Federation Announces Finalists for 2003-2004 Book Prizes

November 8, 2004 - Ottawa - Today the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences proudly announced the finalists for its 2003-2004 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 the National Archives Gatineau Preservation Centre in Gatineau, Québec, just outside of Ottawa, November 27 at 6 p.m.

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 Programme (ASPP), a programme 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 programme is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences represents 69 scholarly associations, 71 universities and colleges and over 30,000 researchers, practitioners and 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 further information, please contact:

Jody Ciufo, Associate Executive Director
(613) 238-6112 ext. 306

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

Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto), Welfare Hot Buttons: Women, Work and Social Policy Reform (University of Toronto Press)
Nancy Bouchier (McMaster University), For the Love of the Game : Amateur Sport in Small-Town Ontario 1838-1895 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Peter Eglin (Wilfrid Laurier University) and Stephen Hester (University of Wales, Bangor), The Montreal Massacre : A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis (Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
Rebecca Johnson (University of Victoria), Taxing Choices : The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (University of British Columbia Press)
John Weaver (McMaster University), The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900 (McGill-Queen's University Press)

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

Gilles Havard (CRHEU, Université de Paris VII), Empire et métissages : Indiens et Français dans le Pays d'en Haut, 1600-1715 (Éditions du Septentrion)
Jocelyne Murray (chercheuse autonome), Apprendre à lire et à compter. École et société en Mauricie, 1850-1900 (Éditions du Septentrion)
Marc Perreault (Université du Québec à Montréal), et Gilles Bibeau (Université de Montréal), La gang : une chimère à apprivoiser (Éditions du Boréal)
Geneviève Ribordy (Université Laval), " Faire les nopces " Le mariage chez la noblesse française (1375-1475) (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies)
Thierry Rodon (Carleton University), En partenariat avec l'État : Les expériences de cogestion des Autochtones du Canada (Les Presses de l'Université Laval / IQRC)

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

Kenneth Banks (Mars Hill College, North Carolina), Chasing Empire Across the Sea: Communications and the State in the French Atlantic, 1713-1763 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Frederick Barnard (Emeritus, University of Western Ontario), Herder on Nationality, Humanity, and History (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Penny Cousineau-Levine (University of Ottawa), Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Shelagh Grant (Trent University), Arctic Justice: On Trial for Murder, Pond Inlet, 1923 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Steven High (Nipissing University), Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 (University of Toronto Press)

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

Jean-Yves Bernard (Lakehead University), La genèse de l'expédition franco-britannique de 1956 en Egypte (Publication de la Sorbonne)
Louise Bienvenue (Université de Sherbrooke), Quand la jeunesse entre en scène : L'action catholique avant la Révolution tranquille (Éditions du Boréal)
Francine Couture (Université du Québec à Montréal), Exposer l'art contemporain du Québec : Discours d'intention et d'accompagnement (Centre de diffusion 3D)
Jean-Pierre Pinson (Université Laval), et Elisabeth Gallat-Morin (chercheuse autonome), La vie musicale en Nouvelle-France (Éditions du Septentrion)
Bruno Ramirez (Université de Montréal), La ruée vers le Sud : Migrations du Canada vers les Etats-Unis 1840-1930 (Éditions du Boréal)