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Canadian Studies Faculty
The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies is a long-standing leader in Canadian Studies. Today, over seventy faculty and researchers, representing sixteen departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, ten professional schools, and all three UW campuses, contribute to knowledge and expertise on Canada, its relationship to the US and its role in global affairs.
Faculty by School/Department
Faculty Research (Alphabetical Order)
FACULTY BY SCHOOL/DEPARTMENT
2009-10 Canada-US Visiting Fulbright Chair
Rob Williams, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, University of British Columbia
UW SEATTLE
College Of Arts And Sciences
American Ethnic Studies
Tetsuden Kashima, Professor (1989)
Gail Nomura, Associate Professor (2005)
American Indian Studies
Thomas G. Colonnese, Senior Lecturer/Director (1996)
Charlotte Coté, Associate Professor (2001)
Alexandra Harmon, Associate Professor (1997)
Daniel Hart, Professor/Chair, Canadian Studies (2000)
Dian Million, Assistant Professor (2001)
Mary C. Wright, Senior Lecturer (2002)
Anthropology
Benjamin Fitzhugh, Associate Professor (2000)
Art
Christopher Ozubko, Professor/Director (1983)
Art History
Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse, Visiting Lecturer (2009)
Robin K. Wright, Professor (1987)
Communication
Natalie Debray, Lecturer (2008)
Kathleen Fearn-Banks, Associate Professor (1992)
Philip N. Howard, Associate Professor (2003)
Economics
Neil Bruce, Professor (1995)
Shelly Lundberg, Professor (1987)
English
Monika Kaup, Associate Professor (2003)
Leroy Searle, Professor (1989)
Ethnomusicology
Ter Ellingson, Professor (1988)
French and Italian Studies
Denyse Delcourt, Associate Professor (1992)
Geography
William Beyers, Professor (1990)
Kim England, Professor (1999)
James W. Harrington, Professor (1999)
Jonathan D. Mayer, Professor (1987)
History
John Findlay, Professor (1989)
Richard R. Johnson, Professor (1988)
Linda Nash, Associate Professor (2000)
Jackson School of International Studies
Nadine Fabbi, Associate Director, Canadian Studies (1999)
Frederick Michael Lorenz, Senior Lecturer (2008)
Linguistics
Sharon Louise Hargus, Professor (1990)
Julia Herschensohn, Professor/Chair (1988)
Women Studies
Luana Ross, Associate Professor/Co-Director, Native Voices (2000)
Shirley Yee, Associate Professor (1990)
College Of Built Environments
Urban Design and Planning
Daniel Abramson, Associate Professor (2001)
Marina Alberti, Professor (1997)
Branden Born, Assistant Professor (2004)
Manish Chalana, Assistant Professor (2005)
Dennis M. Ryan, Associate Professor (1999)
Anne Vernez Moudon, Professor (1982)
Fritz Wagner, Research Professor (2007)
Michael G. Foster School of Business
Debra Glassman, Senior Lecturer (1998)
College of Education
Educational Psychology
Brinda Jegatheesan, Assistant Professor (2008)
College of Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Anne Goodchild, Assistant Professor (2007)
Mark Hallenbeck, Director, Washington State Transportation Center (2007)
Chemical Engineering
G. Graham Allan, Professor (1989)
College of the Environment
Forest Resources
Ivan Eastin, Professor/Director, Center for International Trade in Forest Products (1994)
Thomas Hinckley, Professor (2003)
Dorothy Paun, Associate Professor (2001)
Clare Ryan, Professor (1999)
Marine Affairs
David Fluharty, Associate Professor (1989)
Vladimir Kaczynski, Associate Professor (2005)
Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
Global Trade, Transportation and Logistics Studies
Greg Shelton, Instructor/Managing Director (2003)
School of Law
Michael Robinson-Dorn, Associate Professor/Director, Berman Environmental Law Clinic (2006)
College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences
Aquatic and Fishery Sciences
Vincent F. Gallucci, Professor (1994)
Ray Hilborn, Professor (1989)
James R. Karr, Professor Emeritus (1993)
Oceanography
John Delaney, Professor (2002)
Peter Rhines, Professor (2004)
Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs
C. Leigh Anderson, Professor (2002)
School of Public Health
Aaron Katz, Principal Lecturer/Director, Packard-Gates Population Leadership Program (1995)
Jack Thompson, Senior Lecturer (2005)
School of Social Work
Stan de Mello, Lecturer/Practicum Coordinator (1998)
UW BOTHELL
Education
Cherry A. McGee Banks, Professor (2002)
Nursing
Carol J. Leppa, Professor (2008)
UW TACOMA
Education
Annette Henry, Professor (2005)
Marcy Stein, Professor (2007)
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences
Michael Allen, Professor (2008)
Katie Baird, Associate Professor (2007)
Erica Cline, Assistant Professor (2009)
Social Work
Charles Emlet, Associate Professor (2009)
Janice Laakso, Associate Professor (2004)
Urban Studies
Brian Coffey, Professor/Director (2009)
Libraries
Sion Romaine, Canadian Collection Development Librarian (2006)
FACULTY RESEARCH (ALPHABETICAL ORDER)
DANIEL ABRAMSON, PhD Tsinghua University (1998) Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; Canada-US comparative studies in urban identity, conservation and design, housing and community development, urban studies in emerging/resurgent market economies and transnational communities
MARINA ALBERTI, PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992) Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; urban ecology, environmental planning, environmental negotiation between Canada and the US
G. GRAHAM ALLAN, PhD University of Glasgow (1955) Professor, Forest Resources and Chemical Engineering; creativity and innovation, fiber and polymer science, forest management in the Pacific Northwest including Canada
MICHAEL ALLEN, PhD University of Washington (1985) Professor, History and American Studies, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma; North American frontiers, Pacific Northwest history in Canada and the US, Western Canadian rodeos, cowboys and cowgirls, folk and country music in Canada
C. LEIGH ANDERSON, PhD University of Washington (1989) Professor, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs; international development, trade and the environment in Canada and the US, cultural policy
KATIE BAIRD, PhD University of Massachusetts (2003) Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma; public sector economics, economics of education, comparative approach (Canada-US) to public economics and educational policy
KATHRYN BUNN-MARCUSE, PhD University of Washington (2007); Managing Editor, Bill Holm Center for the Study of Northwest Coast Art, Burke Museum; Visiting Lecturer, Division of Art History, University of Washington; research on indigenous Northwest Coast Art, currently focusing on body adornment.
ERICA CLINE, PhD University of Washington (2004); Assistant Professor, Environmental Sciences Program, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma; forest ecology; soil microbiology and mycorrhizal ecology; research interests in environmental implications of forestry practices in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia
CHERRY A. MCGEE BANKS, PhD Seattle University (1991) Professor, Education, University of Washington, Bothell; citizenship education in Canada and the US, national responses to diversity and maintenance of national cohesion, multicultural education, curriculum studies and instruction, social studies
WILLIAM BEYERS, PhD University of Washington (1967) Professor, Geography; early settlement history in North America, Pacific Northwest history
BRANDEN BORN, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003) Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; planning process and social justice in societal decision-making, land use planning and regionalism, urban food systems in North America
NEIL BRUCE, PhD University of Chicago (1975) Professor, Business and Economics; public finance, public sector economies
MANISH CHALANA, PhD University of Colorado (2005) Assistant Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; Urban history, digital design, historic preservation and planning, cultural resource management, vernacular cultural landscapes, South Asian immigration in North American and urban parks
THOMAS G. COLONNESE, PhD University of Arizona (1981) Senior Lecturer and Director, American Indian Studies and Assistant Vice President, Office of Minority Affairs; Native American and First Nation, Inuit and Métis literature and contemporary issues
CHARLOTTE COTÉ, PhD University of California, Berkeley (2002) Associate Professor, American Indian Studies; Native American law, politics, governance and sovereignty issues, Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth whaling traditions, Canada and the U.S Indian education policy, First Nation, Inuit and Métis filmmakers in Canada, Native North American women and gender issues
STAN DE MELLO, MSW, MPA Dalhousie University (1981) Lecturer and Practicum Coordinator, Social Work; cross-cultural practices, Canada’s First Nations communities and development
NATALIE DEBRAY, PhD University of Washington (2007) Lecturer, Communications; Media, memory, cultural identity, Québec
JOHN DELANEY, PhD University of Arizona (1977) Professor, School of Oceanography and Director, NEPTUNE program; marine geology, specifically of the Juan de Fuca ridge in the northeast Pacific Ocean, submarine hydrothermal systems
DENYSE DELCOURT, PhD University of Montreal (1987) Associate Professor, French and Italian Studies; Québecois literature, literature of French middle ages, French women and French Renaissance literature
IVAN EASTIN, PhD University of Washington (1992) Professor, Forest Management and Engineering, Forestry and Director, Center for International Trade in Forest Products; forest products marketing
TER ELLINGSON, PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison (1979) Professor, Music, Comparative Religion and South Asian Studies; ethnomusicology, cultural anthropology, North American history
CHARLES A. EMLET, PhD Case Western Reserve University (1998), Associate Professor of Social Work (Tacoma), HIV/AIDS in older adults in North America; HIV stigma, disclosure and service delivery; psychosocial elements of living with HIV disease in the United States and Canada
KIM ENGLAND, PhD Ohio State University (1988) Professor, Geography; urban social geographies, feminist geographies, labor markets
NADINE FABBI, MA Carleton University, Ottawa (1992) Associate Director, Canadian Studies Center; Inuit governance in Canada, history of the North, contemporary issues in the Arctic
KATHLEEN FEARN-BANKS, MS University of California, Los Angeles (1965) Associate Professor, Communications; crisis communications, public relations, Canadian media
JOHN FINDLAY, PhD University of California, Berkeley (1982) Professor, History and Director, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest; western North America
BENJAMIN FITZHUGH, PhD University of Michigan (1996) Associate Professor, Anthropology and Director, Kodiak Archeological Field School; Arctic history, complex hunter-gatherers in North America, cultural change, spatial analyses of settlement systems
DAVID FLUHARTY, PhD University of Michigan (1977) Associate Professor, Marine Affairs; coastal environmental management
VINCENT F. GALLUCCI, PhD North Carolina State University (1971) Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; conservation of marine resources around the world, shark population dynamics and demography, international and world fisheries management, biostatistics; population dynamics, mathematical modeling, ecological implications for shark abundance and distribution in Puget Sound and Canada
DEBRA GLASSMAN, PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison (1980) Senior Lecturer, Michael G. Foster School of Business; international business and finance
ANNE GOODCHILD, PhD University of California, Berkeley (2005) Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering; freight transportation and logistics, aviation logistics, freight transportation and air quality, freight terminal operations
MARK HALLENBECK, Director, Washington State Transportation Center, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Engineering; the efficient and secure movement of people and freight across the Canada-US border, design and operation of transportation systems within major urban environments
SHARON LOUISE HARGUS, PhD University of California, Los Angeles (1985) Professor, Linguistics; phonology, indigenous languages including Witsuwit'en from
ALEXANDRA HARMON, PhD University of Washington (1995) Associate Professor, American Indian Studies; history, law, and questions of ethnic identity and economic culture affecting indigenous North Americans and their descendants
JAMES W. HARRINGTON, PhD University of Washington (1982) Professor, Geography; regional incidence and effects of Canadian investment in US border regions, motivations of trade policy, international economic interaction
DANIEL HART, MFA Temple University (1984) Professor and Chair, American Indian Studies, Chair, Canadian Studies, and Co-Director, Native Voices; indigenous media
ANNETTE HENRY, PhD Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (1992) Professor, Education, University of Washington, Tacoma; multicultural education, gender, race, language and culture in education, qualitative research methodologies
JULIA HERSCHENSOHN, PhD University of Washington (1976) Professor and Chair, Linguistics; syntax, second-language acquisition
RAY HILBORN, PhD University of British Columbia (1974) Professor, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; fisheries population dynamics and management and natural resource conservation, fishery resources of the west coast of the US, Canada, New Zealand and Australia
THOMAS HINCKLEY, PhD University of Washington (1971) Professor and Interim Director, Forest Resources; ecology and physiology of forest ecosystems
PHILIP N. HOWARD, PhD Northwestern University (2002) Associate Professor, Communications; political communication and the role of new media in social movements and deliberative democracy, work in new economy and e-commerce firms, application of new media technologies in addressing social inequalities in the developing world
BRINDA JEGATHEESAN, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2005) Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, College of Education; sociolinguistics, multilingualism and children with autism, ethnomedical beliefs, bioethics and early intervention, disability, culture and religion, cultural psychology of child-animal bond, ethnography and case study research methods; international comparative research
RICHARD R. JOHNSON, PhD University of California, Berkeley (1972) Professor, History; early North American history and comparative colonial history that encompass Canadian history, history of the American Revolution
VLADIMIR KACZYNSKI, PhD University of Gdansk (1973) Associate Professor, Marine Affairs; human dimensions of the marine environmental change, developing and transition economies, Russian and East European ocean affairs, international strategic planning of marine resources
JAMES R. KARR, PhD University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1970) Professor Emeritus, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences; ecology and environmental studies, tropical forest ecology, ornithology, stream ecology, watershed management, landscape ecology, conservation biology, ecological health, ecological risk, environmental policy
TETSUDEN KASHIMA, PhD University of California, San Diego (1975) Professor, American Ethnic Studies; Asian American and Canadian history, incarceration and internment of Japanese North Americans, Japanese North American attitudes and beliefs
AARON KATZ, CPH University of Toronto (1975) Principal Lecturer, Public Health, and Director, Health Policy Analysis Program; health policy, leadership, international health, market change, rural health
MONIKA KAUP, PhD Ruhr University (1991) Associate Professor, English; North American multiculturalism, literature of the Americas, Chicano/Chicana writing, Canadian writing, madness in women’s literature, post-Cold War Cuban American cultures
JANICE LAAKSO, PhD University of Texas, Austin (1999) Associate Professor, Social Work, University of Washington, Tacoma; social Policy in the US focused on families and historical approaches to social welfare, cultural diversity and social justice
CAROL J. LEPPA, PhD University of Illinois at Chicago (1990) Professor, Nursing Program, Bothell Campus; teaching in ethics and health care policy; study-abroad course in comparative health care systems - US, UK, and Canada; research in quality of life at end of life in nursing homes
FREDERICK MICHAEL LORENZ, LLM National Law Center, George Washington University (1982) Senior Lecturer, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies; Canada-US comparative studies focusing on military and peacekeeping policy, Canada’s role in the International Criminal Court and the Ottawa Landmine Convention
SHELLY LUNDBERG, PhD Northwestern University (1981) Professor, Economics; labor economics, family economics
JONATHAN D. MAYER, PhD University of Michigan (1977) Professor, Geography, Epidemiology, Global Health, Medicine (Div of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Family Medicine, and Health Services; medical geography, spatial patterns of health and disease, global environmental change and public health, comparative health care systems
DIAN MILLION, PhD University of Washington (1999) Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies; native family and social issues in US and Canada, native education in US and Canada, American Indian and Canadian indigenous literatures, interdisciplinary research and teaching, narrative theories
LINDA NASH, PhD University of Washington (1999) Associate Professor, History; North American environmental history, history of the North American west, twentieth-century US culture
GAIL NOMURA, PhD University of Hawai`i, Manoa (1978) Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies; Asian American and Pacific Islander American history, ethnic studies, women’s history, race and ethnicity, Asian Canadian history, intersections and divergences in the experiences of Asians in Canada and the United States
CHRISTOPHER OZUBKO, MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art (1981) Professor and Director, Art; typography and design history
DOROTHY PAUN, PhD University of Oregon (1993) Professor, Forest Resources; finance, accounting, marketing, and management from a forest products perspective; financial statement analysis and performance review of the Canadian and US paper industry
PETER RHINES, PhD Cambridge University (1971) Professor, Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences; climate change and physics of deep convection in the Labrador Sea and Davis Strait, Canada, theory of the general circulation of the ocean and its waves and eddies, atmospheric and climate dynamics (particularly in the subpolar oceans), sea-going projects in high-latitude climate change, laboratory
MICHAEL ROBINSON-DORN, JD Cornell University (1991) Associate Professor, Law and Director, Berman Environmental Law Clinic; environmental law, natural resources, environmental litigation, administrative law, comparative Canada-US environmental law; transboundary environmental issues and climate change
SION ROMAINE, MAS, MLIS University of British Columbia (2002) Canadian Studies Development Librarian and Project Librarian, Library Serials Services Division; collections and services related to Canadian Studies, library acquisitions and technical services
LUANA ROSS, PhD University of Oregon (1992) Associate Professor, Women Studies and Co-Director, Native Voices; race/ethnic relations and gender, documentary film
CLARE RYAN, PhD University of Michigan (1996) Professor, National Resource Policy and Conflict Management; natural resource policy formulation and implementation, environmental conflict management, collaborative processes, water resource policy and management, urban ecology
DENNIS M. RYAN, PhD University of Pennsylvania (1975) Associate Professor, Urban Design and Planning and Director, Undergraduate Community and Environmental Planning, College of Built Environments; community-building, ethics and identity, service-learning in planning, urban place identity and interpretation, applied urban design and planning
LEROY SEARLE, PhD University of Iowa (1977) Professor, English; North American literature, intellectual history, theory of criticism, literature and other arts (music, photography), intellectual history, computer science
GREG SHELTON, MMA University of Washington (1997) Instructor and Managing Director, Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics Studies; international trade, US-Canada cross-border trade and transportation issues
MARCY STEIN, PhD University of Washington (1988) Professor, Education, University of Washington, Tacoma; special education and the education of students at risk for academic failure with an emphasis on diverse students including aboriginal and Native American students
JACK THOMPSON, MSW University of Washington (1976) Senior Lecturer, School of Public Health and Community Medicine and Director, Northwest Center for Public Health Practice; public health practice, policy, organizational development and management, comparative health care delivery in Canada and the US, oversight of liaison activities with state and tribal partners and partner institutions in the six northwestern states and with tribal partners
ANNE VERNEZ MOUDON, DSc University of Laussanne (1987) Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built environments; urban and neighborhood design and urban form analysis
FRITZ WAGNER, PhD University of Washington (1974) Research Professor, Urban Design and Planning, College of Built Environments; land use/legal aspects of urban planning to health policy across urban and rural communities in developed and developing countries with a particular focus on comparative urban planning in Canada, the US and Mexico
MARY C. WRIGHT, PhD Rutgers University (1996) Senior Lecturer, American Indian Studies and History; native women’s history and Native American culture in North America
ROBIN K. WRIGHT, PhD University of Washington (1985) Professor, Art History and Curator, Burke Museum; Native American art and Northwest Coast Indian art
SHIRLEY YEE, PhD Ohio State University (1987) Associate Professor, Women Studies; migration of African Americans to Canada, US history, specializing in the 19th century women’s history and African American history, Chinese and Irish women’s migration history
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