Beneath the Surface: Finding Common Ground in Canada’s Most Distinctive Province
Robert Calderisi offers an intimate look into the sensitivities and strengths of Quebec, a society that has grown accustomed to being misunderstood.
May 8, 2019
Social Sciences
The Politics of Policymaking in Canada
Author Jared J. Wesley discusses his own experience of working as a public servant, and how The Public Servant’s Guide to Government in Canada came to fruition.
April 4, 2019
The Sentence: The Transformative Power of Storytelling in Diagnosis
Author Annemarie Jutel shares how thinking about diagnosis as a story gives us opportunities, suggesting that a re-narration may make the experience of illness something easier to bear.
March 28, 2019
Toronto: A City of Neighbourhoods
In today’s stop on the University Press Week Blog Tour, our Director of Sales and Marketing, Jane Kelly, discusses the many neighbourhoods that constitute the city of Toronto, and how UTP publishes for and about those neighbourhoods.
November 14, 2018
The Heritage Book Project: Selected Politics Books to Stand the Test of Time
In this contribution to the University Press Week Blog Tour, Harriet Kim provides a selection of interesting politics titles that she recently brought back into print as part of UTP’s Heritage Book Project.
November 13, 2018
New Book Broadens the Lens for Teaching About Gendered Violence
Authors Chris Bruckert and Tuulia Law discuss their new book Women and Gendered Violence in Canada.
October 25, 2018
Why The Canadian Financial System Did Well During The 2008 Credit Crisis
Guest post by Joe Martin, co-author of ‘From Wall Street to Bay Street’.
October 12, 2018
Digging Down: The Deep Roots of Canada’s Policy-Making Process
Guest post by Taylor Hollander, author of ‘Power, Politics, and Principles’.
August 15, 2018
Deeply Rooted in the Present: Heritage, Memory, and Identity in Brazilian Quilombos
Asking what it means to be quilombola (descendants of African slaves) in the twenty-first century. Guest post by Mary Lorena Kenny, author of the newest ethnography in our popular Teaching Culture series.
June 26, 2018
Ideas for Building Career Development into PhD Seminars
Author Loleen Berdahl provides a list of activities for faculty who wish to use Work Your Career in their PhD seminars or in non-credit, stand-alone professional development seminars offered to students.
June 19, 2018