Congratulations to Tina Loo and Leslie Dawn who were honoured by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences at its annual Scholarly Book Prize competition on November 1. Professor Dawn of the Department of Art at the University of Lethbridge was awarded the Raymond Klibansky Prize for the best English-language book in the humanities for his book National Visions, National Blindness. Professor Loo of the Department of History at the University of British Columbia won the Harold Adams Innis Prize for best English-lanaguage book in the social sciences for her book States of Nature (which also won the Canadian Historical Association’s Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for the best work of Canadian history.)

This marks the third consecutive year that a book published by UBC Press has been awarded one of these national prizes. Last year, José Igartua (professor of history at the Université du Québec à Montréal) won the Innis for The Other Quiet Revolution, and James Flath (Department of History, University of Western Ontario) took the Klibansky in 2006 for The Cult of Happiness.

Other books honoured in the last month include: Hunters at the Margin by John Sandlos, which won both the 2008 Clio Award for the North from the Canadian Historical Association and the 2008 Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Book Award from the Forest History Society, and Multicultural Education Policies in Canada and the United States by Reva Joshee and Lauri Johnson, which won the 2008 Critics Choice Award for 2008 from the American Educational Studies Association.

For more information on award-winning UBC Press authors and their books, visit our awards page.