2008-09 Graduate Student Distinctions

The Center encourages and supports graduate research across the University of Washington campus. Every year, many UW graduate students receive awards and recognitions for their cross-border research. 2008-09 was an exceptionally good year for the students including the appointments of two of our Affiliated Graduates to tenure-track positions. Please see below for graduation news, research awards, and conference participation.

2008-2009 Student Awards Reception Program (web resolution)

Archived Distinctions

Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellows
Summer 2009
Erin Maloney, Ethnomusicology, French
Jennifer Leider, Evans School of Public Affairs, French
Sylvia DeTar, Music, French
Barbara Bennett, Marine Affairs, French

Academic Year 2009-2010
Rachel Feller, Law, French
Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook, Anthropology, Salish
Jennifer Leider, Evans School of Public Affairs, French
Erin Maloney, Ethnomusicology, French
Julia Colleen Miller, Linguistics, Dane-Zaa

Academic Year 2008-09
Joyce LeCompte-Mastenbrook, Anthropology, Salish
Erin Maloney, Ethnomusicology, French
Julia Miller, Linguistics, Dane-Zaa
Jonathan Santiago, Public Health and Community Medicine, French

Degrees Awarded for Cross-Border Research
Kate Dunsmore, Ph.D., “Communication, Mediating Alliance: The Role of the Press in Sustaining Reciprocity in the U.S.-Canada Relationship,” Chair, Nancy Rivenburgh, December 2008.

Nathalie Hamel, Aquatic and Fishery Science, “Spatial ecology of common murres in the Pacific Northwest and implications for management,” Chair, Julia Parrish, June 2009.

Timothy Pasch, Ph.D., Communication, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow, Inuktitut, “Inuktitut Online in Nunavik: Mixed Methods Web-Based Strategies for Preserving Aboriginal and Minority Languages,” Chair, Anthony Chan, September 2008.

Appointments in Canadian Studies
Kate Dunsmore, tenure-track assistant professor position, Department of Communication Studies, Fairleigh Dickinson, Madison, New Jersey, August 2008.

Timothy Pasch, tenure-track assistant professor position, Communication, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota, August 2009.

Grants / Awards / Distinctions
Shengjun Huang, Evening MBA Class of 2010, selected participant, Canadian Leadership Orientation Program, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 31 May-5 June 2009.

Morna E. McEachern, Social Work, First Runner-Up, Enders Graduate Student Fellowship, Association for Canadian Studies in the US, 2009-2010.

Conference Chairs
Karen Capuder, Anthropology, Chair, 8th Annual Symposium of Native American Graduate Students, University of Washington, 3 April 2009.

Shengjun Huang, 2010 Shadow Leader, 2009 Canada Study Tour, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-16 February 2009.

Morna McEachern, Social Work, “Reimaging Health Care: What We Can Learn from Canada, 4th Annual Canadian Studies Graduate Student Symposium, School of Social Work, University of Washington, 17 April 2009.

Meharpratap Singh, Co-Chair, 2009 Canada Study Tour, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-16 February 2009.

Kelly Voss, Co-Chair, 2009 Canada Study Tour, Vancouver, British Columbia, 12-16 February, 2009.

Annual Canadian Studies Symposium Research Presentations, 17 April 2009
Beth Curry, School of Oceanography, “Freshwater Transport Through the Davis Strait between 2004-2005.”

Nathalie Hamel, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, “Bycatch and Beached Birds: Assessing Mortality Impacts in Coastal Net Fisheries Using Marine Bird Strandings in the Salish Sea.”

Li Leung, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, "FAST Commercial Vehicle Crossing Times between Western Canada and the United States.”

Morna McEachern, School of Social Work, “Children of a Common Mother”: Teen Pregnancy and Political Symbols in US and Canadian Sexual Health Education Guidelines.”

David Pettinicchio, Department of Sociology, “Ethnic Nationalism and Flight: Explaining Anglophone Out-Migration from Québec, 1971-1981.”

Mihyun Seol, College of Forest Resources, “Potential Market for Canadian Forest Product Industry: Trade between Canada and China.”

Scholarship Recipients for Conference Presentations ($200)
Susan Albrecht, Policy Studies and Jackson School of International Studies, paper presentation, "Building on Recent North American Freight Activities," North American Freight Flows: Understanding Changes and Improving Data Sources Conference, Irvine, California, 22-23 September 2008.

Susan Albrecht, Policy Studies and Jackson School of International Studies, paper presentation, "The Future of West Coast Ports: Canada's Gateway and Trade Corridor Initiative and Implications for US Transportation Policy," Transportation Research Forum, 50th Annual Forum, Portland, Oregon, 16-18 March 2009.

Li Leung, Civil and Environmental Engineering, paper presentation, "An Investigation of Commercial Vehicle Crossing Times at the Pacific Highway Port-of-Entry," North American Freight Flows: Understanding Changes and Improving Data Sources Conference, Irvine, California, 22-23 September 2008.

Julia Colleen Miller, Linguistics, "The phonetics of tone in two dialects of Dane-zaa (Athabascan)," Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, San Francisco, 8-11 January 2009.

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