Federation Announces Winners for 2000-2001 Book Prizes

(OTTAWA) - Today the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (HSSFC) proudly announced the 4 winners of its 2000-2001 book prizes. These prizes are awarded annually by the Federation to the best books in the fields of the Humanities and the Social Sciences. This year's winners were announced at a reception at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa on November 24th.

In 1990, the Federation established the Scholarly Book Prizes to recognise excellence in research and writing in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and to acknowledge the significant contribution that Canadian scholarly books make towards the advancement of knowledge.

These awards are administered by the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme (ASPP), a programme which supports the publication of manuscripts authored by Canadian scholars. A distinguished cross-Canada jury selects the best books published in one year. To be eligible, titles must have received financial assistance from the ASPP. This programme is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

The Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, which administers the ASPP, represents 67 learned societies, 69 universities and colleges and over 24,000 researchers. It also manages the permanent secretariat of the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, which is the largest academic gathering of its kind in North America.

A list of this year's winners can be found on the following page:

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

Stephen Duguid, Can Prisons Work? The Prisoner as Object and Subject in Modern Corrections (University of Toronto Press)

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

Daniel Dagenais, La fin de la famille moderne: Significations des transformations contemporaines de la famille (Les Presses de l'Université de Laval)

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

Veronica Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson, Paddling Her Own Canoe: Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (University of Toronto Press)

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

Yvan Lamonde, Histoire sociale des idées au Québec (1760-1896): Vol. I (Les Éditions Fides)

Additional Information:
Douglas Lauriault
Director of Public Affairs
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada
(613) 238-6112, extension 306