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.
The Bomb in the Wilderness
Photography and the Nuclear Era in Canada
The Bomb in the Wilderness is an acutely perceptive analysis of Canada’s nuclear footprint through the medium of photography, revealing how we have represented, interpreted, and remembered nuclear activities since 1945.
2021, Commended - The Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design: Prose Illustrated
- Copyright year: 2020
Whipped
Party Discipline in Canada
This revealing examination of the inner workings of party discipline exposes the machinery of message coordination that courses through Canadian legislatures and politics.
2021, Shortlisted - Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, The Writers Trust
- Copyright year: 2020
The Justice Crisis
The Cost and Value of Accessing Law
Based on innovative recent empirical research, The Justice Crisis assesses what is and isn’t working in efforts to improve access to civil and family justice in Canada.
2021, Shortlisted - Walter Owen Book Prize, The Canadian Foundation for Legal Research
- Copyright year: 2020
Fixing Niagara Falls
Environment, Energy, and Engineers at the World’s Most Famous Waterfall
Long considered a natural wonder, the world’s most famous waterfall is anything but. Fixing Niagara Falls reveals the engineering and politics behind the transformation of Niagara Falls.
2020, Winner - Honourable Mention - Wilson Book Prize, The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University
- Copyright year: 2020
Cataloguing Culture
Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation
In examining how the technologies of museum bureaucracy – the ledger book, the card catalogue, the database – operate through a colonial lens, Cataloguing Culture shines a light on access to and the return of Indigenous cultural heritage.
2022, Winner - The Labrecque-Lee Book Prize, Canadian Anthropology Society
- Copyright year: 2020
A Great Revolutionary Wave
Women and the Vote in British Columbia
The first book on the woman’s suffrage movement in British Columbia, A Great Revolutionary Wave traces the history of the fight for the vote from the 1870s to the 1940s against a backdrop of social reform, international social movements, labour politics, and settler colonialism.
2021, Commended - Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing, British Columbia Historical Association
2021, Winner - Clio Awards (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Society
- Copyright year: 2020