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.
Screening Out
HIV Testing and the Canadian Immigration Experience
A critical, compassionate, and highly readable narrative-driven analysis, this is the first-ever inquiry into how the Canadian immigration medical program works in practice to screen out people with HIV.
2023, Commended - Canadian Sociology Book Award, Canadian Sociological Association
- Publication year: 2022
Reconciling Truths
Reimagining Public Inquiries in Canada
Reconciling Truths is a forthright examination of commissions of inquiry that demonstrates the need for astute leadership and an engaging process if they are to lead to meaningful change.
2022, Shortlisted - Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
- Publication year: 2022
Beyond Rights
The Nisg̱a’a Final Agreement and the Challenges of Modern Treaty Relationships
Beyond Rights examines the legal, political, and cultural implications of the groundbreaking process of negotiating the Nisga’a treaty.
2023, Shortlisted - George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature
- Publication year: 2021
A Long Way to Paradise
A New History of British Columbia Politics
A Long Way to Paradise is a lively account of the personalities and ideas that shaped the first hundred years of BC politics and created one of Canada’s most fractious and dynamic political scenes.
2022, Winner - Clio Prize (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
- Publication year: 2021
The Laws and the Land
The Settler Colonial Invasion of Kahnawà:ke in Nineteenth-Century Canada
The Laws and the Land, an original and impassioned account of the history of the relationship between Canada and Kahnawà:ke, reveals the clash of settler and Indigenous legal traditions and the imposition of settler colonial law on Indigenous peoples and land.
2022, Winner - Indigenous History Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association
2022, Winner - Best Book Prize, Canadian Studies Network
- Publication year: 2021
Demanding Equality
One Hundred Years of Canadian Feminism
In a wide-ranging survey of Canadian feminism from the 1880s to the 1980s, Demanding Equality reveals a continuous, vibrant, and often contentious search for equality, autonomy, and dignity.
2022, Winner - The Canadian Committee on Womens and Gender History English Language Book Prize
- Publication year: 2021