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

Adam Werle, an alum in International Studies, Japan track, now teaches Nuu-chah-nulth to Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows. Read more in his words: — I discovered in high school that I am fascinated by languages. Before university, I studied Spanish, Japanese, and French. At the University of Washington, I took linguistics, and studied

Max Showalter, Ph.D. in Oceanography (2020) has been awarded a 2021 Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Max Showalter will serve as an Ocean Policy Fellow at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). This year-long position, which begins in February 2021, is the

Emma Elliott-Groves, former FLAS fellow with the Center, is now a tenure-track faculty member with the College of Education. Dr. Elliott-Groves is an assistant professor in the Department of Learning Sciences and Human Development in the College of Education. Her research centers on understanding the meanings and explanations of suicidal behavior from the perspective of