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Colleagues from the University of Maine &#8211;&nbsp;Drs.&nbsp;<strong>Anne Knowles, Mark McLaughlin, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Rondeau, Emma Schroeder, Stefano Tijerina&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Daniel Troup<\/strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;were present to see&nbsp;Professor&nbsp;Hornsby receive the award.<br>&nbsp;<br>Originally from southern England, Stephen Hornsby received his M.A. from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He began his Canadian Studies career at the Centre of Canadian Studies at the University of Edinburgh in 1984, and then joined the University of Maine in 1987. For twenty-seven years, he served as director of the Canadian-American Center. He has published and co-edited several prize-winning books, including&nbsp;<em>Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of the Atlantic Neptune<\/em>&nbsp;(2011), which received the Pierre Savard Award from the International Council for Canadian Studies. His latest book,&nbsp;<em>Cod Coasts: Cultural Landscapes of the Cod Fishery from Cape Cod to Labrador<\/em>, is in press.<br><br>The Donner Medal in Canadian Studies is presented biennially by The Association for Canadian Studies in the United States (ACSUS) for distinguished achievement, scholarship and program innovation in the area of Canadian Studies in the United States. 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