Highlights from the months of June and July.

Awards:

• Johannes Remy’s Brothers or Enemies was awarded the Ivan Franko International Prize of 2018.
• French Écocritique by Stephanie Posthumus is on the shortlist for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize.

Conferences:

• Daniel Quinlan represented UTP at the Law and Society Association’s annual conference in Toronto.
• Anne Brackenbury and Jodi Lewchuk presented our sociology list at the World Congress of Sociology in Toronto.

Media Highlights:

• A launch for Steven High's One Job Town took place in Sturgeon Falls on June 9.
• The North Bay Nugget ran an excerpt from High’s book.
• Northern Ontario Business interviewed High about his research for One Job Town.
• The Saskatoon Express ran a cover story on how Valerie Korinek’s research for Prairie Fairies was inspired by a message from a colleague on a post-it note.
• Global TV News Saskatoon ran a profile of Korinek and Prairie Fairies.
• Toronto’s Albany Club hosted a launch for From Wall Street To Bay Street by Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin.
• The Globe and Mail interviewed Rick Nason about his book It's Not Complicated.
• The Globe and Mail interviewed Luciara Nardon about Working in a Multicultural World.
• Prairie Fairies by Valerie J. Korinek landed on Chronicle of Higher Education's Weekly Book List for the week of July 6.
• Gentrifier by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill was featured in a piece on the tone deaf marketing of gentrifying neighbourhoods in The Philadelphia Inquirer.
• Christopher Alcantara talked about his latest book A Quiet Evolution with Western News.
• "Miscarriages of Justice In Canada is a darkly compelling book not because it is sensational, but because it is so matter of fact," writes Holly Doan, in a review for Blacklocks Reporter.

New Releases:

• Cultures of the Fragment: Uses of the Iberian Manuscript, 1100-1600 by Heather Bamford.
• Queering Urban Justice: Queer of Colour Formations in Toronto edited by Jin Haritaworn, Ghaida Moussa, and Syrus Marcus Ware, with Río Rodríguez.
• Preaching Apocrypha in Anglo-Saxon England by Brandon W. Hawk.
• New Brunswick before the Equal Opportunity Program: History through a Social Work Lens by Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda M. Turner.
• Writing by Ear: Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel by Marilia Librandi.
• Erasmus and His Books by Egbertus Van Gulik | Translated by J.C. Grayson and edited by James K. McConica and Johannes Trapman.
• Regulating Professions: The Emergence of Professional Self-Regulation in Four Canadian Provinces by Tracey L. Adams.
• Geometry of the Passions: Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use by Remo Bodei | Translated by Gianpiero W. Doebler.
• Aristotle's Science of Matter and Motion by Christopher Byrne.
• Machiavelli and the Politics of Democratic Innovation by Christopher Holman.
• Iberianism and Crisis: Spain and Portugal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Robert Patrick Newcomb.

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

Highlights from the month of March.

Awards:

• Unbound: Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home by Lisa Grekul and Lindy Ledohowski won the 2018 Kobzar Literary Award.
• Caroline Shenaz Hossein's Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas won the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award for the year 2018.
•  An Exceptional Law by Dennis Molinaro, Helter-Shelter by Prashan Ranasinghe, Indigenous Women's Writing and the Cultural Study of Law by Cheryl Suzack, The Constitution in a Hall of Mirrors by David E. Smith, and The Technoscientific Witness of Rape by Andrea Quinlan are on the shortlist for the 2018 CLSA Book Prize.

Conferences:

• Mark Thompson, acquisitions editor, represented the press at the annual meeting of the Society of Cinema and Media Studies.
• Natalie Fingerhut (acquisitions editor) and Suzanne Rancourt (executive editor) attended the annual conference of the Renaissance Society of America in New Orleans, LA.

Media Highlights:

• The producers of Context with Lorna Dueck on Global TV interviewed Ashesh Mukerjee about his book The Internet Trap. The piece is scheduled to air on Tuesday, April 10.
• www.publicnow.com profiled Paula Salvio and her book The Story-Takers: Public Pedagogy, Transitional Justice, and Italy's Non-Violent Protest against the Mafia
• The Australian Independent Media (AIM) Network afforded This Is Not a Piece Pipe by Dale Turner a prominent spot in their three-part feature on aboriginal-settler relations, The Greener Grass (Somewhere).
• To mark the one-year anniversary of The Slow Professor’s publication, University Affairs ran a feature look at the remarkable popularity of Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber’s treatise.
• Annmarie Adams, professor of architecture and social studies of medicine, McGill University, wrote a similar reconsideration of The Slow Professor for Times Higher Education.
• National Book Network interviewed Laurie Marhoefer about her book Sex and the Weimar Republic.
• www.theflorentine.net profiled one of our perennial bestsellers, Pellegrino Artusi's 1891 classic Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well, and declared that it avoids the customary pitfalls of culinary translations.

New Releases:

• Homophobia in the Hallways: Heterosexism and Transphobia in Canadian Catholic Schools by Tonya D. Callaghan
• Compelling God: Theories of Prayer in Anglo-Saxon England by Stephanie Clark
• European Union Governance and Policy Making: A Canadian Perspective edited by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Achim Hurrelmann, and Amy Verdun
• The Suburban Land Question: A Global Survey by Richard Harris and Ute Lehrer
• From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian Finance by Christopher Kobrak and Joe Martin
• Fashioning the Canadian Landscape: Essays on Travel Writing, Tourism, and National Identity in the Pre-Automobile Era edited by J.I. Little
• Federalism and Decentralization in Health Care: A Decision Space Approach edited by Gregory P. Marchildon and Thomas J. Bossert
• Golden Fruit: A Cultural History of Oranges in Italy by Cristina Mazzoni
• Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture by Kirk Melnikoff
• Turkish Guest Workers in Germany: Hidden Lives and Contested Borders, 1960s to 1980s by Jennifer A. Miller
• Lacan with the Philosophers by Ruth Ronen

Here's what we were up to last month:

Awards:

• Cristian Berco's From Body to Community: Venereal Disease and Society in Baroque Spain was awarded the 2017 EAHMH book award by the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health.
• Dr. Alice Kuzniar's The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism was awarded the Hans Walz Prize in Stuttgart.

Conferences:

• Our European History and Slavic Studies acquisitions editor, Stephen Shapiro, was at The 2017 ASEEES Annual Convention in Chicago, IL from November 9-12, 2017.
• Our History Editor in Higher Education, Natalie Fingerhut, and Editorial Assistant Julia Cadney both attended the History of Science Society annual meeting in Toronto, November 9-12, 2017.
• Len Husband, acquisitions editor for Canadian and Native History, Philosophy, and History, had some really productive meetings at the annual meeting for American Academy for Religion in Boston, MA from November 18-21, 2017; we look forward to adding many more titles to our Lonergan Studies series.
• Anne Brackenbury, Jodi Lewchuk, and Kristopher Gies represented the press at the 116th meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Washington, D.C. from November 29 - December 3, 2017. Anne also participated in a panel on Drawing Culture: or the Art of Ethnography in Graphic Form: The Making of Lissa, the first title in our ethnoGRAPHIC series.

Media Highlights:

• The Osgoode Society hosted a launch for An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919-1936 by Dennis Molinaro at Convocation Hall.
• Blacklocks Reporter reviewed Residential Schools and Reconciliation by J.R. Miller.
• Ron Hawker gave three talks in November, based on his book Yakuglas' Legacy: The Art and Times of Charlie James, at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
• The Globe and Mail's Mark Medley talked with Gillian Roberts and mentioned her book Prizing Literature in a feature piece about the current glut of literary awards in Canada.
• As part of University Press Week, the blog 49th Shelf showcased Jane Nicholas's forthcoming book Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s.
• Ron Rubin's award-winning study Kouchibouguac: Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park featured prominently in The Globe and Mail 's feature-length profile of 88 year-old squatter and "N.B. Rebel" Jackie Vautour's epic battle to secure the land rights for the National Park.
• Le Devoir reviewed Combating Poverty: Quebec's Pursuit of a Distinctive Welfare State by Axel van den Berg, Charles Plante, Hicham Raïq, Christine Proulx, and Sam Faustmann.
• As part of the "U of T in Your Neighbourhood" series, Robert Vipond gave a talk based on his book Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity at Old Mill Toronto.

New Releases:

• Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles' A Quiet Evolution: The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada is now available in paperback.
• Remember the recent incident at Hague? This: A Conviction in Question: The First Trial at the International Criminal Court  will take you inside the International Criminal Court.
• Read how Canada’s Confederation captured the imaginations of people around the world in the 1860s. Globalizing Confederation: Canada and the World in 1867
• In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.
• Securitized Citizens: Canadian Muslims’ Experiences of Race Relations and Identity Formation Post–9/11
• Sovereignty's Entailments: First Nation State Formation in the Yukon
• In the Children’s Best Interests: Unaccompanied Children in American-Occupied Germany, 1945-1952.
• Chaucer’s Squire’s Tale, Franklin’s Tale, and Physician’s Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 to 2005
• Long Night at the Vepsian Museum: The Forest Folk of Northern Russia and the Struggle for Cultural Survival
• First in the all-new ethnoGRAPHIC series, Lissa: A Story of Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution
• Practicing Ethnography: A Student Guide to Method and Methodology edited by Lynda Mannik and Karen McGarry
• The new edition of our bestselling introduction to cultural anthropology, Stories of Culture and Place: An Introduction to Anthropology
• The new edition of Truth and Indignation: Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools by Ronald Niezen

Here's a recap of what went on at UTP in the month of September 2017:

Conferences:

• Jennifer DiDomenico attended the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Atlanta from August 4th-8^th
• Douglas Hildebrand and Anne Brackenbury attended the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting which was held here in Canada (Montreal) this year, from August 12th-15^th
• Our books were on display at the Beijing International Book Fair from August 23rd-27^th
• Mat Buntin and Daniel Quinlan were in San Francisco for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting & Exhibition from August 31st-September 3rd
• Len Husband brought our business history titles to the Canadian Business History Association meeting, held locally at Rotman School of Management, September 11^th-12^th
• Suzanne Rancourt and Natalie Fingerhut attended the Global Reformations Conference put on by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies Conference at Victoria College, University of Toronto on September 28^th and 29^th

Media Highlights:

• On Civic Republicanism, edited by Geoffrey C. Kellow and Neven Leddy, was reviewed in Philosophy In Review
• Mark Celinscak discussed his award-winning book Distance From The Belsen Heap with KVNO News
• In an op-ed for The Irish Times, academics Áine Mahon and Shane Bergin write that Maggie Berg and Barbara Seeber's runaway bestseller The Slow Professor "serves as an intervention for higher education [in Ireland]. It serves also as a manifesto. It powerfully outlines how academics must act in order to save the institutions they value."
• Mayhill Fowler talked about her book Beau Monde on Empire’s Stage with Harvard University Ukrainian Research Institute
• In an op-ed for The St John Telegram, Jared Wesley, editor of Big Worlds: Politics and Elections in the Canadian Provinces and Territories argues that any account of Canadian democracy must focus on the intricacies of provincial politics

New Releases:

• Catholic Education in the Wake of Vatican II, edited by Rosa Bruno-Jofré and Jon Igelmo Zaldívar
• Intrapreneurship, by Kevin DeSouza (New in Paperback)
• Ethical Capitalism: Shibusawa Eiichi and Business Leadership in Global Perspective, edited by Patrick Fridenson and Kikkawa Takeo
• Co-Teaching in Higher Education: From Theory to Co-Practice, edited by Daniel Jarvis and Mumbi Kariuki
• Contours of the Nation: Making Obesity and Imagining Canada, 1945–1970, by Deborah McPhail
• Residential Schools and Reconciliation: Canada Confronts its History, by J.R. Miller
• Helter-Shelter: Security, Legality, and an Ethic of Care in an Emergency Shelter, by Prashan Ranasinghe