April and May Round-up

Highlights from the month of April and May.

Awards:

• Residential Schools and Reconciliation by J.R. Miller was on the shortlist for CHA’s Sir John A. Macdonald Prize.
• Patricia Meredith’s and James Darroch’s Stumbling Giants was awarded the 2018 Donner Prize.
• “I Wish to Keep a Record” by Gail Campbell won the Canadian Committee on Women’s History Book prize.
• Jeffers Lennox’s Homelands and Empires won the 2018 Clio Atlantic Prize.
• Peter Russell’s Canada’s Odyssey won the 2018 Donald Smiley Prize. Linda Trimble’s Ms. Prime Minister was also on the shortlist for this award.
• Constructing Policy Change by Linda A. White was shortlisted for CPSA’s Prize in Comparative Politics.
• Catholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II by Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar won the Canadian Catholic Historical Association’s G.E. Clerk Award.
• Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight’s Female Suicide Bombings won the Women’s and Gender Studies et Recherches Féministes (WGSRF) Outstanding Scholarship Prize. Caroline S. Hossein’s Politicized Microfinance and Obesity in Canada an edited volume by Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail, and Wendy Mitchinson received honorable mentions from the jury.
• Peter Russell’s Canada’s Odyssey the 2018 John T. Saywell Prize awarded by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.
• Donald Creighton by David Wright and Making a Global City by Robert Vipond were awarded the Ontario Historical Society’s Donald Creighton Award and Joseph Brant award respectively.

Conferences:

• Daniel Quinlan and Matt Buntin represented UTP at the International Studies Association’s annual conference in San Francisco.
• Jodi Lewchuk showcased our Urban Studies list at the Urban Affair Association’s annual meeting. She also represented UTP at the Association of American Geographers annual conference in New Orleans.
• Meg Patterson was in New York City for the American Educational Research Association’s annual conference.
• Stephen Shapiro represented the press at the annual meeting of the Association for the Studies of Nationalities.
• Anna Del Col, Natalie Fingerhut, and Suzanne Rancourt were in Kalamazoo, MI for the International Congress on Medieval Studies.
• Jodi Lewchuk was in Los Angeles for the annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.\
• Meg Patterson showcased our Health and Humanities list at the Indigenous Health Conference in Mississauga.
• We showcased our latest social sciences and humanities titles at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences in Regina, SK.
• Jane Kelly represented the press at Book Expo America in New York City.

Media Highlights:

• The Saskatoon Express published a cover story on Prairie Fairies.
• The Globe and Mail talked with Rick Nason about his book It’s Not Complicated.
• “From Wall Street to Bay Street by Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin moves at a smart clip with quirky research” wrote Blacklocks Reporter.
• Joe Martin launched From Wall Street to Bay Street on Bay Street, at a highly successful event hosted by Ben McNally Book’s, on April 24.
• Linda Duxbury outlined the challenges of elder care she explores in her book Something’s Got to Give during an episode of The Agenda With Steve Paikin on TVOntario.
• PEN America ran a feature profile of our groundbreaking graphic novel, Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye
• Ted Morton reviewed Fiscal Federalism and Equalization Policy In Canada for The Calgary Herald.
• Luca Cottini presented his book The Art Of Objects in #Milan during the #MilanArtWeek
• The Vancouver Sun reviewed University Commons Divided by Peter MacKinnon .
• “University Commons Divided [by Peter MacKinnon] pulls no punches. It is frank and unapologetic,” writes Holly Doan, in a review for Blacklocks Reporter.
• Canada’s History Magazine conducted a feature interview with Joe Martin about his book From Wall Street To Bay Street.
• Investing.com reviewed From Wall Street to Bay Street.
• Canada’s History Society and The University of Winnipeg Foundation hosted a book launch for From Wall Street to Bay Street.
• Robert Fulford gave a shout out to Valerie J. Korinek’s Prairie Fairies in his column for The National Post.
• The Financial Post interviewed Pat Meredith and James Darroch about their Donner Prize-winning book Stumbling Giants.
• The Ukrainian Weekly interviewed Mark Andryczyk, author of The Intellectual As Hero in 1990S Ukrainian Fiction.
• In a review for The Times Literary Supplement, Gerri Kimber wrote “I can’t imagine that a wittier book than Tim Conley’s Useless Joyce has ever been written about such complex subject matter – namely what it means when we speak, in relation to the works of Joyce, of the “uses” of a text, and in particular the distinction between “the liberal arts” and the “useful arts.”

New Releases:

• The Charter Debates: The Special Joint Committee on the Constitution, 1980-81, and the Making of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms edited by Adam M. Dodek
• Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art edited by Andrea Andersson
• Samson’s Cords: Imposing Oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler by Alex Garganigo
• Biology of Sex by Alex Mills
• Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney
• Do Men Mother? Second Edition by Andrea Doucet
• Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry by Anne C. McCarthy
• Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Third Edition edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein
• Reading the Middle Ages Volume I: From c.300 to c.1150 edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein
• Reading the Middle Ages Volume II: From c.900 to c.1500 edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein
• A Short History of the Middle Ages, Fifth Edition edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein
• A Short History of the Middle Ages, Volume I: From c.300 to c.1150, Fifth Edition edited by Barbara H. Rosenwein
• Cognitive Disability Aesthetics: Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference by Benjamin Fraser
• Remaking Policy: Scale, Pace, and Political Strategy in Health Care Reform by Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
• The Order of Canada: Genesis of an Honours System, Second Edition by Christopher McCreery
• Challenging Theocracy: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics edited by David Edward Tabachnick, Toivo Koivukoski, and Hermínio Meireles Teixeira
• The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 2472 to 2634 by Desiderius Erasmus
• Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, Critique Edited by Desmond Manderson
• John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician, The Old Chieftain by Donald Creighton
• Federalism in Action: The Devolution of Canada’s Public Employment Service, 1995-2015 by Donna E. Wood
• Working towards Equity: Disability Rights Activism and Employment in Late Twentieth-Century Canada by Dustin Galer
• Tracing Ochre: Changing Perspectives on the Beothuk edited by Fiona Polack
• The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini by Giacomo da Lentini
• Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food, Second Edition by Gillian Crowther
• Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s by Jane Nicholas
• Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada edited by Janine Brodie
• Objects Observed: The Poetry of Things in Twentieth-Century France and America by John C. Stout
• Nova Scotia: A Health System Profile by Katherine Fierlbeck
• Miscarriages of Justice in Canada: Causes, Responses, Remedies by Kathryn M. Campbell
• Becoming Strong: Impoverished Women and the Struggle to Overcome Violence by Laura Huey and Ryan Broll
• Work Your Career: Get What You Want from Your Social Sciences or Humanities PhD by Loleen Berdahl and Jonathan Malloy
• The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 by Luca Cottini
• European Magic and Witchcraft: A Reader by Edited by Martha Rampton
• Deeply Rooted in the Present by Mary Lorena Kenny
• Selling Out or Buying In?: Debating Consumerism in Vancouver and Victoria, 1945-1985 by Michael Dawson
• From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840-1940 by Michelle J. Smith, Kristine Moruzi, and Clare Bradford
• Trilingual Joyce: The Anna Livia Variations by Patrick O’Neill
• Adventures in Blogging: Public Anthropology and Popular Media by Paul Stoller
• The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in Eighteenth-Century British Literature and Culture by Robbie Richardson
• Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015 by Sara J. Brenneis
• Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlands: Kyiv, 1800-1905 by Serhiy Bilenky
• One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario by Steven High
• Charlotte Lennox: An Independent Mind by Susan Carlile
• Power, Politics, and Principles: Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948 by Taylor Hollander
• Displacing Blackness: Planning, Power, and Race in Twentieth-Century Halifax by Ted Rutland
• Prairie Fairies: A History of Queer Communities and People in Western Canada, 1930-1985 by Valerie J. Korinek