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Ottawa - March 25 - Four of the country's top scholars in the humanities and social sciences have won the 2010 prizes from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, which celebrate the best in scholarly publishing.
"These works represent some of the best that our disciplines have to offer," stated Federation president Noreen Golfman. "I am truly proud of the Federation's role in supporting, nurturing and now honouring these worthy scholars."
"The annual Scholarly Book Prizes remind us of the critical role that academic publishing has in Canadian society" stated Stuart Woods, Editor of the Quill and Quire - Canada's premier journal of publishing. "We turn to our nation's scholars and writers for answers when we need to understand our history, identity and culture."
The 2010 Harold Adams Innis award for the best English-language work in the social sciences will be presented to John Lutz for Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations, published by the University of British Columbia Press. A professor of History at the University of Victoria, Lutz explores the roots of Aboriginal economic marginalization in British Columbia and works to break down the mythology surrounding settler and aboriginal relationships in Canada.
The Prix Jean-Charles Falardeau for the best French-language work in the social sciences will be awarded to Michel Seymour, professor in the Department of Philosophy at the Université de Montréal, for his work De la tolérance à la reconnaissance, published by Éditions du Boréal. Seymour's topical work explores the complex relationships and tensions that exist between individual and collective rights - providing readers with rich perspectives on tolerance and pluralism.
The 2010 Raymond Klibansky award for best English-language work in the humanities will be awarded to David Wilson, professor of History and Celtic Studies at the University of Toronto, for Thomas D'Arcy McGee, Volume 1: Passion, Reason, and Politics, 1825-1857, published by McGill-Queen's University Press. Wilson explores the life of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, exposing the reader to the complex and turbulent times that shaped McGee's early political life. This is a landmark work on a Canadian icon.
The Prix Raymond-Klibansky for the best French-language work in the humanities will be awarded to Pierre Popovic, professor in the Department of French Literature at the University of Montreal, for his work Imaginaire social et folie littéraire, published by the University of Montreal Press. Popovic takes readers on a tour of the fascinating life of a mostly forgotten writer, Paulin Gagne, providing an interesting view into the changing place on literature in the 19th century.
Each year the Scholarly Book Prizes recognize the best academic works funded through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP). Acknowledging the important role that long-form scholarly work plays in advancing knowledge in the humanities and social sciences, the ASPP helps to ensure that publishers have the resources needed to make available these works of significant scholarly merit. The ASPP is administered by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences on behalf of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
The awards will be presented at a ceremony to be held in Ottawa on March 27, 2010.
About the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Representing more than 50,000 researchers and graduate students in 69 scholarly associations, 75 universities and colleges, and seven affiliates, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences is the national voice of the research community in these disciplines.
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