More Awards for MQUP Authors!

It has been a busy past few months on the awards scene for MQUP. Here’s a little round-up of some of the more recent prizes awarded to our authors. CONGRATULATIONS to all the authors, from all of us at MQUP!

2016 Outstanding Scholarship Prize
Award by the Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes association

WINNER:
Gada Mahrouse, Conflicted Commitment: Race, Privilege, and Power in Solidarity Activism

A critical look at the politics and paradoxes of race in humanitarian efforts.

CSSR 2016 Book Prize
Awarded by the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion

WINNER:
Phyllis Airhart, A Church with the Soul of a Nation: Making and Remaking the United Church of Canada (2013)

Mary W. Klinger Book Award
Awarded by the Society for Economic Botany 2016
WINNER

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Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize (2016)
Awarded by the Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada
FINALIST

Nancy Turner, Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge: Ethnobotany and Ecological Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America. Volume 1 & Volume 2 (2014)

How knowledge of plants and environments has been applied and shared over centuries and millennia by Indigenous peoples.

Note: Ancient Pathways, Ancestral Knowledge has now won 9 awards!