Two new graduate fellows; immigration postdoc opportunity

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A newsletter from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area.

Canadian Studies Announcements

In This Issue:

News from Berkeley

• Hildebrand Fellow Andrew Zhao explores legacy of residential schools on local voting patterns

• Hildebrand Fellow Lydia Mathews probes British Columbia’s public health campaign against prostitution

Academic Opportunities

• Postdoctoral Position in Migration Studies, IRI (Concordia University)

NEWS FROM BERKELEY

Hildebrand Fellow Andrew Zhao Explores Legacy of Residential Schools on Local Voting Patterns

The Canadian Studies Program is pleased to announce that returning graduate fellow Andrew Zhao has received an Edward E. Hildebrand Research Fellowship for Summer 2025.

Andrew is a PhD student in the Department of Political Science, studying how identity and questions of who we are intersect with politics.

Andrew’s Hildebrand Fellowship will support a project exploring the long-term political effects of Canada’s Indian residential school system. The schools left a well-documented legacy of physical and psychological harm to survivors and their kin. But another legacy remains under-explored: how did residential schools affect the politics of their surrounding communities? Andrew’s current project focuses on this political legacy. Specifically, it investigates whether residential schools embedded anti-Indigenous beliefs in nearby communities that persist to this day. Fellowship funds will support visits to several Canadian archives that contain school records and testimony, as well as French-language interpretation of school administrators’ personal papers.

Andrew holds a BA in political science and philosophy from the University of Toronto, where he received the Suzanne and Edwin Goodman Prize as the top graduating student specializing in political science. Before coming to Berkeley, he worked for several years in public opinion research.

Hildebrand Fellow Lydia Mathews Probes British Columbia’s Public Health Campaign Against Prostitution

Previous Hildebrand recipient Lydia Matthews has also received a Summer 2025 Fellowship to continue exploring the history of public health and social belonging in Canada.

Lydia is a PhD candidate in the Department of History. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, public health, and immigration at the turn of the 20th century. She is particularly interested in public health campaigns against prostitution and how such campaigns, in conjunction with various hygiene reform projects, helped to delineate a transnational understanding of social citizenship.

Lydia’s research will explore connections between the Canadian National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (CNCCVD) and American attempts to eliminate the spread of sexually transmitted diseases during World War I. Her research will center on local anti-prostitution efforts and their enforcement in British Columbia at both the municipal and provincial level. The Hildebrand Fellowship will support her travel to Ottawa to conduct archival research at the Library and Archives Canada, as well as to the Vancouver City Archives and Vancouver Police Museum & Archives.

Lydia holds a bachelor’s degree in English and history from Vassar College and master’s degrees in women’s and gender studies and history from Brandeis University.

ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

Postdoctoral Position in Migration Studies, IRI (Concordia University)

Application deadline: August 1, 2025

The Immigration Research Initiative, based in the Department of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, is pleased to announce a two-year postdoctoral position. The postdoctoral researcher will work under the supervision of Dr. Antoine Bilodeau, contributing to various projects within the Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF) program, Migrant Integration in the Mid-21st Century: Bridging Divides. Researchers specializing in migration studies and/or behavioural studies (in any social science discipline) with experience in advanced quantitative research are invited to apply. Applicants may start from September 2025 (negotiable).

This position requires bilingualism (French and English) as well as advanced skills in quantitative analysis. Please click here for more information. For questions regarding this position, please contact Ludmilla Moindrot-Zilliox at iri@concordia.ca.

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Canada Day is forever Memorial Day in Newfoundland

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An item from the Legion Magazine.
Front Lines
Front Lines

The National War Memorial on July 1, 2025, 109 years after the slaughter at Beaumont-Hamel. [Stephen J. Thorne]

Canada Day is forever Memorial Day in Newfoundland

STORY BY STEPHEN J. THORNE

On July 1, 1916, nearly 800 members of the Newfoundland Regiment went over the top at Beaumont-Hamel in northern France. A day later, just 68 answered roll call.

It was 9:15 a.m. on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, one of the bloodiest battles of a bloody war, and two waves of Allied troops had gone before them.

The lead elements were all but wiped out. Still, the Newfoundlanders, citizens of what was then the hardscrabble Dominion of Newfoundland, were ordered on. And, so, on they went.

“There were no waverers, no stragglers, not a man looked back,” said Major-General Beauvoir de Lisle, commander of the 29th British Division, “it was a magnificent display of trained and disciplined valour, and its assault only failed of success because dead men can advance no further.”

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The Briefing
The Briefing

Canadian astronaught Chris Hadfield reads the new children’s book by the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research. [CIMVHR]

New children’s books shines light on Canadian military experience

STORY BY ALEX BOWERS

Representation matters to the Canadian Institute for Military and Veteran Health Research (CIMVHR). That’s why the organization has published a new children’s book series dedicated to families of those they have long supported and cared for.

Adapted from Australian versions created by Marg Rogers, both the originals and their Canadian counterparts address themes associated with military culture, from deployment to relocation to operational stress injuries and more, providing young readers with an age-appropriate understanding of service and its meaning.

The four current storybooks, with four more on the way, pull inspiration from uniquely Canadian aspects of the language, its cultural characters, animals and place settings, which ensures a feeling of inclusively for all readers. Plus, each tale is grounded in the most recent scientific evidence, presenting parents with additional resources for tackling challenging topics with their kids.

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Recapping an exciting Canada Day week! 🇨🇦

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A newsletter from a fellow Canadian organization in the Bay Area (and we thank them for the plug).

Canadian Studies Announcements
Dear friends – greetings from Canadian Studies! On behalf of the Program, we would like to wish you a very happy belated Canada Day. We hope that you were all able to celebrate your Canadian pride and enjoy the wonderful weather!

You may have been wondering where we’ve been. The last two weeks have been a busy time for the Program. Most importantly, as of July 1, Professor Hidetaka Hirota has assumed sole leadership of Canadian Studies after the official retirement of longtime co-director, Professor Emeritus Richard A. Rhodes. Please join us in congratulating Professor Hirota and thanking Professor Rhodes for his many years of service.

We’ve also been involved with a lot of events recently, across both the Bay Area and Canada! These events help us build the connections that strengthen our network of friends across North America, at a time when cross-border, person-to-person relationships are more important than ever. In this newsletter, we’re excited to share with you some of the many goings-on during these last packed weeks!

Canadian Studies Goes to Canada
Outgoing director Professor Richard A. Rhodes and program coordinator Tomás Lane conducted a whistle-stop tour of Canada that allowed them to celebrate Canada Day in the country! It was the first official visit by Program staff to Canada since 2019. We started in Toronto, where we were invited to represent the Program at an alumni and student mixer hosted by the Berkeley Club of Canada. There, we caught up with several friends, including Hildebrand Fellow Allison Evans, who is investigating the increasing prevalence of homelessness in semi-rural Ontario, and board member Rosann Greenspan. We were also pleased to make the acquaintance of alumni of all ages!

Afterwards, Professor Rhodes travelled to Quebec City to confer with Professor Luc Baronian, a linguist at the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. The two are working on a book on varieties of North American French, based on research first presented at a Canadian Studies conference. Meanwhile, Tomás took a detour to Montreal to meet board member Kathryn Exon Smith and check in with Hildebrand Fellow Jennifer Kaplan, who is researching new forms of gender-neutral French.

Canada Day Flag Raising at San Francisco City Hall
Back in California, Canadian Studies was honored to be asked to participate in the official raising of the Canadian flag over San Francisco City Hall to celebrate Canada Day and the Bay Area’s Canadian community. The ceremony was led by SF mayor Daniel Lurie and Consul General Rana Sarkar. Canadian Studies advisory board chair Griselda Zhou and board member Rhonda Rubinstein represented the Program; other friends in attendance included consulate representatives Marie Alnwick and Kate Walter, Digital Moose Lounge chair Sarah Price, and Michael Barbour, president of Royal Canadian Legion US Branch #25.

Sneak Peak of the San Francisco Premiere of Kim’s Convenience

Finally, the Program would like to extend our warm thanks to the Consulate General of Canada for inviting the Canadian Studies team to a sneak peek of the first-ever San Francisco production of Kim’s Convenience, the original play behind the hit CBC sitcom. It was such a pleasure to celebrate this iconic show with its creator, the brilliant Ins Choi (who will play Appa in the SF production).

The reception was jointly hosted by American Conservatory Theater (ACT) and the consulates of Canada and South Korea. Canadian Studies board member Jennifer Wong represented the Program, joined by Marie Alnwick and Kate Walter from the Consulate and Sarah Price from the DML.

Kim’s Convenience opens at the ACT Toni Rembe Theater on September 18. Stay tuned for more information!

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