Speaker: Dr. Ross Burkhart, BCFR Vice President and Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
Topic: U.S.-Canada Relations: At the Brink?
Bio: Dr. Ross Burkhart has taught courses on international relations, comparative politics, and research methods at Boise State since 1997. He has taught a Canadian Politics course at Boise State regularly since 2004, and has given talks on Canadian politics at the University of Alberta, University of Arkansas, Gonzaga University, and the Council of State Governments West conferences in Big Sky, Montana, and Boise. His scholarship includes articles and book chapters on Canadian politics and policy in a half-dozen academic journals and edited volumes.
Dr. Burkhart was also the long-time executive director of the Pacific Northwest Canadian Studies Consortium, consisting of two dozen regional academic institutions, governments, IGOs, and the Consul General of Canada in Seattle, all working together to promote the study of Canada.
He has been interviewed by media outlets on Canadian politics and economics, including Boise State Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, HuffPost, the Idaho Statesman, KTVB, and PolitiFact.
Dr. Burkhart has traveled numerous times to Canada and has visited among other places the Icefields Parkway in the Canadian Rockies and the Fort McMurray Oil Sands operation. He has experienced a minus 20-degree American Thanksgiving cold snap in Edmonton and a five-inch summer rainstorm on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Dr. Burkhart’s earliest memories of Canadians involved growing up along the New York State Thruway and watching many cars with Québec license plates whizzing past his.
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