MQUP 2020 Award Winners Roundup

As a press dedicated to publishing work that engages in public debate, current events, politics, contemporary thought, and the arts, McGill-Queen’s University Press is honored to share the many ways in which our book list shapes the world around us. Recent awards and accolades, earned by our authors and publishing partners, demonstrate how MQUP’s mission intersects with regional, national, and international networks of readers and researchers. In this vein, this week’s blog post celebrates award winners and finalists to date in 2020.

Congratulations to all of the winners, finalists, and nominees!

2020 Winners

M. Max Hamon was awarded the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History 2019 Wilson Book Prize/Prix du livre de l’Institut Wilson, offered to the book with the best exploration of Canadian history that succeeds in making Canadian historical scholarship accessible to a wide and transnational audience, for his book The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875 (2019).

Emma McCluskey was awarded the International Studies Association’s 2020 International Political Sociology Book Award, a yearly award for the best book in the field of international political sociology, for her book From Righteousness to Far Right: An Anthropological Rethinking of Critical Security Studies (2019).

Kirsty Robertson was awarded the 29th annual Melva J. Dwyer Award, presented to creators of exceptional reference or research tools relating to Canadian art and architecture by the Art Libraries Society of North America’s (ARLIS/NA) Canada Chapter, for her book Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums (2019).

The book Friends, Foes, and Furs: George Nelson’s Lake Winnipeg Journals, 1804–1822 edited by Harry W. Duckworth (2019) was awarded the Manitoba Book Awards 2020 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction, given to the best book of adult non-fiction by a Manitoba author.

Bonnie Morgan was awarded the Canadian Historical Association / Société historique du Canada’s 2020 Clio Prize – Atlantic Region, given for meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions to regional history, for her book Ordinary Saints: Women, Work, and Faith in Newfoundland (2019).

Unveiling the Nation: The Politics of Secularism in France and Quebec by Emily Laxer (2019) was awarded the Canadian Sociology Association’s 2020 John Porter Tradition of Excellence Book Award / Prix du livre John-Porter, recognizing scholarly work and contributions to the field of Canadian Sociology.

The Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction was awarded to Mark Kingwell by the Media Ecology Association (MEA) for his book Wish I Were Here: Boredom and the Interface (2019).

2020 Finalists

Selena Couture made the UBC Library and the Pacific BookWorld News Society shortlist for the 2020 Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize, recognizing the best scholarly book published by a Canadian author on a British Columbia subject, for her book Against the Current and Into the Light: Performing History and Land in Coast Salish Territories and Vancouver’s Stanley Park (2020).

Matthew Schnurr made the 2020 African Studies Association of the UK shortlist for the Fage and Oliver Prize, awarded for an outstanding original scholarly work on African issues, for his book Africa’s Gene Revolution: Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture (2019).

The following MQUP authors made the Canadian Historical Association shortlist for the 2020 François-Xavier Garneau Medal, honouring an outstanding Canadian contribution to historical research:

E.A. Heaman, Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada (2017)

Robert C.H. Sweeny, Why Did We Choose to Industrialize? Montreal, 1819-1849 (2015)

Brian Young, Patrician Families and the Making of Quebec: The Taschereaus and McCords (2014)

The following MQUP authors made the 2020 shortlist for the Assemblée nationale’s Prix du livre politique recognizing the quality and originality of books addressing Quebec politics: 

Alexandre Dumas, L’Église et la politique québécoise, de Taschereau à Duplessis (2019)

Emily Laxer, Unveiling the Nation: The Politics of Secularism in France and Quebec (2019)

Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt’s book Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada (2018) received an honourable mention from the CHA Affiliated Committees for the 2020 Canadian Committee on Women’s History Prizes for their English Language Book Prize, awarded to the best scholarly book published by a Canadian historian in women’s or gender history.

Donald Savoie made the 2020 shortlist for the Canadian Political Science Association 2020 Donald Smiley Prize, awarded for the best book relating to the study of government and politics in Canada, for his book Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions (2019).

For previous award winners visit the MQUP Awards Page >