Archive for the 'Awards' Category

Wilfrid Laurier University Press is pleased to announce that Veronica Strong-Boag has won the 2012 Canada Prize (Social Sciences) for her book Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (WLU Press, 2011). Considered a “benchmark for outstanding scholarly work,” the Canada Prize, worth $2,500 in each category, is awarded annually by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (CFHSS).

Fostering Nation? is also shortlisted for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, awarded by the Canadian Historical Association for the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past. The winner will be announced at the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences, which is being hosted jointly by Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo from May 26-June 2, 2012.

Fostering Nation? breaks new ground in the history of social welfare and the family. By offering the first-ever comprehensive look at how Canada cared for marginalized youngsters between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, it tells heart-breaking stories that were the reality for children in foster care, and serves as a reminder that children’s welfare cannot be divorced from that of their parents.

Veronica Strong-Boag is a professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her previous awards include the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize in Canadian History and, with Carole Gerson, the Raymond Klibansky Prize in the Humanities

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We are thrilled to bits here at Laurier Press that R. Bruce Elder has won the $20,000 Robert Motherwell Book Award for his book Harmony and Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century. The award is granted by the Dedalus Foundation and is given for an outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts. Bruce has published a number of books with Laurier Press, including The Body in Film, A Body of Vision, and The Films of Stan Brakhage in the American Tradition of Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and Charles Olson.

Bruce Elder is the program director at Ryerson for the Graduate Program in Communication and Culture, and in 2007, he received the Governor General’s Award in Media Arts. He is an absolute joy to work with, which makes us all the more pleased for him.

Tooting our own horn a bit, we are thrilled to be in the company of previous winners of this award, such as Cornell UP, University of California Press, Yale UP, and Abrams.

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Deena Rymhs has won Honorable Mention in the 2008 Gabrielle Roy Prize. Established in honour of the late Gabrielle Roy by the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures, this competition is open to works of criticism on Canadian or Québec literatures published anywhere in the world in English and French. Deena’s book, From the Iron House, identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in contemporary Aboriginal literature.

Here’s what Deena had to say about the award: “It is an honour to receive this recognition and to have my book in the company of some of the finest works of scholarship published on Canadian and Québécois writing. More importantly, I hope this award raises the profile of indigenous and incarcerated authors in this country.”

Congratulations from all of us at the press!

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