Former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow Samantha Farquhar was recently awarded her doctorate in integrated coastal sciences by East Carolina University. Her dissertation, “The impacts of industrial fishing on household food security: insights from the Canadian North,” explores the intersection of industrial fisheries and food security in Arctic communities, providing key insights into

Sarah Kate Moore, FLAS fellow in French (2023-24) is now a part-time lecturer in the UW Department of French and Italian Studies.  “I was honored to attend the University of Laval’s Advanced Training for Teachers of French as a Foreign Language in Québec City this summer (2024), after graduating with my MA in French from

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

During her FLAS fellowship, Robyn Long interned at the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada and co-wrote a now published paper with her colleagues there. Robyn Long, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellow in French (2021-22), interned at the Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) Canada during her master’s program. Robyn, Selma Ford and John Crump – all

Samantha Farquhar was awarded a U.S. Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad to research fisheries and food insecurity in Nunavik, Canada. Samantha Farquhar was awarded two Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships to study French by the Canadian Studies Center for the Summer of 2018 and the 2018-19 academic year. She graduated

In early January, Andrea Geiger (Simon Fraser University) read from her new award-winning book, Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands (2022). Making a vital contribution to our understanding of North American borderlands history through its examination of the northernmost stretches of the U.S.-Canada border, Geiger highlighted the role that the North

Samantha Farquhar, Canadian Studies Center Foreign Language and Area Studies alum (2018) and current PhD student at East Carolina University’s Integrated Coastal Sciences program, was awarded the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) Enders Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship will allow Samantha to pursue her dissertation work on the relationship between industrial fishing

Former FLAS fellow Ellen Ahlness (Inuktitut, 2018-2021) recently shared the following words about her experiences with the Canadian Studies Center: “I credit my experiences with the Canadian Studies Center, and the Arctic and International Relations program, as shaping my path to where I am today. The faculty, staff, and graduate students in the center are

Lindsey Popkin just graduated with her master’s degree from the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs in June 2021. In her final year she also studied Nuu-chah-nulth, a First Nations language spoken on Vancouver Island with funding from a Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowship through Canadian Studies. Her research focused on Indigenizing sea otter

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