Federation Announces Winners of 2002 Book Prizes
(OTTAWA) - The Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is proud to announce the winners of its 2001-2002 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:
- Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Difference and the Constitution
of Canada (University of Toronto Press) for the Harold Adams
Innis Prize - for best English-language book in the Social Sciences
Professor Macklem, a graduate of McGill, Toronto, and Harvard, is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. His other publications include: The Security of Freedom: Essays on Canada's Anti-terrorism Bill (University of Toronto, 2001); and Canadian Constitutional Law 3rd edition (Emond Montgomery, 2003).
- Gervais Carpin, Étude du mode migratoire de la France
vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662) (Les éditions du Septentrion,
Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne) for the Prix Jean-Charles-Falardeau
- for best French-language book in the Social Sciences.
Dr. Carpin holds a PhD in History from l'Université Laval and is the Scientific Coordinator of the Centre interuniversitaire d'études sur les lettres, les arts et les traditions (CÉLAT) at l'Université Laval. He is also the author of Histoire d'un mot. L'ethonyme "Canadien" de 1535 à 1691 (Les éditions du Septentrion, Collection "Les cahiers du Septentrion").
- Marilyn Randall, Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship,
Profit, and Power (University of Toronto Press) for the
Raymond Klibansky Prize - for best English-language book in
the Humanities A graduate of the University of Toronto, Dr.
Randall is a Professor in the French Department of the University
of Western Ontario. She has also published Le context littéraire:
lecture pragmatique de Hubert Aquin et de Réjean Ducharme
(Le Préambule, 1990), and was co-editor, with Janet Paterson,
of Trou de mémoire by Hubert Aquin, Edition critique de l'oeuvre
d'Hubert Aquin (EDAQ) (Bibliothèque québécoise, 1993).
- Germain Lacasse, Le bonimenteur de vues animées
(Les éditions Nota bene / Mérdiens Klincksieck) for the Prix
Raymond-Klibansky - for best French-language book in the Humanities
Germain Lacasse holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from l'Université de Montréal, where he is an associate professor in film studies. He also lectures at l'Université Laval and l'Université du Québec à Montréal. He has published Le cinéma en histoires, (Méridiens Klincksieck/Nota bene, 1999), Marie de Kerstrat, (Ressac, 1987), and numerous articles on cinema for Canadian, American, and European scholarly journals
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 67 learned societies, 69 universities and colleges and over 24,000 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 Humanities and Social Sciences, 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
