UBC Press is proud to publish outstanding scholarly works by some of the world’s preeminent scholars. We congratulate our authors and volume editors who have been recognized with awards and citations.
Alliance and Illusion
Canada and the World, 1945-1984
This is the definitive assessment of the domestic and international aspects of Canadian foreign policy in the modern era.
2008, Commended - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
- Copyright year: 2007
Sexing the Teacher
School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies
A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals, this book employs queer theory, psychoanalysis, and feminist film theory to examine sensationalized legal cases, including Mary Kay Letourneau, Amy Gehring, and Heather Ingram.
2009, Commended - Canadian Women's Studies Association Book Prize
- Copyright year: 2007
The Archive of Place
Unearthing the Pasts of the Chilcotin Plateau
Weaves together a series of narratives about environmental history in British Columbia’s Chilcotin Plateau.
2008, Winner - Clio Award (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Assocation
- Copyright year: 2007
The Triumph of Citizenship
The Japanese and Chinese in Canada, 1941-67
This final volume to Patricia E. Roy's pivotal trilogy exploring racial discrimination against Chinese- and Japanese-Canadians examines the removal of all Japanese-Canadians from the BC coast during WWII, while Chinese-Canadians gained the right to vote in 1947.
2008, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards
2008, Shortlisted - Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2013, Winner - Patricia E. Roy is the recipient of the Canadian Historical Association's Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013.
- Copyright year: 2007
Vanishing British Columbia
2005, Shortlisted - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Book Prize, British Columbia Book Awards
2005, Runner-up - Book Writing Competition on BC History, British Columbia Historical Federation
- Copyright year: 2005
In Search of Canadian Political Culture
The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada. It will interest specialists in Canadian political culture and generalists in Canadian politics.
2008, Shortlisted - Outstanding Academic Title, CHOICE
- Copyright year: 2007