Check out the Spring 2025 Issue of the Center's Newsletter!

New and Returning Students - Find Program Info here!
Learn more about our program - check out Summer and Fall 2025 course highlights.
Learn more about Canadian-American Studies.

2025 Scholarship Application Portal now open!
All students with an interest in C/AM Studies can apply for the $1,000 C/Am Studies Scholarship. There is no Major/Minor requirement.
Click here for more info! Application deadline: May 4, 2025.
The Center congratulates 2024 C/AM Scholarship recipient Mason Hobson!
Upcoming Events

Canadian American Studies
Canada and the United States, sharing a continent and linked by deep cultural and economic ties, shared historical experiences, and numerous similarities, also exhibit many notable differences. The Canadian-American Studies program offers a comprehensive overview of these relationships, helping students grasp how these similarities and differences influence key cultural, environmental, and economic issues in North America, both today and in the future. The program includes hands-on experiences through field trips to Canada and provides valuable research and internship opportunities. Students can pursue Canadian-American Studies independently or combine it with other disciplines, such as environmental science and policy, international business, geography, anthropology, political science, marketing, communications, journalism, history, and foreign languages, to gain a richer, more nuanced international perspective.
Student outing at Baker Lake during the summer Salish Sea Field School.

Canadian Government and Politics students visit the Parliament House in Victoria, B.C.
News & Events
Scholars Week

C/AM-ENVS 331 student Evan Redman will be presenting a poster at Scholars Week. Stop by Carver Gym on May 14, 9-11am.
Since Time Immemorial - Logging History and the Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty on Haida Gwaii
In this map project, Evan explores the long history of the Indigenous Haida people of Haida Gwaii, their struggle against powers of colonization, and ultimate victory against the industrial destruction of their own lands.
Former C/AM Studies Director pens letter on the importance of U.S.- Canada Relationship

Former Center for Canadian-American Studies director Don Alper published a guest essay in the Cascadia Daily News.
Border monuments like the Peace Arch in Washington, the International Peace Garden in North Dakota and the Peace Bridge in New York celebrate the deep friendship and respect woven into our two nations’ shared history. President John F. Kennedy famously said in 1961, “Geography has made us neighbors, history has made us friends, economics has made us partners and necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.”
C/AM Studies Research Grant
C/AM's Summer Research Grant was awarded to Kristen French of WWU’s Woodring College of Education and Director of Center for Education, Equity and Diversity
Read more about Dr. French's research journey here.

Support the Center for Canadian-American Studies
Your gift will go directly towards supporting vital student scholarships and enable important learning experiences. Click here to view a video on what being part of C/AM Studies means to our students.
Canadian-American Studies Funding Requests
The Center for Canadian-American Studies awards a limited number of grants to faculty and students.
Click here to access the Funding Request Form.