“Ukiuqta’qtumi Hivuniptingnun: One Arctic, One Future,” written by Nadine Fabbi, Canadian Studies Managing Director; Jason Young, former Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow in Inuktitut; and Eric Finke, independent scholar, was recently published in the book One Arctic: The Arctic Council and Circumpolar Governance (2017). The chapter and book are an outcomes of a two-day workshop

I was incredibly fortunate to receive a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship from the Canadian Studies Center last summer. It gave me the chance to improve my French language skills, which will assist my research and compliment my study of law. The legal issues facing refugees and immigrants fascinate me. Specifically, I am

This summer one of the Canadian Studies Center’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellows in French traveled to Québec City to study at L’Université Laval. Amy Delo, MA in International Studies, shares her experience: “Through the Canadian Studies Center and the Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship, I had the incredible opportunity to

In 2008 the UW was the first institution in the nation to award a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Inuktitut. Tim Pasch, the first FLAS Fellow in Inuktitut, went on to receive four more Fellowships and to achieve fluency in the language. His doctoral dissertation was on social media and its impact on

My research as a FLAS Fellow and law student has allowed me to continue to study the Canadian Constitution in unique ways. Last quarter I took a Cannabis Law Seminar, which was a fascinating foray into a burgeoning field of law. Washington State is one of the first states in the nation to legalize recreational

In 2015 Jason Young, a current FLAS fellow and doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography, was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement (DDRI) Grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant, which was awarded jointly by the Geography and Spatial Sciences Program and the Arctic Social Sciences Program, is designed to fund Jason’s

Time can seem both short and a long when you participate in full French Immersion. You will be surprised, too, to hear how your voice remains your own yet sounds distinctly different in French. Thanks to a FLAS Fellowship I voyaged to Québec City this summer to participate in such a linguistic adventure. “Un grand

he coat that Pasch is wearing was made by Benoit approximately 25 years ago, and is designed similarly to the coats that Manitoba police used to wear from before the turn of the 20th century through to the 1950s, approximately. Buffalo coats of this type are now extremely rare in the Prairies and Pasch described

I was funded through the International Council for Canadian Studies Graduate Student Scholarship to conduct research in Montréal in the summer of 2014. My aim in Montréal was to study the West African music community. This was part of a comparative study that looked at West African music scenes in Montréal compared those in Paris,

This summer FLAS fellows Jason Young, a doctoral candidate in Geography, and Walter O’Toole, an English major and Arctic Studies minor, spent three weeks in Igoolik, Nunavut in Canada’s Arctic studying Inuktitut, the Inuit language, with Alexina Kublu, the former Language Commissioner for Nunavut. Walter O’Toole, Creative Writing (major) and Arctic Studies (minor), FLAS Fellow