Christina Keppie
Director, Center for Canadian American Studies
About
Dr. Christina Keppie is the Director of the Center for Canadian-American Studies as well as a Professor of French. She received her PhD in French from the University of Alberta in 2008 before moving to Bellingham. Christina’s current research focus is the ethnocultural identity of transboundary Acadians and the impact of cultural tourism on Acadian national consciousness and branding, which she approaches through an ethnographic framework. She has taught widely across Western’s French program curriculum, most notably in phonetics and French-Canadian culture and language. Christina also co-directs the Pacific Northwest National Research Center on Canada, in consortium with the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington. She enjoys a healthy lifestyle of fresh mountain air, adventure travel, cooking, and cats.