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MQUP congratulates Thomas J. Courchene on being awarded the 2018/2019 Donnor Prize for his book Indigenous Nationals, Canadian Citizens: From First Contact to Canada 150 and Beyond. Courchene is professor emeritus in the School of Policy Studies and an adjunct professor in the economics department at Queen’s University. This … Read More >

The selections for the 2019 AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show have been announced. Attracting more than 600 submissions overall, MQUP is honoured to have five covers in the Jackets and Covers category. Congratulations to our industrious production team, to the masterful David Drummond (Salamander Hill Design), and to … Read More >

Below we present another installment of our monthly blog segment, the MQUP Top 5. Each month we ask an MQUP author to compile a list of five books that inspired, informed, or pair well with their most recent publication with us.

For April, Adrian McKerracher shares five works that in some way influenced … Read More >

We are excited to introduce a new monthly segment on our blog: the MQUP Top 5. Each month a different MQUP author will compile a list of five books that inspired, informed, or pair well with their most recent publication with us.

For March, Lucas Richert shares his five selections for his new book, Read More >

We are pleased to announce two MQUP authors are finalists for the 2019 Canada Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Elaine Craig, Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal System, and Marlene Goldman, Forgotten: Narratives of Age-Related Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease in Canada.

The Canada Prizes are awarded annually to … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s University Press is sad to acknowledge the passing of one of our authors, Dr. Sandra Alfoldy.

Sandra was a trailblazer, holding the first university position in Canada devoted to the study of craft, and expanding the boundaries of arts research. These efforts resulted in MQUP’s first book with her, Read More >

Join Michael A. Peterman for the Eastern tour of his new book, Delicious Mirth: The Life and Times of James McCarroll. Between February and April, the author will appear at six separate events including a talk at the cemetary where James McCarroll is buried. Click on any of the links below to learn … Read More >

McGill-Queen’s University Press (MQUP) and University of Toronto Press (UTP) announce that MQUP will be distributed in Canada by UTP’s Distribution division, effective February 1, 2019.

Last shipments of MQUP from Georgetown Terminal Warehouse is Friday, January 18, 2019. UTP will accept returns from January 21, 2019 and will commence shipments February 1, 2019.

Distribution of MQUP’S publishing … Read More >

As the long-overdue translation of Ernő Munkácsi’s How It Happened: Documenting the Tragedy of Hungarian Jewry arrives in bookstores, Nina Munk and Ferenc Laczó discuss the author’s controversial role as a member of the Jewish Council, Hungary’s lingering denials of complicity in the Holocaust, and why this powerful memoir is more relevant than ever.

Portrait of Ernő … Read More >