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Professional Development Program for Graduate Students
The Canadian Studies Center works closely with schools and departments across campus to encourage and support graduate student study and research that includes Canada, the Canada-US relationship and Canada's role in the world. Currently over thirty master's, doctoral and professional degree students have joined the program, contributing to the vibrancy of Canadian studies at the UW.
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Marci Brajcich, Social Work Marci is pursing a master’s degree in Social Work and doing her practicum with the Stephen Lewis Foundation, a Canadian organization that helps ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa by funding over 100 community level initiatives that provide care and support to women, orphans, grandmothers and associations of people living with HIV and AIDS in 14 countries. Chair: Stan de Mello Degree Exp: Spring 2010 |
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Sara Jo Breslow, Environmental Anthropology The Last Best Place: A participatory and performance ethnography of salmon habitat restoration in the Skagit Valley Sara is a doctoral candidate with a research focus in the anthropology of environmental science, management and policy, cultural politics of environmental conflicts, perceptions of nature and the environment, and political ecology. She is involved in community-based participatory research trans-disciplinary and international collaborative research in the Pacific Northwest including British Columbia. Degree Exp: 2009 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Jeanette Bushnell, Women Studies Native Women's Knowledges Jeanette is a doctoral student whose research focuses on indigenous methodologies for knowledge building. Degree Exp: on leave |
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Jeff Cao, Forest Resources Jeff is a doctoral candidate whose research involves business-to-business strategies in international trade, especially for wood products trade between US, Canada and China, the three key players in global forest industries. His dissertation is related to comparing innovation and business strategies between wood products industries in China and US under globalization. Chair: Ivan Eastin Degree Exp: Winter 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Karen Capuder, Sociocultural Anthropology |
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Lisa Connell, French and Italian Studies Pedagogically Speaking: Francophone Women's Autobiography and the Learning Subject Lisa is a doctoral candidate whose research involves the Francophone autobiography, with an emphasis on memory in the production of identity and history in Québec, the Caribbean, and Algeria. Chair: Denyse Delcourt Degree Exp: Spring 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Beth Curry, Oceanography Beth is a doctoral candidate looking at the variability of volume, freshwater and heat transports through the Davis Strait. The Davis Strait (located between Baffin Island, Canada and Greenland) is a major pathway for water exiting the Arctic Ocean en route to the North Atlantic Ocean. Chair: Craig Lee Degree Exp: January 2011 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Tania Elliot, Business / International Studies Tania is working towards an MBA and master’s degree in International Studies. Her research focuses on international business. She was a co-leader of the 2008 Study Tour to Canada and was selected as a Fellow for the 2006 Ottawa Leadership Insititute. Degree Exp: June 2009 |
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Christopher Herbert, History |
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Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook, Anthropology (2008-09 FLAS Fellow) My dissertation research explores the processes by which people come to understand and develop particular kinds of attachments to non-human nature through a comparative, trans-boundary study of human interactions with the mountain huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) and with the landscapes where it grows. Chair: Stevan Harrell Degree Exp: 2012 |
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Jennifer Leider, Public Affairs (Summer 2008 FLAS Fellow) My research has focused on comparative policy studies. In 2004 receive an MA degree in Contemporary European Studies from the University of Bath in which I focused on ethical foreign policy strategies. As a graduate student at the Evans School of Public Affairs, I have expanded my research to citizen political engagement through public deliberation. More specifically, I am interested in comparatively looking at the influences of language and identity upon civic engagement within immigrant populations in Quebec and France. I am also interested in relationships between citizen trust in government, the role of civil society and citizen political engagement. Advisor: Mark Long Degree Exp: Spring 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Erin Maloney, Ethnomusicology (2008-09 FLAS Fellow) |
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Morna E. McEachern, Social Work Sexual Health Education in the US and Canada: Political symbolism, history and practice in relationship to teen pregnancy Morna is pursuing a doctorate. Her research focuses on the history of North American educational policies for underserved youth, particularly pregnant and parenting teens. Chair: Susan P. Kemp Degree Exp: Spring 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Julia Colleen Miller, Linguistics (2008-09 FLAS Fellow) The Acoustics of Tone in Dane-Zaa (Athabaskan) Julia is a doctoral candidate who has been a FLAS Fellow since 2006. Currently she is working with elders from two First Nations communities in northern British Columbia to create a lexical database for a dictionary of the language. Over the last couple of summers Julia took part in a collaborative project, Dane Wajich-Dane-zaa Stories and Songs. Chair: Sharon Hargus Degree Exp: Summer 2010 |
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John Norton, Geography (2007-08 FLAS Fellow) John is pursuing a doctorate with a research focuses on the effects of economic restructuring of poverty in North America particularly as it relates to the issues of food security and the environment. |
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David Pettinicchio, Sociology David is working on a doctorate and using exit-voice theory to shed light on the socio-political and economic factors which help explain Anglophone out-migration from the province of Québec between 1971 and 1981. David is also an instructor at Edmonds Community College. Chair: Robert Crutchfield Degree Exp: 2010 |
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Timothy Randall, Business Timothy, co-chair of the 2008 Canada Study Tour, has a strong interest in international business. Tim currently works as a full-time engineer at Boeing. Degree Exp: June 2009 |
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Michael Reese, History Welfare States, Border States: The Evolution of Welfare in Washington State and British Columbia, 1910-1960 Michael is a doctoral candidate investigating how British Columbia came to create a more articulated welfare state than its southern neighbor, despite the fact that Washington had more extensive welfare policies in the first half of the 20th century. Currently he is also teaching for Program on the Environment. Chairs: Richard White, John Findlay Degree Exp: 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Karen Rosenberg, Women Studies Alternative Justice Models in Canada and the United States: The Case of Family Violence Karen's dissertation examines responses to violence against women in Canada and the US. Using discourse analysis to analyze relevant texts and interviews, this comparative study examines how criminal legal responses and alternatives are both practiced and discussed. In addition, this research examines how each mode of intervention imagines justice, community, and the role of government in mediating family relationships. Chair: Judy Howard Degree Exp: 2008 Last updated: August 2008 |
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Jonathan Santiago, Public Health and Community Medicine (2008-09 FLAS Fellow) For the past two years I have been working in migrant health and investigating health disparities among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Migrating for political and economic factors, Haitian migration experiences from Haiti to Canada differ sharply from that of Haiti to the Dominican Republic. Drawing upon my previous research with Haitians and Haitian-Dominicans in the Dominican Republic, I am interested in exploring health disparities between immigrant and second generation Haitian residents in francophone Canada, home to one of the largest populations of Haitians outside the Caribbean. Chair: King Holmes Degree Exp: Summer 2009 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Brian Schefke, History A Naturalists' Empire: Natural History and Imperialism in the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada, 1790-1860 Brian is a doctoral candidate and winner of a 2007-08 Foreign Affairs Canada Graduate Student Research Grant for his work on the activities of naturalists in the Pacific Northwest in the 18th and 19th centuries including institutions they worked with such as the Hudson’s Bay Company. Chair: Bruce Hevly Degree Exp: Winter 2010 Last updated: June 2009 |
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Mihyun Seol, Forest Resources Factors Affecting Firms to Adopt Forest Certification: Chinese Furniture and Flooring Manufacturers’ Perspective Mihyun is a doctoral candidate researching forest certification trends internationally. Degree Exp: Spring 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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MeharPratap Singh, Business |
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Quentin Red Eagle Smith, Social Work |
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Jonathan Tomhave, Communication All Sides of the Lens: First Nations Actors ResistanceJonathan is a doctoral candidate whose research includes indigenous issues in Canada and the US. Chair: Anthony Chan Degree Exp: Fall 2008 |
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Lee Traynham, Civil Engineering (2007-08 FLAS Fellow) Lee is working on a master’s of science researching municipal water supply and demand in the Pacific Northwest. |
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Kelly Voss, Business / International Studies Kelly is pursing an MBA and master’s degree in International Studies. "With Canada being the largest trade partner of the US, I hope throughout my studies to find ways to strengthen the ties between the two countries through the promotion of international trade, which I can later emphasize through business practices." Kelly was also the 2008 Ottawa MBA Leadership Fellow. Degree Exp: Spring 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Wendi A.L. Willeford, History Death and Dying on the Northwest Coast of North America, 1774-1858 Wendi is pursing a doctorate. "My area of study is the 18th and 19th century North American West, particularly the Pacific Northwest. My dissertation examines native and newcomer death practices in the region that now comprises the western parts of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Chair: John Findlay Degree Exp: 2010 Last updated: May 2009 |
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Robbert Zamitis, Business Robbert is pursing an MBA and will be a co-chair for the 2009 Canada Study Tour. He is interested in pursuing cross-border trade and international market development. Degree Exp: Spring 2010 Last updated: June 2009 |
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