Name:

Catherine Lessard

Award:

Canadian-American Center Fellowship

Comments:

The topic of her graduate thesis will be the lobster industry in Canada and New England . More precisely, it is still at a tentative state, but it should be on the possibility of a joint marketing for the two countries lobster industries. Catherine is from Sherbrooke , Québec , Canada .

Name:

Charles A. Deshaies

Degree:

PhD in History

Award:

Foreign Language and Area Studies Award

Year Received:

2008-2009

Summer 2008

Comments:

The topic of his dissertation will examine the inability of democratic socialism to break through in the province of Quebec , from the period of 1933 - 1974. Yet, while the parties of democratic socialism - The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and New Democratic Party (NDP) were not viable political entities in the province, Quebec society became the most progressive and social democratic in all of Canada . Part of my dissertation will examine if there was a connection between the CCF/NDP and the progressive politics of Quiet Revolution Quebec.

Charles is a third year PhD student. Currently, he resides in Montreal , Quebec for research purposes. Charles recently presented his first paper, "Mirage or Missed Opportunity: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation ( CCF ) and the 1943 Cartier By-Election", at the Underhill Graduate Colloquium at Carleton University in Ottawa . In addition to my research work, he is also gaining valuable teaching experience this year at SUNY Plattsburgh. There, he teaches two sections of "Introduction to Canada " courses.

Name:

Edward Martin

Degree:

PhD History

Award:

Canadian-American Center Fellowship

Year Received:

2008-2009

Comments:

Dissertation. Edward is writing a dissertation about privateers who use the authority of their commissions to commit illegal acts such as piracy, smuggling and attacks on vessels licensed to trade with their respective government. This dissertation will focus on the practice of privateering in the Northeastern Borderlands, the area that comprises Maine , Nova Scotia and New Brunswick .

Presentations: Edward presented Thus our Coast is Defended Simeon Perkins, Liverpool , Nova Scotia and Their Response to America Privateers at the June 2008 Conference of the North Atlantic Society for Oceanic History in Pensicola , FL and the 2008 Alice Stewart Lecture Series in November.

Name:

Eric DesRoberts

Degree:

Resource and Environmental Economics

Award:

Foreign Language and Area Studies Award

Year Received:

2008-2009

Comments:

Eric is working towards an M.S. in Resource and Environmental Economics. His thesis topic is looking at measuring the effectiveness if sustainability standards and feedback effects from consumer reactions. In this research there will be emphasis on Canadian packaging programs.

Eric graduated from Hartwick College in Oneonta New York in 2008 with a B.A. in Economics. He is originally from Maine .

Name:

Ewan Good

Degree:

French MA

Award:

Foreign Language and Area Studies Award

Year Received:

2008-2009

Comments:

Ewan has a BA, Joint Honors, in French and German from The University of Nottingham (June 1983) and a PGCE (Post grad cert ed) from Bristol University (June 1985), both in the UK .  He is currently working on his MA at UMO, the topic of his thesis will be recurring themes  or stylistic means in 4 of Anne Hébert's novels.

Name:

Micah Pawling

Degree:

History MA

Award:

Canadian-American Center Fellowship

Year Received:

2008-2009

Comments:

Publication:

Micah Pawling, and John Bear Mitchell, “Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980,” in Treaties with American Indians: An Encyclopedia of rights, Conflicts, and Sovereignty, edited by Donald L. Fixico, Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, vol. 3, 2008, pp 716-718

Name:

Robert L. Gee

Degree:

History PhD

Award:

New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Fellowship

Year Received:

2008-2009

Comments:

Dissertation topic:

International Natural Resource Management in the Late Nineteenth Century North Atlantic Fisheries

· Alice Stewart Lecture Series. Presented “ North Atlantic Dragnet: Failed Treaties, Fishery Protection, and Vessel Seizures in Atlantic Canada , 1870-1890.” (October 2008).

· NEHA ( New England Historical Association) Conference in Portland , Maine . Presented, “Ecological Protectionism: Resource Regulation and Treaty Law in the Late Nineteenth Century North Atlantic Fisheries.” (April 2009).

Name:

Scott Hamilton

Degree:

Marine Biology MA

Award:

New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Fellowship

Year Received

2008-2009

Comments:

Scott received his BA from Goucher College in Baltimore MD. He is currently working towards his Masters at the University of Maine in the School of Marine Science. Scott’s primary research deals with a genetic mutation found in the soft-shell clam Mya Arenaria which causes resistance to the sodium channel blocking saxitoxins produced by red tide algae along the northeast Atlantic coast and its effect on the clam's natural population dynamics. 

Name:

Stefano Tijerina

Degree:

History PhD

Award:

Canadian-American Center Fellowship

Year Received

2008-2009

Comments:

Graduate thesis topic is Hemispheric History, particularly the history of international aid and the relationship between Canada and Latin America via the Canadian-Colombian relations case study.

He has presented papers at the Seminario Interuniversitario de Estudios Canadienses en America Latina (Spring 2008), at the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Summer 2008), and at the University of Maine-University of New Brunswick History Conference (2007-2008).

Stefano obtained his B.A. at Clark University in Comparative Politics, a Masters in International Relations from Universidad de los Andes ( Bogota , Colombia ), and a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Maine .

Name:

Tyler W. McPhee

Degree:

New Media

Award:

Foreign Language and Area Studies Award

Year Received

Summer 2008

Comments:

Tyler received a BA in Philosophy and New Media from the University of Maine in 2005. He continued my graduate education at UMaine by enrolling in the Master of Liberal Studies program, where my research focused on art history, philosophy and studio art and will be graduating in May of 2009. My graduate thesis project entitled "In Search of..." is a body of artworks that investigate the topics of myth, identity and place. I am currently enrolled as a first year Master of Fine Arts student in sculpture Syracuse University .

With his award Tyler studed French at the University of Montreal, QC, Canada in summer 2008.