2012-2013 CAN-AM Graduate Awards Announced

May 17th, 2012 11:26 AM

The Canadian-American Center would like to announce the following graduate students who have been awarded a graduate award for the 2012-2013 academic year:

New England/Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Fellowships

  • Ann Morrisette (History, Ph.D.)
  • Michael Perry (History, Ph.D.)

Canadian-American Center Fellowships

  • Patrick Callaway (History, Ph.D.)
  • Andrew Reiser (History, Ph.D.)
  • Greg Rogers (History Ph.D.)

Foreign Language and Area Studies Awards

  • Amanda Black (History, M.A.)
  • Sarah Domarecki (Canadian Literature, I.Ph.D.)
  • Teresa Hess (French, M.A.)
  • Gabriel Levesque (History, Ph.D.)
  • Erica Quin-Easter (History, Ph.D.)
  • Rebecca White (History, Ph.D.)

The Canadian-American Center would like to congratulate all graduate award recipients!

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Five New Canadian-Content Courses

May 15th, 2012 2:31 PM
• Four course development grants yield five new Canadian-content courses With funds from the Canadian-American Center’s US Department of Education Title VI grant, the Center initiated a Canadian Studies Course Development competition.  This provided $16,000 (four grants of $4,000) to UMaine faculty to develop a new course on Canada or Canadian-American relations or to modify an existing course to include at least 25% Canadian content.  Priority was given to proposals made by faculty who do not at present teach on Canada or Canadian-American relations. Awards were made to:
(i)               Elizabeth DePoy, (School of Social Work) with Stephen Gilson (Inter-disciplinary Disability Studies) for DIS 450 and DIS 530: Disability Policy: Comparative Canadian and American Approaches.  “We developed and included Canadian policy/legislation content in 2 course, DIS 530 a graduate course “Disability Policy;” and DIS 450 an undergraduate course “Disability as Diversity II.  We developed specific course sessions/lectures and readings related to the examination of US and Canadian Disability policy and developed assignments directly related to specific Canadian policy/legislation.”
(ii)              Carol Toner (Maine Studies Program) with Betsy Beattie (Canadian Studies and Reference Librarian) for MES 540: Maine and the Borderlands: An Integrative Approach to Maine, Quebec and the Maritime Provinces.  “April 11, 2012 the Graduate School curriculum committee enthusiastically approved the new course that Betsy and I designed, MES 540, Maine and the Northeast Borderlands: An Integrative Approach to Maine, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces. We will offer the course Spring 2013 and every other spring after that. We will cross-list with MES498, which is the Maine Studies upper level topics course, so that upper level undergraduates can also take the course, and with CAN 401.”
(iii)             Robert Lilieholm (School of Forest Resources) for FTY345/FTY 617: Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship.  “The Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship is a highly selective 5.5 week program sponsored by the Quebec Labrador foundation, Schoodic Education and Research Center, the Frenchman Bay conservancy and several universities including the University of Maine and Unity College.  The goal of the internship is to expose international college undergraduate and graduate level students in academic work and hands on instruction in landscape conservation with the Acadia Region, which spans the US-Canadian border from the Penobscot River to southwestern New Brunswick.  The Institute was offered summer 2011 and will be offered summer 2012 as FTY345/FTY 617: Acadian Internship in Regional Conservation and Stewardship”
(iv)             Liam Riordan (History Department) for modification to HTY 398: Creation of the Atlantic World, 1450-1888”.  Professor Riordan, who is on sabbatical Spring 2012, will work on this course in Fall 2012.

 

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Director Stephen Hornsby receives award

May 8th, 2012 10:05 AM

Director Stephen J. Hornsby has been awarded the John Lyman Book Award for Naval and Maritime Science and Technology from the North American Society for Oceanic History for his recent book  Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune.

Stephen J. Hornsby’s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in April 2011.  The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of The Atlantic Neptune, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas.  Professor Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine and Director of the History of Cartography project, comments:  “Surveyors of Empire is an outstanding work of scholarship, well grounded in the archive, a project that provides a telling parable of imperial power.  Accessible and understated, it should be of interest to a wide array of readers.”  The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and historical images.

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New Canada Unit compiled for Massachusetts Grade 4 teachers

April 12th, 2012 2:50 PM

Betsy Arntzen, director of the Canadian-American Center’s Office of K-12 Canadian Studies outreach, has compiled a comprehensive Canada Unit for Massachusetts Grade 4 teachers, covering all the elements in the MA Frameworks. Based on high-level work created by teachers who completed previous professional development programming offered by the Canadian-American Center, she created a best-practices compilation for teachers to use in a 3-week unit expandable to 3-month unit.

Ms. Arntzen presented the unit at an afterschool workshop hosted by EDCO Collaborative in Waltham, MA, April 2, 2012.  Participants, who were Grade 4 teachers from six towns, participated by engaging in abbreviated versions of the lessons.  They received the complete unit on a CD in addition to other handouts which included maps of Canada.

www.umaine.edu/teachingcanada

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East-West Highway topic of conference breakfast session, April 24th

April 12th, 2012 2:25 PM

Peter Vigue, Chairman of Cianbro, will open the second day of the international conference Cross-Border Economic Integration in the Northeast: Current Status, Future Prospects with a presentation of current news and information relating to Maine’s proposed $2 billion East-West highway transportation corridor, Tuesday, April 24th.

For more information about the conference see www.umaine.edu/canam/crossborderconference

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Peter Morici, expert on international economics and policy offers keynote, April 23rd

April 2nd, 2012 2:10 PM

Peter Morici, Professor of International Business at the University of Maryland, is a recognized expert on economic policy and international economics.  He will deliver the plenary keynote address at the international conference Cross-Border Economic Integration in the Northeast: Current Status, Future Prospects, Monday April 23rd at Wells Conference Center.

Dr. Morici, former director of the Canadian-American Center, is author of 18 books and is interviewed frequently on CNN, CBS, BBC and other broadcast networks around the world.

For more information about this conference, see: www.umaine.edu/canam/crossborderconference

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Tour of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, April 24

March 29th, 2012 2:05 PM

The Canadian-American Center and the Maine International Trade Center is proud to announce a new event has been added to the program of the upcoming Cross-Border Economic Conference!  On April 24th, 2012 at 2:30 PM, All registered conference participants will have the option of taking a tour of the Advanced Structures and Composites Center on the campus of the University of Maine!

Also, added to the program, Peter Vigue of Cianbro will be giving a presentation on the East/West Highway during the 8:00 A.M. Breakfast on April 24th.

For more details on the conference and its program, please click the link below:

www.umaine.edu/canam/crossborderconference

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Center’s director presents research at UBC

March 19th, 2012 12:35 PM

Professor of Geography and Canadian Studies and director of the Canadian-American Center Stephen Hornsby presented a lecture in the University of British Columbia’s Green College as part of their Thematic Lecture Series Transforming Canada: Histories of Environmental Change.

Professor Hornsby, who received his PhD from the University of British Columbia, presented a lecture titled “Fish and Fur and the Nature of Canada”.  His lecture is one of UBC’s Green College interdisciplinary Series which addresses the themes of human activities and Canadian nature, nature’s influence on the nature of Canada, and ideas and nature in Canada.  The series presents lectures with the goal of preparing students for sensible engagement with the environmental challenges facing Canadian society in the 21st century.

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Canadian-American Center Director Hornsby receives Publication of the Year award

March 13th, 2012 10:51 AM

Director Stephen J. Hornsby has been awarded the Publication of the Year Award by the Board of Governors of the Prince Edward Island Museum and Heritage Foundation for his recent book Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune.

Stephen J. Hornsby’s Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in April 2011.  The book examines British surveying and mapping of northeastern North America in the 1760s and early 1770s, and the publication of The Atlantic Neptune, a monumental four-volume nautical atlas.  Professor Matthew Edney, University of Southern Maine and Director of the History of Cartography project, comments:  “Surveyors of Empire is an outstanding work of scholarship, well grounded in the archive, a project that provides a telling parable of imperial power.  Accessible and understated, it should be of interest to a wide array of readers.”  The book is lavishly illustrated with maps and historical images.

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The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era

February 29th, 2012 3:39 PM

The Loyal Atlantic: Remaking the British Atlantic in the Revolutionary Era

Edited by: Jerry Bannister & Liam Riordan

Adding to a dynamic new wave of scholarship in Atlantic history, The Loyal Atlantic offers fresh interpretations of the key role played by Loyalism in shaping the early modern British Empire. This cohesive collection investigates how Loyalism and the empire were mutually constituted and reconstituted from the eighteenth century onward. Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic brings Loyalism into a genuinely international focus.

Through cutting-edge archival research, The Loyal Atlantic contextualizes Loyalism within the larger history of the British Empire. It also details how, far from being a passive allegiance, Loyalism changed in unexpected and fascinating ways — especially in times of crisis. Most importantly, The Loyal Atlantic demonstrates that neither the conquest of Canada nor the American Revolution can be properly understood without assessing the meanings of Loyalism in the wider Atlantic world.

Jerry Bannister is an associate professor in the Department of History at Dalhousie University.

Liam Riordan is an associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Maine.

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