Faires Awarded Fulbright to Research in Canada
Dr. Nora Faires, professor of American history and gender and women's studies at Western Michigan University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Distinguished Chair a six-month residency at York University in Toronto to study clubs founded by American women living abroad. Faires will examine the relationship of gender, migration, American national identity and internationalism. She will teach a graduate seminar on 20th century gender and migration history, consult with other scholars and research the American Women's Club of Toronto. This is the second Fulbright for Faires. She was a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in North American Studies at the University of Calgary.
Faires is co-author of two award-winning books. "Jewish Life in the Industrial Promised Land, 1855-2005" received a 2006 State of Michigan award from the Historical Society of Michigan and “Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990” received the 2006 Albert B. Corey Prize, awarded jointly by the American Historical Association and Canadian Historical Association for the best book on Canada. She chairs Western Michigan University’s Canadian Studies initiative.