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Pentecostal Preacher Woman
The Faith and Feminism of Bernice Gerard
Evangelical pastor, talk-show host, politician, musician. Pentecostal Preacher Woman explores the complex life of Bernice Gerard, one of the most influential spiritual figures of twentieth-century British Columbia.
2025, Shortlisted - 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2024
Under the White Gaze
Solving the Problem of Race and Representation in Canadian Journalism
Blending research with a reporter’s journey through the industry, Under the White Gaze takes a pointed look at how people of colour are routinely missing, marginalized, or misrepresented in Canadian journalism, and explores what can be done to make our media more inclusive.
2025, Shortlisted - 2025 Jim Deva Prize, BC and Yukon Book Prizes
- Copyright year: 2024
Signs of the Time
Nłeʔkepmx Resistance through Rock Art
Drawing on a unique blend of Indigenous and Western sources, Signs of the Time explores Nłeʔkepmx rock art making to reveal the historical and cultural meaning beneath its beguiling imagery.
2025, Shortlisted - 2025 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2024
Canada’s Prime Ministers and the Shaping of a National Identity
What is Canada? This new look at “Canada” shows how the country’s prime ministers have consciously worked to shape national identity through their speeches and rhetoric.
2025, Shortlisted - Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Writers' Trust of Canada
- Copyright year: 2024
Land and the Liberal Project
Canada’s Violent Expansion
Land and the Liberal Project explores the “improving” ideas that informed the expansion of Canada from coast to coast, exposing the justifications for state violence and appropriation of Indigenous territory, thus challenging our assumptions about Canadian sovereignty.
2024, Winner -
Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
- Copyright year: 2024
Canada and Colonialism
An Unfinished History
Canada and Colonialism presents the history Canadians must reckon with before decolonization is possible, from the nation’s establishment as a settler colony to the discriminatory legacies still at work in our institutions and culture.
2025, Shortlisted - 2025 George Ryga Award, BC BookWorld
- Copyright year: 2024