Federation Announces Finalists for 2001-2002 Book Prizes

(OTTAWA) - Today the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences proudly announced the finalists for its 2001-2002 Scholarly Book Prizes. Twenty Canadian scholars are on the short lists for the four prizes 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 Library of Canada in Ottawa on November 23rd at 6:30 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 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, 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
Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(613) 238-6112 ext. 306
Visit our web site at: www.fedcan.ca

Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences 2001-2002 Scholarly Book Prizes - Lists of Finalists

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

Darin Barney, Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology (University of British Columbia Press)
Jo-Anne Fiske, Cis dideen kat - When the Plumes Rise: The Way of the Lake Babine Nation (University of British Columbia Press)
Roger Hayter, Flexible Crossroads: The Restructuring of BC's Forest Economy (University of British Columbia Press)
Martha Langford, Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Patrick Macklem, Indigenous Difference and the Constitution of Canada (University of Toronto Press)

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

Marc-André Bernier, Libertinage et figures du savoir. Rhétorique et roman libertin dans la France des Lumières (1734-1751) (Les Presses de l'Université Laval, L'Harmattan)
Georges Campeau, De l'assurance-chômage à l'assurance-emploi (Les Éditions du Boréal)
Gervais Carpin, Le Réseau du Canada. Étude du mode migratoire de la France vers la Nouvelle-France (1628-1662) (Les éditions du Septentrion, Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne)
Shenwen Li, Stratégies missionnaires des jésuites français en Nouvelle-France et en Chine au XVIIe siècle (Les Presses de l'Université Laval, L'Harmattan)

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

Jane L. Cook, Coalescence of Styles: The Ethnic Heritage of St. John River Valley Regional Furniture, 1763-1851 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Alison Conway, Private Interests: Women, Portraiture, and the Visual Culture of the English Novel, 1709-1791 (University of Toronto Press)
Alan MacEachern, Natural Selections: National Parks in Atlantic Canada, 1935-1970 (McGill-Queen's University Press)
Adele Perry, On the Edge of Empire: Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871 (University of Toronto Press)
Marilyn Randall, Pragmatic Plagiarism: Authorship, Profit, and Power (University of Toronto Press)

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

Annick Chapdelaine et Gillian Lane-Mercier, Faulkner: Une expérience de retraduction (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal)
Frédéric Charbonneau, Les Silences de l'histoire (Les Presses de l'Université Laval)
Lucie Desjardins, Le corps parlant. Savoirs et représentation des passions au XVIIe siècle (Les Presses de l'Université Laval, L'Harmattan)
Germain Lacasse, Le bonimenteur de vues animées (Les éditions Nota bene, Méridiens Klincksieck)
Lucie K. Morisset, La Mémoire du paysage (Les Presses de l'Université Laval)