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About the Prizes
The Canada Prizes recognize the country’s five most inspiring, impactful, and transformative scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences annually. They award five (5) $4,000 prizes, including:
- at least one (1) book by a first-time author in English and one (1) book by a first-time author in French
- as well as at least one (1) other French-language book.
The Prizes’ assessment factors inspiring, impactful, and transformative convey the importance of scholarly books as links to the past, present, and future, while highlighting the richness and diversity of Canadian scholarship.
Juried by the Scholarly Book Awards Academic Council, the Prizes select the five best Scholarly Book Awards funded works. If you are interested in becoming a future winner, visit the Scholarly Book Awards page to learn more and apply.
The Canada Prizes are made possible thanks to the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
2024 winners
The Canada Prizes play a vital role in building a more inclusive, democratic, and prosperous society, underscoring the profound impact of academic scholarship on our collective understanding of the world. As Canada Prize recipients, these books have been selected as inspiring, impactful, and transformative.
This year, the Prizes jury has selected the following five books.
- Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina Deanna Reder
- Penser la « pervertibilité » - Avec Jacques Derrida Nicholas Cotton
- Cripping Intersex Celeste E. Orr
- Regards sur le monde. Conflits éthiques et pensées romanesques dans la littérature française contemporaine Pascal Riendeau
- Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin: Wolves and the Making of Canada Stephanie Rutherford
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History & past winners
A new phase
The reimagined structure, launched November 2024, celebrates a range of voices, from established scholars to first-time authors, while championing French and English language works and amplifying a broad scope of perspectives across our disciplines, in line with the Federation’s commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID). Key modifications include:
- Five (5) $4,000 prizes have replaced the previous two (2) $10,000 prizes, to broaden our recognition of authors across various fields.
- New categories have been introduced, including a minimum of two (2) prizes for first time authors and one (1) dedicated prize for French-language books.
- The Scholarly Books Awards (formally the ASPP) Academic Council will serve as the unified jury for the Canada Prizes, replacing the previous separate English and French juries, to foster a more cohesive and inclusive evaluation process.
- EDID principles are embedded in every aspect of the Prizes selection and award process, reflecting a commitment to fostering a more inclusive and equitable scholarly community.
The new iteration is the outcome of a comprehensive review of the program that began in 2021.
The winner of the 2020 Prix du Canada was Michel Bouchard, Sébastien Malette, and Guillaume Marcotte's work Les Bois-Brûlés de l'Outaouais - Une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau (Presses de l’Université Laval).
Following the jury’s decision, members of the community expressed deep concerns and criticisms with the book, regarding Indigenous self-identification within the context of the work.
Recognizing the moment as a critical call for learning and reflection, the Canada Prizes were put on hold. A comprehensive review of the program began in 2021 that engaged scholars, stakeholders, and Federation community members. The program was relaunched with a new structure in November 2024.
The reimagined structure marks a strengthened focus on equity, diversity, inclusion, and decolonization (EDID) through the implementation of several key changes. The relaunched Canada Prizes continue to build upon the progress we have made in various areas of EDID since the independent Congress Advisory Committee on EDID released their "Igniting Change" report in 2021.
2020
Winner: Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Wendy Wickwire, At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press)
Winner: Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales
- Michel Bouchard, Guillaume Marcotte, and Sébastien Malette, Les Bois-Brûlés de l’Outaouais: une étude ethnoculturelle des Métis de la Gatineau (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Finalists: Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Edward Anthony Koning, Immigration & the Politics of Welfare Exclusion: Selective Solidarity in Western Democracies (U of T Press)
- Kent McNeil, Flawed Precedent: The St. Catherine’s Case and Aboriginal Title (UBC Press)
- Raymond B. Blake & Melvin Baker, Where Once They Stood: Newfoundland’s Rocky Road towards Confederation (U of Regina Press)
- Andrea Katherine Medovarski, Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women’s Writing (U of T Press)
Finalists: Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales
- Vincent Charles Lambert and Karine Cellard, Espaces critiques: écrire sur la littérature et les autres arts au Québec (1920-1960) (Presses de l’Université Laval)
- Isabelle Kirouac Massicotte, Des mines littéraires: l’imaginaire minier dans les littératures de l’Abitibi et du Nord de l’Ontario, (Éditions Prise de parole)
- Dave Noël, Montcalm, général américain (Éditions du Boréal)
- Thierry Nootens, Genre, patrimoine et droit civil: les femmes mariées de la bourgeoisie québécoise en procès, 1900-1930 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
2019
Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Winner: Allan Downey, The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood (UBC Press)
Finalists:
Constance B. Backhouse, Claire L'Heureux-Dubé: A Life (UBC Press)
Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal System (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Allan Downey, The Creator’s Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood (UBC Press)
Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease in Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Shirley Tillotson, Give and Take: The Citizen-Taxpayer and the Rise of Canadian Democracy (UBC Press)
Jury: Eric Helleiner (Chair), Sherrill Grace, Elsbeth Heaman, Blair Stonechild.
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales
Winner: Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren, Le Piège de la liberté. Les peuples autochtones dans l'engrenage des régimes coloniaux (Les éditions du Boréal)
Finalists:
Pierre Anctil, Histoire des Juifs du Québec (Les éditions du Boréal)
Denys Delâge et Jean-Philippe Warren, Le Piège de la liberté. Les peuples autochtones dans l'engrenage des régimes coloniaux (Les éditions du Boréal)
Sophie Dubois, Refus global. Histoire d'une réception partielle (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Anne Gilbert, Linda Cardinal, Michel Bock, Lucie Hotte et François Charbonneau, Ottawa, lieu de vie français (Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa)
Adrien Rannaud, De l'amour et de l'audace. Femmes et roman au Québec dans les années 1930 (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal
Jury: Lucie Lamarche (Chair), Dominique Caouette, Caroline Desbiens and Alex Gagnon
Related content
Blogs: Downey | Delâge et Warren
Videos: Downey Delâge et Warren
2018
Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Winner: E.A. Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867-1917 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Finalists:
Christopher Dummitt, Unbuttoned: A History of Mackenzie King's Secret Life (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Adam Montgomery, The Invisible Injured: Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Cheryl Suzack, Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law (University of Toronto Press)
Donald G. Wetherell, Wildlife, Land, and People: A Century of Change in Prairie Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Jury : Patricia Demers (Chair), Eric Helleiner, Arthur J. Ray, Nancy Turner
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales
Winner: Alex Gagnon, La communauté du dehors. Imaginaire social et crimes célèbres au Québec (XIXe-XXe siècle) (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Finalists:
Houda Asal, Se dire arabe au Canada. Un siècle d'histoire migratoire (Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Julien Goyette, Temps et culture. Fernand Dumont et la philosophie de l'histoire (Les Presses de l’Université Laval)
Lucie Hotte et François Paré, Les littératures franco-canadiennes à l’épreuve du temps (Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa)
Laurent Poliquin, De l’impuissance à l’autonomie. Évolution culturelle et enjeux identitaires des minorités canadiennes-françaises (Éditions Prise de parole)
Jury: Pierre Anctil (Chair), Hélène Cazes, Lucie Lamarche, Gordon Mace
Related content
Blogs: Heaman | Gagnon
Photos: Awards Ceremony
Videos: Awards Ceremony | Heaman | Gagnon
2017
Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Winner: Arthur J. Ray, Aboriginal Rights Claims and the Making and Remaking of History (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Finalists:
Emilie Cameron, Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic (University of British Columbia Press)
Gerhard J. Ens and Joseph Sawchuk, From New Peoples to New Nations: Aspects of Métis History and Identity from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries (University of Toronto Press)
Sean Mills, A Place in the Sun: Haiti, Haitians, and the Remaking of Quebec (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Donald Wright, Donald Creighton: A Life in History (University of Toronto Press)
Jury: David E. Smith (Chair), Patricia Demers, Kathleen E. Mahoney, Brian Young
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines et sociales
Winner: Mylène Bédard, Écrire en temps d'insurrections : Pratiques épistolaires et usages de la presse chez les femmes patriotes (1830-1840) (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Finalists:
Amélie Bourbeau, Techniciens de l'organisation sociale. La réorganisation de l'assistance catholique privée à Montréal (1930-1974) (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Marie-France Labrecque, La migration saisonnière des Mayas du Yucatan au Canada. La dialectique de la mobilité (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Guillaume Pinson, La culture médiatique francophone en Europe et en Amérique du Nord : De 1760 à la veille de la Seconde Guerre mondiale (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Ania Wroblewski, La vie des autres : Sophie Calle et Annie Ernaux, artistes hors-la-loi (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Jury: Pierre Anctil (Chair), Caroline Caron, Ryoa Chung, Frédérick Guillaume Dufour
Related content
Blogs: Ray | Bédard
Photos: Awards Ceremony
Videos: Ray | Bédard
2016 - 25th Anniversary
Canada Prize in Humanities
Winner: Brian Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Finalists:
Jennifer L. Bonnell, Reclaiming the Don: An Environmental History of Toronto's Don River Valley (University of Toronto Press)
Norman Hillmer, O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition (University of Toronto Press)
Michel Hogue, Metis and the Medicine Line: Creating a Border and Dividing a People (University of Regina Press)
Ian Mosby, Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada's Home Front (UBC Press)
Jury: Bronwyn Drainie, Stephen Henighan, Ronald Rudin
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Winner: Caroline Durand, Nourrir la machine humaine : Nutrition et alimentation au Québec, 1860-1945 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Finalists:
Andrée Rivard, Histoire de l'accouchement dans un Québec moderne (Éditions du remue-ménage)
Patricia Smart, De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan : Se dire, se faire par l'écriture intime (Éditions du Boréal)
Jury: Yves Frenette, Yan Hamel, Monique Régimbald-Zeiber
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Winner: Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Volume 1 and Volume 2 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Finalists:
Chris Andersen, Métis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood (UBC Press)
Dominique Clément, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State, 1953-84 (UBC Press)
Girish Daswani, Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost (University of Toronto Press)
Jury: Michael Asch, Joseph Heath, Linda Kealey
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
Winner: Caroline Caron, Vues, mais non entendues. Les adolescentes québécoises et l'hypersexualisation (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Finalists:
Joel Belliveau, Le «moment 68» et la réinvention de l'Acadie (Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa)
Olivier Côté, Construire la nation au petit écran : Le Canada, une histoire populaire de CBC/Radio Canada (1995-2002) (Éditions du Septentrion)
Linda Kay, Elles étaient seize : Les premières femmes journalistes au Canada (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Jury: Daniel Béland, Steven Guilbeault, Dominique Perron
Related content
Blogs: Caron | Durand | Turner | Young
Photos: Awards Ceremony
2015
Canada Prize in Humanities
Winner: Charlotte Townsend-Gault, Jennifer Kramer, and Ḳi-ḳe-in, Native Art of the Northwest Coast: A History of Changing Ideas (UBC Press)
Finalists:
Phyllis D. Airhart, A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada (McGill- Queen's University Press)
Gene Allen, Making National News: A History of Canadian Press (University of Toronto Press)
Sandra Campbell, Both Hands: A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Stephen Henighan, Sandino's Nation: Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramirez Writing Nicaragua, 1940-2012 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Jury: Margaret Conrad, Sandra Dwja, Jane Koustas
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Winner: Yan Hamel, L'Amérique selon Sartre : littérature, philosophie, politique (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Finalists:
Stéphane Savard, Hydro-Québec et l'État Québécois, 1944-2005 (Éditions du Septentrion)
Sherry Simon, Villes en traduction. Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelone et Montréal (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Jury: Pierre Anctil, Jocelyn Maclure, Catherine Mavrikakis
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Winner: Michael Asch, On Being Here to Stay: Treaties and Aboriginal Rights in Canada (University of Toronto Press)
Finalists:
Caroline Desbiens, Power from the North: Territory, Identity, and the Culture of Hydroelectricity in Quebec (UBC Press)
Erika Dyck, Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice (University of Toronto Press)
Elizabeth Sheehy, Defending Battered Women on Trial: Lessons from the Transcripts (UBC Press)
Ron Williams, Landscape Architecture in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Jury: Pat Armstrong, Robert Bothwell, David E. Smith
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
Winner: Dominique Perron, L’Alberta autophage : identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l’Ouest canadien (University of Calgary Press)
Finalists:
Frédérick Bastien, Tout le monde en regarde! La politique, le journalisme et l'infodivertissement à la télévision québécoise (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Jean-Pierre Deslauriers, Les groupes communautaires : vers un changement de paradigme? (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Géraldine Mossière, Converties à l'islam : Parcours de femmes au Québec et en France (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Jury: Gérard Bouchard, Fannie Lafontaine, Hugues Théroêt
Related content
Videos: Asch | Hamel | Perron | Townsend-Gault and Kramer | Ceremony
Photos: Awards Ceremony
Blogs: Asch | Hamel | Perron | Townsend-Gault et al.
2014
Canada Prize in Humanities
Winner: Sandra Djwa, Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Finalists:
Dimitry Anastakis, Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade (University of Toronto Press)
Bruce Curtis, Ruling by Schooling Quebec: Conquest to Liberal Governmentality - A Historical Sociology (University of Toronto Press)
Patrick Grant, Imperfection (Athabasca University Press)
Kirsty Johnston, Stage Turns: Canadian Disability Theatre (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Jury: François-Marc Gagnon, Linda Hutcheon, Andrew Rippin
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Winner: Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal, 1896-1954 : Un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Finalists:
Martine Béland, Kulturkritik et philosophie thérapeutique chez le jeune Nietzsche (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Marie-Josée Fortier, Les jardins d'agrément en Nouvelle-France : Étude historique et cartographique (Éditions GID)
Jury: Lise Bissonnette, Thomas De Koninck, Michel Nareau
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Winner: David E. Smith, Across the Aisle: Opposition in Canadian Politics (University of Toronto Press)
Finalists:
Christopher Armstrong and H.V. Nelles, Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir (University of Calgary Press)
Rowland Lorimer, Ultra Libris: Policy, Technology, and the Creative Economy of Book Publishing in Canada (ECW Press)
Jury: Michael Adams, Gregory Kealey, Janice Gross Stein
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
Winner: Hugues Théorêt, Les chemises bleues : Adrien Arcand, journaliste antisémite canadien-français (Éditions du Septentrion)
Finalists:
Suzanne Laurin, L'échiquier de Mirabel (Éditions du Boréal)
Marie-Claude Thifault, L'incontournable caste des femmes : Histoire des services de santé au Québec et au Canada (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa)
Jury: Renée Dupuis, Xavier Gélinas, Nicolas Vonarx
Related content
Audio: Interviews
Photos: Awards Ceremony | Finalists’ Reception
Blogs: Anctil | Djwa | Smith | Théorêt | Ceremony Keynote
2013
Canada Prize in Humanities
Winners: François-Marc Gagnon, Réal Ouellet, and Nancy Senior, The Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Finalists:
Elena Lamberti, Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic: Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies (University of Toronto Press)
Sophie McCall, First Person Plural: Aboriginal Storytelling and the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship (UBC Press)
David A. Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 2: The Extreme Moderate, 1857-1868 (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Jury: Natalie Zemon Davis, Susan R. Fisher, Noreen Golfman
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Winner: Michel Nareau, Double jeu : Baseball et littératures américaines (Le Quartanier)
Finalists:
Susan Margaret Murphy, Le Canada anglais de Jacques Ferron (1960-1970) : formes, fonctions et représentations (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Sylvain Schryburt, De l'acteur vedette au théâtre de festival : Histoire des pratiques scéniques montréalaises, 1940-1980 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Jury: Jocelyn Letourneau, Louise Vigneault, Daniel Weinstock
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Winners: Reg Whitaker, Gregory S. Kealey, and Andrew Parnaby, Secret Service: Political Policing in Canada from the Fenians to Fortress America (University of Toronto Press)
Finalists:
Bettina Bradbury, Wife to Widow: Lives, Laws, and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Montreal (UBC Press)
Tarah Brookfield, Cold War Comforts: Canadian Women, Child Safety, and Global Insecurity (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Bonita Lawrence, Fractured Homeland: Federal Recognition and Algonquin Identity in Ontario (UBC Press)
Jury: Charlotte Gray, Mark Kingwell, Veronica Strong-Boag
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
Winner: Nicolas Vonarx, Le Vodou haïtien : Entre médecine, magie et religion (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Finalists:
Chantal Bouchard, Méchante langue : La légitimité linguistique du français parlé au Québec (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Mario Mimeault, Destins de pêcheurs : Les Basques en Nouvelle-France (Éditions du Septentrion)
Jury: Denise Bombardier, Nathalie Des Rosiers, Michel Ducharme
Related content
Videos: Gagnon | Nareau | Whitaker and Parnaby | Vonarx
Blogs: Gagnon et al. | Nareau | Whitaker et al. | Vonarx
2012
Canada Prize in Humanities
Winner: Susan R. Fisher, Boys and Girls in No Man’s Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War (University of Toronto Press)
Finalists:
Carole Gerson, Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918 (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Marylin J. McKay, Picturing Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Stewart Roderick and Sharon Stewart, Pheonix: The Life of Norman Bethune (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Tony Tremblay, David Adams Richards of the Miramichi (University of Toronto Press)
Jury: Di Brandt, Robert Davidson, Tobias Gittes, Shelagh Grant, Gene Walz, David Williams
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Winner: Louise Vigneault, Espace artistique et modèle pionnier. Tom Thomson et Jean-Paul Riopelle (Éditions Hurtubise)
Finalists:
Marc André Brouillette, Spatialité textuelle dans la poésie contemporaine (Éditions Nota bene)
Karine Cellard, Leçons de littérature : Un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Denis Saint-Jacques et Lucie Robert, La vie littéraire au Québec, tome VI (1919-1933) (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Jury: Pascale Fleury, François-Marc Gagnon
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Winner: Veronica Strong-Boag, Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Finalists:
Stuart Henderson, Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (University of Toronto Press)
Timothy B. Leduc, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North (University of Ottawa Press)
Paulette Regan, Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth-telling and Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press)
Peter C. Van Wyck, The Highway of the atom (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Jury: Lyle Dick, Stephen Duguid, Rebecca Johnson, John Lutz, Meg Luxton
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
Winner: Michel Ducharme, Le concept de liberté au Canada à l’époque des Révolutions atlantiques, 1776-1838 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Finalists:
Agnès Blais, Une ONG en Rusie post-soviétique (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Donald Fyson, Magistrats, police et société : la justice criminelle ordinaire au Québec et au Bas-Canada (1764-1837) (Éditions Hurtubise)
Simon Jolivet, Le vert et le bleu. Identité québécoise et identité irlandaise au tournant du XXe siècle (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Jury: Marie-Aimée Cliche, Michel Despland, Marion Froger
Related content
Videos and blogs: Ducharme | Fisher | Strong-Boag | Vigneault
2011
Canada Prize in Humanities
Winner: Louis-Jacques Dorais, The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Finalists:
Di Brandt and Barbara Godard, Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Robert A. Davidson, Jazz Age Barcelona (University of Toronto Press)
Gail Edwards and Judith Saltman, Picturing Canada: A History of Canadian Children’s Illustrated Books and Publishing (University of Toronto Press)
Stephen Guy-Bray, Against Reproduction: Where Renaissance Texts Come From (University of Toronto Press)
Jury: R. Bruce Elder, Madeline Hron, Marylin MacKay, Anna Smol
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
Winner: Antoine Boisclair, L'École du regard. Poésie et peinture chez Saint-Denys Garneau, Roland Giguère et Robert Melançon (Éditions Fides)
Finalists:
Michel Despland, Le recul du sacrifice (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Sandrina Joseph, Objects de mépris, sujets de langage (Éditions XYZ)
Christian Leduc, Substance, individu et connaissance chez Leibniz (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Jury: Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, François Dumont, Margot Irvine, Marilyn Randall
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
Winner: Joy Parr, Sensing Changes: Technologies, Environments, and the Everyday, 1953-2003 (UBC Press)
Finalists:
John Borrows, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (University of Toronto Press)
Alan Gordon, The Hero and the Historians: Historiography and the Uses of Jacques Cartier (UBC Press)
Bryan D. Palmer, Canada’s 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era (University of Toronto Press)
Phil Ryan, Multicultiphobia (University of Toronto Press)
Jury: Sharon Cook, Joanne Fiske, Reinhold Kramer, James Rice, David A. Wilson
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
Winner: Marion Froger, Le cinéma à l'épreuve de la communauté. Le cinéma francophone de l'Office national du film, 1960-1985 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Finalists:
Emma Anderson, La trahison de la foi (Presses de l’Université Laval)
Peter C. Bischoff, Les débardeurs au port de Québec : tableau des luttes syndicales, 1831-1902 (Éditions Hurtubise)
Lucie Joubert, Écouter la chanson (Éditions Fides)
Jury: Bernard Bernier, Manon Tremblay, Anne Trépanier
2010-1989
Before 2011, the Canada Prizes were known as the Raymond Klibansky Prize, for the best English book in the humanities; the Prix Raymond-Klibansky, for the best French book in the humanities; the Harold Adams Innis Prize, for the best English book in the social sciences; and the Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau, for the best French book in the social sciences. The prizes were awarded annually in the year following the prize period (i.e. the 2008-2009 prizes were awarded in 2010).
2008-2009
Raymond Klibansky Prize: David A. Wilson, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume I Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Pierre Popovic, Imaginaire social et folie littéraire. Le seconde Empire de Paulin Gagne (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: John Lutz, Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal White Relations (UBC Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Michel Seymour, De la tolérance à la reconnaissance : une théorie libérale des droits collectifs (Éditions du Boréal)
2007-2008
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Leslie Dawn, National Visions, National Blindness : Canadian Art and Identities in the 1920s (UBC Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Denise Brassard, Le souffle du passage : Poésie et essais chez Fernand Ouellette (VLB éditeur)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Tina Loo, States of Nature: Conserving Canada’s Wildlife in the Twentieth Century (UBC Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Claude Gélinas, Les autochtones dans le Québec post-confédéral, 1867-1960 (Éditions du Septentrion)
2006-2007
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Daniel Coleman, White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Élyse Dupras, Diables et saints. Rôle des diables dans les mystères hagiographiques français (Librairie DROZ)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: José Igartua, The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71 (UBC Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Marie-Aimée Cliche, Maltraiter ou punir? La violence envers les enfants dans les familles québécoises, 1850-1969 (Éditions du Boréal)
2005-2006
Raymond Klibansky Prize: James Flath, The Cult of Happiness: Nianhua, Art, and History in Rural North China (UBC Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Éric Méchoulan, Le livre avalé. De la littérature entre mémoire et culture (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Stephen Ward, The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Denyse Baillargeon, Un Québec en mal d’enfants. La médicalisation de la maternité, 1910-1970 (Éditions remue-ménage)
2004-2005
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Peter Ives, Gramsci’s Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Michel Lacroix, De la beauté comme violence. L’esthétique du fascisme français, 1919-1939 (Presses de l’Université de Montréal)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Heather Devine, The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900 (University of Calgary Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gilles Bibeau, Le Québec transgénique. Science, marché, humanité (Éditions du Boréal)
2003-2004
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Louise Bienvenue, Quand la jeunesse entre en scène. L'Action catholique avant la Révolution tranquille (Éditions du Boréal)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Rebecca Johnson, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (UBC Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gilles Havard, Empire et métissages. Indiens et Français dans le Pays d'en Haut, 1660-1715 (Éditions du Septentrion)
2002-2003
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Toby Morantz, The White Man's Gonna Getcha: The Colonial Challenges to the Crees in Quebec (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Lori Saint-Martin, La Voyageuse et la Prisonnière. Gabrielle Roy et la question des femmes (Éditions du Boréal)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Lyle Dick, Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact (University of Calgary Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Yves Théorêt, Le fédéralisme et les communications. Les relations intergouvernementales au Canada de 1984 à 1993 (Éditions Hurtubise)
2001-2002
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Marilyn Randall, Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Germain Lacasse, Le bonimenteur de vues animées: Le cinéma " muet " entre tradition et modernité (Éditions Nota bene)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gervais Carpin, Le Réseau du Canada. Étude du monde migratoire de la France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662) (Éditions du Septentrion)
2000-2001
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson, Paddling her Own Canoe: Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Yvan Lamonde, Histoire sociale des idées au Québec (1760 - 1896) (Éditions Fides)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Stephen Duguid, Can Prisons Work? The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Daniel Dagenais, La fin de la famille moderne. Signification des transformations contemporaines de la famille (Presses de l'Université Laval)
1999-2000
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Donald S. Hair, Robert Browning's Language (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Esther Trépanier, Peinture et modernité au Québec 1919-1939 (Éditions Nota Bene)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Michael Ornstein and Michael Stevenson, Politics and ideology in Canada: Elite and Public Opinion in the Transformation of a Welfare State (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Bernard Allaire, Pelleteries, manchons et chapeaux de castor. Les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris, 1500-1632 (Éditions du Septentrion)
1998-1999
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Susan Glickman, The Picturesque and the Sublime: A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: François-Marc Gagnon, Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois, 1941-1954 (Lanctôt éditeur)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Linda Freeman, The Ambiguous Champion: Canada and South Africa in the Trudeau and Mulroney Years (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Dominique Marshall, Aux origines sociales de l'État-providence (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
1997-1998
Raymond Klibansky Prize: David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Marcel Olscamp, Le Fils du notaire. Jacques Ferron, 1921-1949 (Éditions Fides)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: A.A. den Otter, The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Michel Morin, L'Usurpation de la souveraineté autochtone. Le cas des peuples de la Nouvelle-France et des colonies anglaises de l'Amérique du Nord (Éditions du Boréal)
1996-1997
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Lorne Falkenstein, Kant's Intuitionism: A Commentary on the Transcendental Aesthetic (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Benoît Melançon, Diderot épistolier. Contribution à une poétique de la lettre familière au XVIIIe siècle (Éditions Fides)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau, A Full-Orbed Christianity: The Protestant Churches and Social Welfare in Canada, 1900-1940 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Pierre Camu, Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la voile, 1608-1850 (Éditions Hurtubise)
1995-1996
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Guy P. R. Métraux, Sculptors and Physicians in Fifth-Century Greece (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Claude Lamy, Hubert Aquin. Mélanges littéraires I: Profession: écrivain; Jacinthe Martel, Hubert Aquin. Mélanges littéraires II: Comprendre dangereusement; Jacques Allard, Hubert Aquin. Prochain épisode; Guylaine Massoutre, Hubert Aquin. Point de fuite (Leméac Éditeur)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Joan Sangster, Earning Respect: The Lives of Working Women in Small-Town Ontario, 1920-1960 (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: René Hardy, La sidérurgie dans le monde rural. Les hauts fourneaux du Québec au XIXe siècle (Presses de l'Université Laval)
1994-1995
Raymond Klibansky Prize: J.D. Schmidt, Within the Human Realm: The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905 (Cambridge University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Michel Biron, La modernité belge. Littérature et société (Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Wallace Clement and John Myles, Relations of Ruling: Class and Gender in Postindustrial Societies (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Gilles Bibeau et Marc Perreault, Dérives montréalaises. À travers des itinéraires de toxicomanies dans le quartier Hochelaga-Maisonneuve (Éditions du Boréal)
1993-1994
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Evelyn Cobley, Representing War: Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Lucie Bourassa, Rythme et sens. Des processus rythmiques en poésie contemporaine (Presses de l'Université Laval); Philip Knee, Qui perd gagne. Essai sur Sartre (Éditions Balzac)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Bettina Bradbury, Working Families: Age, Gender, and Daily Survival in Industrializing Montreal (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Louis-Edmond Hamelin, Le Rang d'habitat. Le réel et l'imaginaire (Éditions Hurtubise)
1992-1993
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Barbara Rieti, Strange Terrain: The Fairy World in Newfoundland (ISER Books)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Serge Cantin, Le Philosophe et le déni du politique. Marx, Henry, Platon (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Richard Johnston, André Blais, Henry E. Brady, Jean Crête, Letting the People Decide: Dynamics of a Canadian Election (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Yves Landry, Les Filles du roi au XVIIe siècle. Suivi d'un Répertoire biographique des Filles du roi (Leméac Éditeur)
1991-1992
Raymond Klibansky Prize: James A. Leith, Space and Revolution: Projects for Monuments, Squares, and Public Buildings in France, 1789-1799 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Maurice Lemire, et. al., La vie littéraire au Québec, vol. 1, 1764-1805 (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Joy Parr, The Gender of Breadwinners: Women, Men and Change in Two Industrial Towns, 1880-1950 (University of Toronto Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: André Cellard, Histoire de la folie au Québec, 1600-1850 (Éditions du Boréal)
1990-1991
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Elizabeth Rapley, The Dévotes: Women and Church in Seventeenth-Century France (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Pierre Berthiaume, L'Aventure américaine au XVIIIe siècle. Du voyage à l'écriture (Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: Philip Resnick, The Masks of Proteus: Canadian Reflections on the State (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Serge Courville, Entre ville et campagne. L'essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada (Presses de l'Université Laval)
1989-1990
Raymond Klibansky Prize: Mary Lynn Stewart, Women, Work and the French State: Labour Protection and Social Patriarchy, 1879-1919 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Raymond-Klibansky: Lucie Robert, L'institution du littéraire au Québec (Presses de l'Université Laval)
Harold Adams Innis Prize: William E. Conklin, Images of a Constitution (University of Toronto Press); Hoh-Cheung Mui and Lorna H. Mui, Shops and Shopkeeping in Eighteenth-Century England (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau: Jean-Paul Lafrance, Le Câble ou l'univers médiatique en mutation (Éditions Québec-Amérique)
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