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Lee Maracle Awarded the 2017 Bonham Centre Award

The Bonham Centre Awards were established in 2008 to recognize an individual or group that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of and education about public recognition of sexual diversity. To learn more about the Bonham Centre Awards and its past recipients click here. This year, the Awards will... more

Transcultural Literacies wins the Literacy Research Association's Edward B. Fry Book Award!

We are thrilled to announce that Transcultural Literacies has been selected as the winner of the Literary Research Association Edward B. Fry Book Award in 2021! The Edward B. Fry Book Award was established in in 1995 by it's namesake for the purpose of recognizing Literacy Research Association members authoring boo... more

Indigenous Food Systems is a Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winner!

Indigenous Food Systems, edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla, has been recognized by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards as an outstanding work in the category of Food Heritage. As a 2020 winner for Canada, Indigenous Food Systems will go on to compete for Best in World (2021) in the Food Heritage category... more

Lifelong Learning as Critical Action wins the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education

André P. Grace’s Lifelong Learning as Critical Action has been selected as the 2014 recipient of the Cyril O. Houle Award for Outstanding Literature in Adult Education, an award given annually by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education. Founded in 1981, the award was established to honour the sc... more

On Reflection wins the 2014 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology

Ellen Rose’s On Reflection has been awarded the 2014 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology. Named for the Canadian media studies and communications theorist, the Marshall McLuhan Award was established in 2000 and honours any topic related to media ecology. Past recipients include... more

Immigration and Canada: Global and Transnational Perspectives wins the 2014 Nathan Keyfitz Book Prize

Alan B. Simmons’s Immigration and Canada: Global and Transnational Perspectives received the Nathan Keyfitz Book Prize, a biannual prize awarded by the Canadian Population Society. The prize is awarded to a scholar who has published a book on a topic of concern to Canadian demography and population studies. Publishe... more

Muslim Women Speak: A Tapestry of Lives and Dreams, winner of the 2011 Outstanding Scholarship Prize

In 2011, Amani Hamdan’s Muslim Women Speak: A Tapestry of Lives and Dreams received the Outstanding Scholarship Prize, awarded by the Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes, formerly known as the Canadian Women's Studies Association. Established in 2002, the annual award acknowledges the important cont... more

Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada, winner of the 1992 Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History

In 1992, Constance Backhouse’s Petticoats and Prejudice: Women and Law in Nineteenth Century Canada received the Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History. Co-published in 1991 with The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, Petticoats and Prejudice explores the legal status of women in nineteenth-century... more

Becoming Girl: Collective Biography and the Production of Girlhood

Marnina Gonick and Susanne Gannon's Becoming Girl were selected as one of the honourable mentions in the 2016 Women's and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes Outstanding Scholarship Prize. This annual prize, established in 2002 (and previously called the CWSA/ACÉF Book Prize), acknowledges the important contri... more