Albert B. Corey Prize
Next Award Year: 2024
The submission deadline has passed. Awardees are announced in the fall, and the next contest will begin in fall 2023.
The Albert B. Corey Prize, awarded for the first time in 1967, is sponsored jointly by the American Historical Association and the Canadian Historical Association. This biennial prize is awarded in even numbered years for the best book on Canadian-American relations or on the history of both countries. The prize was approved in 1963 by the Councils of both Associations in honor of Albert B. Corey (1898–1963), one-time chair of the American section of the AHA-CHA Joint Committee, who first proposed such an award to encourage the study of Canadian-US relations. The awarding of the prize was formally ratified in 1966, after funding for the prize was secured.
The current prize amount is $1,000. See the list of past recipients.
The 2024 prize is administered by the Canadian Historical Association. Complete submission information can be found on the CHA website.
For questions, please contact the Prize Administrator.
2020 Corey Prize
Jamie Benidickson, University of Ottawa
Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press)
Jamie Benidickson’s intricate and layered analysis of resource development and environmental governance in the Lake of the Woods watershed moves gracefully across the different jurisdictional boundaries that cross-cut this Canadian-American region. This thoroughly researched book underscores the environmental, legal, and human dimensions of the efforts to develop and regulate the land and water in Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota and brings to life the contests among stakeholders at the local, regional, and national levels over environmental decision-making.