February 8, 2012 - Ottawa, Canada - The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the short list of nominees for the Canada Prizes in the Humanities and the Canada Prizes in the Social Sciences. Awarded annually to one work in French and one in English in each category, the prizes are a benchmark for outstanding scholarly work in the humanities and social sciences.
“On behalf of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, I want to congratulate the 18 authors shortlisted for The Canada Prize, which recognizes outstanding scholarly works in the social sciences and humanities, and their thoughtful contribution to society,” said Graham Carr, president of CFHSS. “We are proud to support exceptional French and English authors who shed new light on intriguing topics ranging from Bethune to women and Canada’s cultural history to the artistry of Tom Thomson and Jean-Paul Riopelle.”
The four prizes are each valued at $2,500 and will be presented at a special award ceremony on Friday, March 30, 2012 at the Musée des beaux-arts in Montreal. The nominees are chosen from works supported by CFHSS’s Awards to Scholarly Publications Program and winners are selected by a jury of scholars from across the country.
Shortlisted Titles for the Canada Prizes
Canada Prize in the Humanities
FISHER, Susan R. Boys and Girls in No Man's Land: English-Canadian Children and the First World War (UTP)
GERSON, Carole Canadian Women in Print, 1750-1918 (WLUP)
MCKAY, Marylin J.. Picturing Land: Narrating Territories in Canadian Landscape Art, 1500-1950 (MQUP)
STEWART, Roderick, STEWART, Sharon. Pheonix: The Life of Norman Bethune (MQUP)
TREMBLAY, Tony. David Adams Richards of the Miramichi (UTP)
Canada Prize in the Social Sciences
HENDERSON, Stuart. Making the Scene: Yorkville and Hip Toronto in the 1960s (UTP)
LEDUC, Timothy B.. Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North (UOP)
REGAN, Paulette. Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth-telling and Reconciliation in Canada (UBC Press)
STRONG-BOAG, Veronica. Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (WLUP)
VAN WYCK, Peter C.. The Highway of the atom (MQUP)
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
BROUILLETTE, Marc André Spatialité textuelle dans la poésie contemporaine (Éditions Nota bene)
CELLARD, Karine Leçons de littérature : Un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec (PUM)
SAINT-JACQUES, Denis et ROBERT, Lucie La vie littéraire au Québec, tome VI (1919-1933) (PUL)
VIGNEAULT, Louise Espace artistique et modèle pionnier. Tom Thomson et Jean-Paul Riopelle
(Éditions Hurtubise inc.)
Prix du Canada en sciences sociales
BLAIS, Agnès Une ONG en Rusie post-soviétique (PUL)
DUCHARME, Michel Le concept de liberté au Canada à l'époque des Révolutions atlantiques, 1776-1838 (MQUP)
FYSON, Donald Magistrats, police et société : la justice criminelle ordinaire au Québec et au Bas-Canada (1764-1837) (Éditions Hurtubise inc.)
JOLIVET, Simon Le vert et le bleu. Identité québécoise et identité irlandaise au tournant du XXe siècle (PUM)
More Information:
Alison Hebbs
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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