"A program of research and teaching which can have a marked effect on
deepening and widening the understanding between
the United States and Canada."
—From a 1966 letter signed by Neil Hosler McElroy and David Rockefeller

Affiliate Spotlight

Ione Barrows

Ione Barrows

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University.

Research interests: Nineteenth-century North American history; protest movements; migration; political coalitions; anticolonialism; currency policy; social democracy; and cultural history.

Anna Christensen

Anna Christensen

Graduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. PhD Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard University.

Research interests: Natural history; North American colonialism; deep time; extinction; environmental history; and the history of museums.

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Upcoming Events

2024 Apr 04

Special Event

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums

Harvard University Native American Program Annual Lecture

Featuring actress, Paulina Alexis

Join the Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) for a conversation with Paulina Alexis. Alexis is an actress, artist, and proud member of the Stoney tribe of the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation in central Alberta, Canada, where she was raised. She is best known for her role as Willie Jack in the series Reservation Dogs.

Free admission, but seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on 480 Broadway. Doors will open at 5:30pm, programming begins at 6:00pm.

This event will be livestreamed. To tune in, click on this link at 6:00pm EST on Thursday, April 4. A recording of the livestream will be available on this page after the event.

This event is made possible with support from The Clara E. and John H. Ware Jr. Foundation; ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA); The Weatherhead Canada Program; and the Harvard Art Museums.

Contact: hunap@harvard.edu

Funding Opportunities

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The Canada Program at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs hosts two William Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellowships. The fellowships are two-year positions.

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The Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs awards dissertation fellowships to support Harvard graduate students who focus at least half of their dissertation topics on Canada.

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The Canada Program invites proposals from Harvard faculty, departments, and schools across the University, for research funding on a Canadian topic,

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The Canada Program at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs will award undergraduate thesis research grants of up to $5,000 each for field research in Canada.

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