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Cataloguing Culture
Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation
In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.
2022, Winner - The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize, Canadian Anthropology Society
- Copyright year: 2020
A Great Revolutionary Wave
Women and the Vote in British Columbia
The first book on the woman’s suffrage movement in British Columbia, A Great Revolutionary Wave traces the history of the fight for the vote from the 1870s to the 1940s against a backdrop of social reform, international social movements, labour politics, and settler colonialism.
2021, Commended - Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Association
2021, Winner - Clio Awards (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Society
- Copyright year: 2020
War Junk
Munitions Disposal and Postwar Reconstruction in Canada
War Junk recounts the surprising history of leftover military munitions and supplies, revealing their complex political, economic, social, and environmental legacies in postwar Canada.
2022, Commended - C.P. Stacey Award
- Copyright year: 2020
King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land
The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae
This insider look at the forces that came together to make Canada’s reggae scene reaffirms the power of music to combat racism and build bridges between communities and cultures.
2021, Winner - Joseph Brant Award, Ontario Historical Society
- Copyright year: 2020
The Good Fight
Marcel Cadieux and Canadian Diplomacy
The Good Fight is the insightful and entertaining biography of arguably the most important francophone diplomat and civil servant in Canadian history.
2020, Winner - J.W. Dafoe Book Prize, J.W. Dafoe Foundation
- Copyright year: 2019
The Way Home
Crafted from memories, legends, and art, this powerful memoir tells the uplifting story of an Indigenous man’s struggle to reconnect with his culture and walk in the footsteps of his father and the generations of Kwakwa̱ka̱’wakw artists that came before him.
2020, Shortlisted - Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction, The Writers' Trust of Canada
- Copyright year: 2019