Associate Professor Mary Lynn Young, and co-author Professor David Pritchard, have won the Rufus Z. Smith Award for the best article published in the American Review of Canadian Studies in 2006.
The article, “Cross-Border Crime Stories: American Media, Canadian Law, and Murder in the Internet Age,” appeared in the autumn issue.
Professor Pritchard is from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
The Award is presented to the individual (or individuals) who is deemed to have written the best article in ARCS during the two years prior to the biennial conference at which it is presented. The prize is named after Rufus Z. Smith, a long-time secretary-treasurer of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States.