Canadian Studies

The Canadian Studies program promotes courses, and organizes speakers, colloquia, film festivals, and other activities, to bring Canada to life at Princeton. We also offer funding for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty who are conducting research in or about Canada, and we encourage departments to nominate outstanding senior theses for the annual Challener Senior Thesis Prize.

Established in 2000 in honor of Professor Richard D. Challener, Princeton Class of 1944.  The Challener Prize is awarded by the Faculty Committee on Canadian Studies to an undergraduate senior in any department or program who shall have sumitted a senior thesis of outstanding quality on a topic having to do with Canada.

The Canadian Studies Committee at Princeton University invites applications for the Pathy Visiting Professorship. Applicants must have a full-time position in a Canadian University and at the time of the appointment be on paid sabbatical leave from that institution. There is no restriction as to academic discipline, although the recipient’s research of scholarship must relate to a topic of relevance to the culture, economy, history, politics or society of Canada. The Pathy Visiting Professor is expected to teach one undergraduate course during the visiting year.  The course will be offered under the auspices of the Department or Program at Princeton that most closely corresponds to the recipient’s academic discipline, subject to the approval of the host department and the Dean of the Faculty.  In addition, the recipient is expected to participate actively in Princeton’s Program in Canadian Studies during his or her time on campus. The salary provided will depend upon the recipient’s rank, salary, and sabbatical compensation at the home university, but is expected to be up to $20,000 (U.S.). This fellowship does not include benefits or housing. Applicants should apply electronically at https://jobs.princeton.edu. The deadline for applications is January 31, 2012. Princeton is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.