Media Release
17 October 2007

Federation Announces Finalists for 2006-2007 Book Prizes

(OTTAWA) -- The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to announce the finalists for its 2006-2007 Scholarly Book Prizes. These four prizes are awarded to the best Federation-supported books published in the humanities and social sciences. Named after the distinguished Canadian scholars Harold Adams Innis, Jean-Charles Falardeau, and Raymond Klibansky, two prizes are awarded in each field, one for best work in French and one for best work in English. The winners will be announced at a reception at 6 PM on November 24 in Ottawa.

Established in 1990, Scholarly Book Prizes have been awarded to such acclaimed Canadian researchers as Yvan Lamonde, Evelyn Cobley, Wallace Clement, John Myles, Pierre Camu and Philip Resnick. The Prizes recognise Canadian excellence in research and writing in the humanities and the social sciences, and acknowledge the significant contribution that Canadian scholarly books make to the advancement of knowledge.

These awards are administered by the Federation’s Aid to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP), a program which provides financial support for the publication of manuscripts authored by Canadian scholars. A cross-Canada jury of eminent scholars selects the best ASPP-funded books published each year. This program is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences represents 66 scholarly associations, 69 universities and colleges, and over 50,000 researchers, practitioners and graduate students. The Federation works to communicate the value of research and scholarship in the human sciences. It also manages the permanent secretariat of the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, which is the largest academic gathering of its kind in North America.

A list of this year’s finalists can be found on the following page.

For more information:
Caitlin Kealey, Communications Officer
(613) 238-6112, ext. 353
ckealey@fedcan.ca
www.fedcan.ca

Harold Adams Innis Prize -- for best English-language book in the Social Sciences

Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University). The Catholic Origins of Québec’s Quiet Revolution, 1931-1970 (MQUP)

Matthew Hayday (University of Guelph). Bilingual Today, United Tomorrow: Official Languages in Education and Canadian Federalism (MQUP)

José Igartua (Université du Québec à Montréal). The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-71 (UBCP)

Brian Richardson (University of Hawai’i). Longitude and Empire: How Captain Cook’s Voyages Changed the World (UBCP)

Peter Russell (University of Toronto). Recognizing Aboriginal Title: The Mabo Case and Indigenous Resistance to English-Settler Colonialism (UTP)

Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau -- for best French-language book in the Social Sciences

Josette Brun (Université Laval). Vie et mort du couple en Nouvelle-France. Québec et Louisbourg au XVIIIe siècle (MQUP)

Caroline-Isabelle Caron (Queen’s University). Se créer des ancêtres. Un parcours généalogique nord-américain au XIXe et XXe siècles (Éditions du Septentrion)

Marie-Aimée Cliche (Université du Québec à Montréal). Maltraiter ou punir? La violence envers les enfants dans les familles québécoises, 1850-1969 (Éditions du Boréal)

Robert Gagnon (Université du Québec à Montréal). Questions d’égouts. Santé publique, infrastructures et urbanisation à Montréal au XIXe siècle (Éditions du Boréal)

James Lee (University of Michigan) et Feng Wang (University of California, Irvine). La population chinoise. Mythes et réalités (PUM)

Raymond Klibansky Prize -- for best English-language book in the Humanities

Daniel Coleman (McMaster University). White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada (UTP)

Kyla Madden (Queen’s University). Forkhill Protestants and Forkhill Catholics, 1787-1858 (MQUP)

Desmond Manderson (McGill University). Proximity, Levinas, and the Soul of Law (MQUP)

Patrick O’Neill (Queen’s University). Polyglot Joyce: Fictions of Translation (UTP)

Rod Preece (Wilfrid Laurier University). Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution: The Historical Status of Animals (UBCP)

Sherry Simon (Concordia University). Translating Montreal: Episodes in the Life of a Divided City (MQUP)

Prix Raymond-Klibansky -- for best French-language book in the Humanities

Tara Collington (Université de Waterloo). Lectures chronotopiques. Espace, temps et genres romanesques (XYZ Éditeur)

Sylvain David (Université Concordia). Cioran. Un héroïsme à rebours (PUM)

Élyse Dupras (Collège de Maisonneuve). Diables et saints. Rôle des diables dans les mystères hagiographiques français (Librairie DROZ)

Dominique Perron (Université de Calgary). Le nouveau roman de l’énergie nationale. Analyse des discours promotionnels d’Hydro-Québec de 1964 à 1997 (UCP)