Amanda Graham’s Web Page and Circumpolar Info Centre...
Circumpolar, polar and northern studies
Writing, Term Papers and Other Academic Help
- Follow this link to more academic writing help.
This takes you to a list of tip sheets developed to assist students of
a web-enhanced distance delivered offering of NOST 202 with preparing
assignments. That other page offers, for example,
- On Preparing Curriculum Units
- On Preparing Exam Essay Answers
- On Exam Short Answer Questions: Defining Terms
- More on Introductions; Large Visual Aid on Introductions
- On Referencing: A Starting Point, etc.
- Study Skills Guides and Help. A collection of help sheets and web links, including
- On Reading Historical Sources, etc.
ACUNS Ethical Principles for the Conduct of Research in the North / AUCEN Principes D'Éthique
Course-Related Materials
Lists o’ (Northern) Links
Publications and Papers
Publications
- Indexing the Canadian North: Broadening the Definition, The Northern Review No. 6 (Winter 1990): 21-37. Web document citeable as the original.
- Seats
of Learning/Centres of Conflict: Contradictory Expectations for Northern
Universities A paper presented to the Fourth International Circumpolar
Universities Cooperation Conference, University of Northern British Columbia,
24-26 February, 1995. Published in the conference proceedings.
- Reflections
on Contemporary Northern Canadian History A paper published in Essays
on Canadian Writing #59, 1996.
- Research in the North American North: Action and reaction (pdf) by Fae L. Korsmo and Amanda Graham. A paper published in Arctic, Vol. 55, No. 4, (December, 2002): 319-328. Link to pdf online at Arctic Institute of North America Arctic contents.
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Unpublished works
- The
University that Wasn't: The University of Canada North, 1970-1984, complete
thesis in pdf file (523 KB, 155 pages).
- The
University of Canada North, 1970-1985 This home page contains links to
the complete text of my Masters thesis, "The University that Wasn't:
The University of Canada North, 1970-1985" same as the link above but with download options. In addition, there are links
to some other papers that are relevant today, given contemporary discussions
of the University of the Arctic.
- Territorial
Society, 1965-1970 This is the first chapter of my 1994 Lakehead
University MA Thesis, "The University That Wasn't: The University of
Canada North, 1970-1985." While it was intended to establish the context
of the 1970s attempt to establish a university in the Canadian North,
it also serves as a useful overview summary of the history and development
of the Canadian northern territory to the late 1960s.
- Co-Managing
Heritage in Post-Final Agreement Yukon: Lessons for Us All? A paper
prepared for a 1997 course on land claims and self-government in the
Yukon.
- Excerpt from a paper, Some Trends in Northern Studies
Undergraduate Course Offerings at Canadian Universities, 1972-1997. This
excerpt from an unfinished study dating from the mid-1990s focusses on the history of Northern Studies in Canada.
- Spawning
Run and Gold Rush: Is a Multicultural History of the Yukon Within Our
Grasp? A paper presented to the Alaska Anthropological Association
Conference, Whitehorse, Yukon, 11 April 1997.
- History
and Remembrance: Whose History Makes the Books? Text of a public
lecture given in the Yukon Historical and Museums Association/MacBride
Museum Heritage Lecture Series, 1993.
Bits and Pieces: Circumpolar history, research data, newspaper exerpts
- Circumpolar History Timetables (pdf files) (begun 2000 and irregularly updated since then; items since 2004 at Circumpolar Musings)
- Research tesults: Undergraduate Northern Studies Courses (1997). A collection of descriptions of northern studies courses, now seriously outdated.
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- Selected newspaper clippings from the Dawson Daily News, 1899 and 1912
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Photographs
From The Northern Review
