Nora Faires receives Albert B. Corey Prize

At the 2007 American Historical Association (AHA) annual meeting in Atlanta, Nora Faires received the Albert B. Corey Prize for her co-authored book, Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press and University of Calgary Press in 2005.

The Corey Prize is jointly sponsored by the AHA and the Canadian Historical Association and is awarded biennially to the best book dealing with the history of Canadian-American relations or the history of both countries. The citation for the award reads:

Among a strong field of entries, Permeable Border stood out as a particularly successful effort to push forward understanding of Canadian-American borderlands via emerging ideas of transnationalism. Taking a broad sweep of time, and balancing new research with critical historiographical analysis, the border is examined as a “human creation . . . typically invisible, geographically illogical, militarily indefensible, and emotionally inescapable”—a border that paradoxically strengthens and disappears simultaneously amidst competing forces of nationalism and globalization.