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Scholarly books can transform processes, minds, and cultures. By publishing work of scholarly integrity in various formats, skillfully edited, designed, produced, and marketed, we participate in this transformation and advance new developments in scholarly discourse, contribute to education within and beyond the university, and reflect both our local and global community through the world of ideas.
Founded in 1974, Wilfrid Laurier University Press has established a reputation for excellence in scholarly publishing in the areas of history, literature, sociology, social work, life writing, film and media studies, aboriginal studies, women’s studies, philosophy, and religious studies. We publish 28—30 titles a year and have over 220 titles in print.
We have been typesetting books electronically since 1984, and in 1994 became one of the first scholarly publishers in Canada to establish a Web presence. We have digitized our backlist, and our electronic books appear through netLibrary, Questia, Ebrary, MyiLibrary and Gibson Library Services/Canadian Electronic Library. We are also participants in Google Print.
Our commitment to scholarly communication continues after publication with worldwide marketing and distribution and ongoing contact and cooperation with our authors. We have international distribution and sales representation and a presence at national and international book fairs and academic meetings.
We have co-publishing partnerships with a range of organizations working with ideas, including the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religion, the Centre for International Governance Innovation, the Association for Bahá’í Studies, and the Toronto International Film Festival. We are members of the Association of American University Presses, the Association of Canadian University Presses (and through them, the International Publishers Association), the Association of Canadian Publishers, the Organization of Book Publishers of Ontario, and the Canadian Booksellers Association. We provide prepress, typographic, subscription, and fulfillment services to a range of scholarly journals.
We welcome proposals in the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. We publish scholarly monographs and collections, trade books based on sound scholarship, and textbooks. We do not generally publish original fiction or poetry, children’s books, conference proceedings, or unrevised theses.
Awards
Our titles have won or been short-listed for a number of awards:
- Manitoba's Historical Society’s Margaret McWilliams Medal (2002, 2008)
- Laura Jamieson Prize awarded by the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW) (2003 winner)
- Jewish Book Award for Best Book in Canadian Jewish History (1998 winner)
- Society for English Studies (ESSE) Book Award for Cultural Studies (2006 winner)
- Canadian Jewish Book Award for Best Holocaust Memoir (1999 winner)
- Nacham Sokol-Chaim Yoel and Mollie Halberstadt Award for Scholarship: Biblical/Rabbinic from the Helen and Stan Vine Annual Canadian Jewish Book Awards (2006 winner)
- Canadian Society of Biblical Studies F.W. Beare Book Award (2002)
- Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing (1999 winner)
- Wilfred Eggleston Award for Non-Fiction (Alberta Book Awards)
- Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Alberta Book Awards)
- Canadian Policy Research Outstanding Research Contribution Award (2001)
- Donald Smiley Prize (2001)
- Canadian Women’s Studies Association Book Award (2002), 2003)
- Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2003)
- ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year in Autobiography/Memoir (2002), (2003), (2007); Body, Mind and Spirit (2003); Historical Fiction (2003); General Fiction (2007); Religion (2008); Art (2008)
- Harold Adams Innis Prize for best English-language book in the Social Sciences
- Grand Prix du Livre de la Ville de Sherbrooke (2006)
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction (1998)
- Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for Best Book in Canadian History (1998, 2007)
- Raymond Klibansky Prize for Best Book in the Humanities (SSHRC) (1997-1998), (2007-2008), (2009)
- Grant MacEwan Author’s Award (2004)
- CHOICE Magazine (ALA) Outstanding Academic Title (2000); (2006); (2009)
- Gabrielle Roy Prize (2008), (2009), (2009), (2010), (2010)
- Robert Motherwell Book Award for outstanding publication in the history and criticism of modernism in the arts (2009)
- Canadian History of Education Association 2006-2008 Founders' Prize for English-language book/anthology