The Program is pleased to announce the John A. Sproul Research Fellowship in Canadian Studies. Fundraising for the Sproul Fellowship was undertaken several years ago, and was greatly assisted by a matching grant from the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. We are now able to provide a modest annual fellowship (in the range of $5000-6000 US) for a scholar with interests in Canada who wishes to spend a period of time at Berkeley. For application process see below. Our first (unofficial) Sproul Fellow, Christer Lindberg, from the University of Lund, Sweden, was with us for the month of September, 1996. On September 18 he presented a talk to our weekly bag-lunch meeting, "Indigenous Peoples in Western Democracies: The Canadian Experience." We were delighted to host Mr. Lindberg and regretted only that his stay was so short. In 1997-1998 we were pleased to welcome Alain Noël, of the Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, for an entire year. Interested in a wide range of Canadian and comparative policy issues, he was also affiliated with the School of Social Welfare and with the Institute for Governmental Studies during his residency in Berkeley. Our Sproul Research fellow for 1999-2000 is Michael K. Hawes, a political economist on sabbatical from Queen's University, who is spending the year with us as the J. William Fulbright Distinguished Professor in Canadian-American Relations. He has been deeply involved in all our activities. Guy Beauregard, a  Postdoctoral Visiting Scholar in Ethnic Studies under the auspices of the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada, was the Sproul Fellow during the 2000-2001 academic year. He participated regularly in our activities, and gave a well-attended talk on November 9, 2000. This talk, co-sponsored by the Ethnic Studies Department, was entitled "Race, Writing, and Deference: Asian Canadian and Asian American Literary Studies in Comparative Perspective." John Vardalas is the Sproul Fellow for 2001-2002. Dr. Vardalas is a historian and is currently a Visiting Scholar in the Office for the History of Science and Technology at UC Berkeley. As a Sproul Fellow, his research focuses on the role of foreign direct investment in the trans-border flows of technological competence and the role of these flows in U.S.-Canada relations. On March 7, 2002, he presented a talk entitled "Competence Formation within the Canadian Political Economy: The Computer Revolution." He also participated in the March 20th symposium "Canada-US  Relations After 9/11" hosted by the Program. During the 2003-2004 academic year Fulbrighter Elena Scali was a Visiting Scholar and Sproul Fellow with the Program. During her stay at UC Berkeley, she worked with the Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development Canada to undertake two research studies on the health of Aboriginal communities on both sides of the border. In addition, she produced a documentary photo essay on contemporary Pomo Indian ways of life in California. In the Spring term she presented a talk at our colloquium series, "Our Home and Native Lands: the Well-being of Aboriginal Communities in the United States and Canada." In the Spring 2004 semester we were pleased to also host Harry Hiller (Sociology, University of Calgary) as a Sproul Fellow.  In addition to presenting his talk, "Black Gold: Understanding Boom-time Migration to Alberta,"  to our group, Professor Hiller spent a productive semester working on several projects, including  a book, Urban Canada: Sociological Perspectives, to be published by Oxford University Press, and his ongoing major research project, the Alberta In-Migration Study. We were delighted to have both these fine scholars at Berkeley under the auspices of the Sproul Fellowship. In AY 2004-2005 we  hosted two Sproul fellows. Kathleen Kenna, a distinguished Canadian foreign correspondent, was a Visiting Scholar with Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.  In  her Sproul lecture of  September 23, 2004, she recounted her harrowing experience as the victim of a hand-grenade attack in her talk,  “Heroism in the Desert: a Canadian journalist and her American rescuers in Afghanistan .”  John Vardalas  returned as a Sproul fellow. His talk on April 20, 2005, was on "Transnational Standardization of Military Technology: Early Postwar Shaping of Canadian Trade Policy." We were delighted to have him back and look forward to future visits. George Hoberg,  from the University of British Columbia, is the Sproul Fellow for 2006-2007.  A Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management there, at Berkeley is a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management.  In  September 2006  he presented  the inaugural talk of our fall colloquium series,  "Old Growth Forest Preservation in British Columbia and Alaska: Different Approaches to Governance." For the academic year 2007-2008 The Program is hosting Visiting Scholar Peter Gossage,  from the Université de Sherbrooke, a hostorian of  Canada with particlar focus on Quebec.  In Spring 2009 we were delighted to award the Sproul fellowship to Visiting Scholar Michael Behiels of the University of Ottawa. Professor Behiels, a historian, presnts the Thomas Garden Barnes lecture on April 30, 2009, "Canada’s ‘Rights Revolution’: Populist or Elitist, 1960-1982." The Program is proud to support this fellowship in honor of John Sproul. Mr. Sproul, a retired executive with Pacific Gas Transmission, is warmly regarded throughout the Berkeley campus for his tireless efforts on behalf of the university. We feel particularly grateful for his long-standing support of the Canadian Studies Program, and for his efforts as Chair of the Canadian Studies Advisory Board and the Campaign for Canadian Studies. We're sure that our Sproul fellows will make him proud.   JOHN A. SPROUL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN CANADIAN STUDIES FOR 2009-2010 Application The Canadian Studies Program invites applications for the John A. Sproul Fellowship for academic year 2009-2010. One or more Fellows will be selected, with an award in the range of $5000 - 6000 U.S each. This is intended as supplement to other support the scholar may have. Application is open to all, but preference will be given to young scholars who have completed the Ph.D. within the last several years. The Fellow will be expected to attend Program activities and to give at least one presentation on a Canadian topic while in residence. Applicants should email the following to Dr. Rita Ross (address below)  no later than JUNE 30, 2009: A brief (approximately 2 page) letter of interest, indicating why a stay at Berkeley would be useful and what research is planned for the residency. A brief indication of how the Sproul funds will supplement other sources of support. A current CV, including email address. A letter indicating institutional affiliation and approval, if applicable. Canadian Studies Program attn: Dr. Rita Ross University of California at Berkeley 2223 Fulton St. # 2324 Berkeley CA 94720-2324 rjross@berkeley.edu Applicants will be notified of results no later than July 31, 2009. Top of page Return to UCB Canadian Studies Home Page Activities and Calendar Last updated 04/07/09:rr