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As 2022 comes to a close, MQUP authors are recognized in Canada and internationally for their exceptional work. The list below highlights some of the prizes awarded to our authors from May to December of 2022.
Debt, Law, Realism
Nigerian Writers Imagine the State at Independence
By Neil ten Kortenaar
“Kortenaar uses writings of the renowned Nigerian African writer Chinua Achebe (1930-2013), especially Things Fall Apart (1958), to elucidate the connection between debt, law, and realism in African writing. Highly recommended.”
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Material Culture in Motion, c.1780-1980
Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers and Anne Whitelaw
“This beautifully produced, well-illustrated collection is an important contribution to thinking about material culture and human networks, bringing together a powerful compilation of scholarship and objects from northern North America. This beautifully produced, well-illustrated collection is an important contribution to thinking about material culture and human networks, bringing together a powerful compilation of scholarship and objects from northern North America. Highly recommended.”
The Habsburg Empire under Siege
Ottoman Expansion and Hungarian Revolt in the Age of Grand Vizier Ahmed Köprülü (1661–76)
By Georg B. Michels
“Written in elegant prose, this work is essential reading for students of Habsburg, Hungarian, and Ottoman history.”
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
Memoir and Testimony
By Abraham Sutzkever
Edited and translated by Justin D. Cammy
A Yiddish Book Center Translation
Afterword by Justin D. Cammy and Avraham Novershtern
Prize Winner
“Justin Cammy’s translation of Abraham Sutzkever’s Vilna Ghetto brings a particularly powerful and riveting account of the destruction of the Jewish community of Vilna to English readers for the first time. From its opening line, the narrative combines elements of Sutzkever’s lyrical voice with vivid recollections and documentation of Nazi atrocities and Jewish resilience. In addition to this compelling memoir, the collection includes translations of Sutzkever’s testimony and diary from the Nuremberg trials as well as three reminiscences from his experiences in Moscow in the 1940s. Cammy’s deft introductions to the different sections; the detailed and thoughtful afterword, written with Avraham Novershtern; and the extensive footnotes, maps, photographs, chronology, and place-names create an essential volume for the study of East European Jewish literature, culture, and history.”
Prize selection committee: Naomi Brenner (Ohio State Univ., Columbus) and Harriet Lisa Murav (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana)
Aki-wayn-zih
A Person as Worthy as the Earth
By Eli Baxter
Award Winner in the English-Language Non-fiction Category
“Eli Baxter’s indelible memoir, Aki-wayn-zih, takes readers deep into Anishinaabay culture, language and history to reveal a rich and complex world, while showing how the link between language and land is crucial for survival and growth. At a time when he worries that the fires of Indigenous languages are going out, his simple and beautiful book, written across languages, cultures, and generations, radiates a radical kind of hope.”
Peer assessment committee: Will Aitken, Madhur Anand and Jenna Butler
From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg
Memoir and Testimony
By Abraham Sutzkever
Edited and translated by Justin D. Cammy
A Yiddish Book Center Translation
Afterword by Justin D. Cammy and Avraham Novershtern
Award Winner in the Yiddish Category
“Justin D. Cammy provides the first full English translation of Sutzkever’s memoirs seventy-five years after they first appeared in Yiddish in 1946. With the voice of a poet, Sutzkever recounts the scale of the Holocaust and what daily life, resistance, and death was like in the ghetto. The book’s final section includes Sutzkever’s testimony at the Nuremberg trials where he was the only Jewish writer to testify. He called his testimony a kaddish for the annihilated Jewish community of Vilna, as is this memoir. It’s especially worthwhile to read the afterword, which reveals in detail the complicated process of editing and translating this remarkable book, an exemplary scholarly feat.”
The Miramichi Fire
A History
By Alan MacEachern
Award Winner
“Not only does MacEachern’s comprehensive archival research delve deeply into provincial history, economics, and lore, but it also brings environmental, climatic, and hydrological understandings to bear on how such conflagrations start and spread; how they change ecosystems, work patterns, and populations; and how they are remembered in the popular imagination. As such, the book makes important contributions to our understanding of New Brunswick’s resource-dependent culture, both past and present. The book is thoroughly researched and written in a style that is scholarly and at times playful in its presentation of the facts and stories that have accompanied this momentous event in provincial history.”
In the Public Good
Eugenics and Law in Ontario
By Elizabeth Koester
Award Winner
Based on exhaustive research and written in an engaging manner, In the Public Good is an important addition to the study of eugenics in Canada and joins the lengthy list of worthy recipients of the Champlain Society’s Chalmers Award.
Mass Capture
Chinese Head Tax and the Making of Non-Citizens
By Lily Cho
Honorable Mention
“Following the in the footsteps of Tina Campt’s groundbreaking work, Mass Capture examines the formidable archive of CI-9’s, Canadian state documents used to monitor the identity and movement of Chinese migrants in and out of Canada from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. The jury found Cho’s work ambitious and deeply ethical as she locates in the photographs on the CI-9’s, an entry point to a vast history of non-citizenship, captivity, economic survival, and migration.”
Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America
Material Culture in Motion, c.1780-1980
Edited by Beverly Lemire, Laura Peers and Anne Whitelaw
Prize Winner
“The volume’s editors… and its authors bring diverse disciplinary and community knowledges to the material culture of Northern North America to draw out complex, dynamic histories of Indigeneity and settler colonialism. Through their creative and provocative research into the North, its authors contribute to restoring appreciation of the arts, technologies, and agencies of peoples indigenous to a region long characterized through imperial eyes as barren and empty.”
I Can Only Paint
The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton
By Irene Gammel
Award Winner
“I Can Only Paint: The Story of Battlefield Artist Mary Riter Hamilton makes an exceptional contribution to the field, breaking new ground as a model for histories of war artists and war art. A superb biography of the tragic Mary Riter Hamilton, this detailed study of her life’s work and commitment to her art is also excellent cultural-military, gender and commemorative history.”
“‘In this beautifully illustrated and innovative volume, Gammel takes history to another level,’ the committee noted in conferring the award. ‘She not only recounts the incredible personal story of Mary Riter Hamilton, but also curates the remarkable body of art Riter Hamilton produced on site while visiting battlefields in the immediate aftermath of the Great War. The artist rushed to Europe to paint the war-torn landscape before the graphic consequences of battle could be erased. Her art, much overshadowed in her time by the work of official artists, is itself preserved by Gammel, with generous illustration and vivid description’.”
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Berruyer’s Bible
Public Opinion and the Politics of Enlightenment Catholicism in France
By Daniel J. Watkins
Award Winner
“One judge wrote that Watkins’ book has ‘impressive primary research and command of relevant scholarship’ and ‘powerfully challenges the traditional historiographic paradigm . . . of the Enlightenment’s essentially secular nature.’ Another commented, ‘There is high drama in the story, and many parallels to be drawn for the history of Christianity today. In this book, Watkins does what historians do best: Broaden our context, enlarge our experience, give us eyes to see from many angles’.”
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