Media Release
2 December 2004
Federation Announces Winners of the 2003-2004 Book Prizes
(OTTAWA) - The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to announce the winners of its 2003-2004 Scholarly Book Prizes for 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. This year's winners are:
- Rebecca Johnson, Taxing Choices: The Intersection
of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (University
of British Columbia Press), winner of the Harold Adams Innis
Prize for best English-language book in the Social Sciences.
Professor Johnson is a member of the Faculty of Law at the
University of Victoria, and has written extensively on matters
of gender, culture and law. She holds an SJD from the University
of Michigan, as well an MBA from the University of Alberta,
and a degree in Music from the University of Calgary.
- Gilles Havard, Empire et métissages. Indiens
et Français dans le Pays d'en Haut, 1600-1715 (Éditions
du Septentrion / Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne),
winner of the Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau for best French-language
book in the Social Sciences. Mr. Havard is a graduate of the
Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, and teaches at the
secondary school level in Paris. He previously authored the
prize-winning Histoire de l'Amérique française.
- Steven High, Industrial Sunset: The Making of
North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto
Press), winner of the Raymond Klibansky Prize for best English-language
book in the Humanities. Professor High is a member of the
Department of History at Nipissing University and conducts
teaching and research on various aspects of North American
history, including the social and economic impact of industrial
change on women, aboriginal peoples, and communities. He holds
a PhD in History from the University of Ottawa.
- Louise Bienvenue, Quand la jeunesse entre en scène. L'action catholique avant la Révolution tranquille (Éditions du Boréal), winner of the Prix Raymond-Klibansky for best French-language book in the Humanities. Professor Bienvenue is a member of the Department of History and Political Science at the Université de Sherbrooke, and has written on the Action catholique movement and the nursing profession in Québec. She holds a PhD in History from the Université du Québec à Montréal, and did post-doctoral studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Established in 1990, the Scholarly Book Prizes are administered by the Federation's Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP), a programme which provides financial support for the publication of manuscripts authored by Canadian scholars. This programme is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences represents 70 learned societies, 71 universities and colleges and over 30,000 researchers. 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 Social Sciences and Humanities, the largest academic gathering of its kind in North America.
For further information, please contact:
Jody Ciufo, Director of Public Affairs
(613) 238-6112 ext. 306
