Nadine Fabbi, Student Profile

Nadine C. Fabbi is currently enrolled in the EdD program in EDST as part of the 2009 Cohort, and works as the Associate Director of the Canadian Studies Center at the University of Washington in Seattle. For her doctorate she is researching Canadian Inuit political mobilization in the Arctic region—both geopolitical self-determination and emerging strategies in educational policy. In 2010 she was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from University of the Arctic and the Government of Canada for her proposal, “Arctic Educational Policies and their Impact on Canada’s Leadership Role in the Circumpolar World.” In 2007 Nadine utilized a Government of Canada Faculty Research Grant, “Inuit Homelands in Canada” to design the first Task Force on the Arctic. In 2009 she was awarded a Program Enhancement Grant to take 13 University of Washington students to Ottawa as part of the first Task Force on Arctic Sovereignty co-taught with Professor Gallucci. Nadine has travelled to Alaska, the Yukon, Greenland, Iceland and Siberia and has taught two summer programs on Inuit homelands for the University of Alberta. In 2008 she was awarded a Certificate of Merit by the International Council for Canadian Studies in recognition of her contributions to Canadian Studies. Read more about Nadine and her work at the Canadian Studies Center: http://staff.washington.edu/nfabbi/index.shtml.