Awards

UBC Press is proud to publish outstanding scholarly works by some of the world’s preeminent scholars. We congratulate our authors and volume editors who have been recognized with awards and citations.

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Truth and Conviction

Donald Marshall Jr. and the Mi’kmaw Quest for Justice

A passionate account of how one man’s fight against racism and injustice transformed the criminal justice system and galvanized the Mi’kmaw Nation’s struggle for self-determination, forever changing the landscape of Indigenous rights in Canada and around the world.

Awards

2020, Winner - Atlantic Book Awards, Atlantic Book Awards and Festival

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Our Voices Must Be Heard

Women and the Vote in Ontario

Our Voices Must Be Heard examines the ideals and failings of Ontario’s suffrage history, its daring supporters and thunderous enemies, and its blind spots on matters of race and class.

Awards

2018, Winner - Alison Prentice Award for Best Book in Ontario Women's and Gender History, Ontario Historical Society

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Incorporating Culture

How Indigenous People Are Reshaping the Northwest Coast Art Industry

Incorporating Culture examines what happens when Indigenous people assert control over the commercialization of their art by instilling the market with their communities’ values.

Awards

2019, Shortlisted - Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize, UBC Library

2019, Winner - K.D. Srivastava Prize for Excellence in Scholarly Publishing, UBC Press

2020, Shortlisted - Society for Economic Anthropology Book Prize, Society for Economic Anthropology

2020, Commended - Council for Museum Anthropology Book Award, Council for Museum Anthropology

  • Copyright year: 2018
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The Last Suffragist Standing

The Life and Times of Laura Marshall Jamieson

The Last Suffragist Standing is an unprecedented study of a pioneering Canadian suffragist and politician and an illuminating work on the history of feminism, socialism, internationalism, and activism in Canada.

Awards

2019, Shortlisted - Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, BC Historical Federation

  • Copyright year: 2018
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A Family Matter

Citizenship, Conjugal Relationships, and Canadian Immigration Policy

A Family Matter investigates the implications for immigrants and refugees of the Canadian government’s definition of what constitutes “family.”

Awards

2020, Commended - Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award, American Political Science Association

2019, Shortlisted - Donald Smiley Prize, Canadian Political Science Association

  • Copyright year: 2018
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Breaching the Peace

The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand against Big Hydro

By Sarah Cox; Foreword by Alex Neve

Award-winning journalist Sarah Cox recounts the prolonged battle, led by farmers and First Nations, to stop the cripplingly expensive and environmentally irresponsible Site C dam.

Awards

2019, Winner - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC Book Prizes

2019, Shortlisted - Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, Writers’ Trust of Canada

  • Copyright year: 2018
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