Four University of Maine students have received Killam Fellowships to help fund their studies atvarious Canadian institutions of higher learning during the 25-26 academic year. The Killam Fellowships Program provides undergraduate students in Canada and the U.S. withopportunities to spend a semester or full academic year in the other country as exchange students.Recipients receive a […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center and the UMaine History Department in welcoming its graduate students to present their research. Event Details Lunch will be provided History Across the Border: History department graduate students present their research and archival experience in Canada features the following students and their research: Joseph Wrobleski: “Wabanaki Legalities and Property Law of […]
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In early November (November 7-9, 2025), Dr. Mark McLaughlin and Dr. Hollie Adams co-led a group of fifteen participants on a Canadian Studies field trip across the border to the city of Fredericton, the provincial capital of New Brunswick. Offered through UMaine’s Canadian-American Center, the trip is an excellent opportunity for students to learn about […]
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Join the Canadian-American Center in welcoming Marie-Andrée Gill to give a virtual presentation at the University of Maine. The author will join us via Zoom and the presentation will be in French. Event Details Marie-Andrée Gill is an artist from the Pekuakamiulnuatsh Nation. Her work explores intimacy, love, humor, and the relationship with living things […]
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In partnership with the Association Internationale des Études Québécoises (AIEQ), the Canadian-American Center offers 50 complimentary copies of AIEQ’s new book, Le Québec, connais-tu?, to K-12 French instructors. The new book aims to provide a general overview of Québec culture and history accompanied by pedagogical activities. To learn more, or to obtain a copy of this book, please […]
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Shawn Francis will discuss the landscape of Wolastoqey (Maliseet) language revitalization in his home community, the Madawaska Maliseet First Nation. Located in what is now Northern New Brunswick, his nation is now predominantlyFrench-speaking, unlike other Wolastoqey communities situated further down the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. He will illustrate the unique context and challenges of Indigenous […]
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Richard Tomczak is the Director of Faculty Engagement and a Research Assistant Professor in the History Department at Stony Brook University, where he received his PhD in History. Richard hasseveral peer-reviewed publications, including an article on corvée labor in the American Revolution,published in the Journal of Colonial History & Colonialism by Johns Hopkins University Press. […]
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Bringing together two recently published books–The Slow Rush of Colonization: Spaces of Power in the Maritime Peninsula (UBC, 2023) and Behind the Bricks: The Life and Times of the Mohawk Institute, Canada’s Longest Run Residential School (University of Calgary, 2025)–Thomas Peace will discuss the history of settler conquest and schooling in the Maritime Peninsula. Specifically, […]
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Margaret Wickens Pearce is a cartographer foregrounding Indigenous understandings of land and place in maps that visualize Native Peoples’ knowledge, history, and stories. She has worked extensively with UMaine’s Canadian-American Center. The MacArthur Fellowship is a $800,000, no-strings-attached grant for individuals who have shown exceptional creativity in their work and the promise to do more. Pearce’s […]
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Stephen J. Hornsby, Professor of Geography and Canadian Studies and former director of the Canadian-American Center, received the Governor General’s International Award for Canadian Studies from the International Council for Canadian Studies at a ceremony at York University, Toronto, on 26 June 2025. The award is given biennially to an international scholar who has made […]
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