarter 2020 he worked with Robert Pavia (Marine and Environmental Affairs) to mentor several students in transitioning their research papers into policy papers. According to Jason,

Affiliated faculty of the Center presented “Big Salmon River and Columbia River Treaty modernization” at the UW’s Environmental Justice Conference. On May 19, 2020, Canadian Studies Center affiliates, Stan de Mello (School of Social Work) and Morna McEachern (Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium) presented “Social Work across the 49th Parallel: Big Salmon River and Columbia

Professor Fritz Wagner, a faculty member in the Department of Urban Design and Planning, gave a talk called “Urban Planning and the Politics of Decision Making: Insights into New Orleans and Aspects of Resilience” on January 26, 2019, to 14 graduate students of the Graduate School of Land Management and Regional Planning at Université Laval

Nadine Fabbi, Managing Director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington, has been invited to serve as Co-Editor of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Canadian Studies by the International Council for Canadian Studies. The journal is published by the University of Toronto Press. Fabbi’s role as one of three Co-Editors involves

Morna McEachern (affiliated faculty of the Center, and Program Manager for the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium) and John Wagner (Associate Professor, Community, Culture and Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Okanagan) were just awarded a Collaboration Mobility Research Grant to support the annual Columbia River Treaty field course in June 2018. Recognizing the value in

Affiliated faculty, Katie Bunn-Marcuse, received a National Endowment for the Humanities-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication, for her project centered in the Kwagiulth First Nation entitled, “A Collaborative Reframing of Franz Boas’s Documentation of the Kwakiutl First Nation in 1930.” View announcement. Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, PhD is the curator of Northwest Native art and director of the Bill Holm Center for the

The Jackson School of International Studies was highly visible at the ACSUS conference in Las Vegas in October 2017. Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, and colleagues Mark Watson, Concordia University, and Barry Zellen, Georgetown, co-chaired a successful section called “The North and Arctic Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” The section drew 17 scholars who discussed issues

Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Center, and Thierry Rodon, Department of Political Science, L’Université Laval, co-edited a special issue of the American Review of Canadian Studies called Makippugut (We Are Standing Up): Public Policy and Self-Determination in Nunavik (vol. 47, no. 2). Published in June 2017, the special issue addresses the dynamic policy dialogue currently taking

The colonial state of Sweden increased pressure on the Indigenous Sámi through legislation that led to increased poverty among Forest Sámis. Two laws in particular impacted their life: the Statutes for Allocation of “State-Owned” Forest Land to Homesteaders (1873) and the Reindeer Husbandry Law (1886). The number of mouths to be fed in the family

Associate Professor Charlotte Coté, Instructor Cynthia Updegrave, and graduate student Jessica Hernandez led a unique UW Study Abroad Program to Canada this summer. The program was co-sponsored by the Department of American Indian Studies, the Canadian Studies Center, and the College of the Environment. The class followed the annual Tribal Canoe Journeys from Washington State