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Clara at the Door with a Revolver
The Scandalous Black Suspect, the Exemplary White Son, and the Murder That Shocked Toronto
Gender, race, and politics in late-nineteenth-century Toronto swirl around this riveting true story of the murder of Frank Westwood and the controversial acquittal of the main suspect, Clara Ford – a cross-dressing Black single mother.
2023, Shortlisted - Toronto Book Award
2024, Shortlisted - Brass Knuckles Award for Non-fiction Crime Books, Crime Writers of Canada
2024, Winner - Heritage Toronto Book Award
- Copyright year: 2023
Revival and Change
The 1957 and 1958 Diefenbaker Elections
Revival and Change is a compelling account of the elections, accomplishments, challenges, failures, and ultimate end of the Diefenbaker era.
2024, Winner -
Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards
- Copyright year: 2022
Cripping Intersex
Cripping Intersex explores the political, discursive, and embodied connections between intersex and disability to develop a radically innovative approach to intersex studies and activism.
2024, Winner - Canada Prize, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- Copyright year: 2022
Unstable Properties
Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia
Unstable Properties convincingly argues that the so-called land question in British Columbia cannot be resolved without understanding the fundamentally unstable ideological foundation of land and title arrangements on which the province rests.
2023, Shortlisted - Lieutenant Governor’s Historical Writing Awards
- Copyright year: 2022
Making Muskoka
Tourism, Rural Identity, and Sustainability, 1870–1920
Making Muskoka traces the first decades of Muskoka’s transformation from Indigenous homeland to a part-time playground for tourists and cottagers and uncovers the consequences for those who lived there year-round.
2023, Shortlisted - Saskatchewan Book Awards
2024, Winner - Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize, NiCHE
- Copyright year: 2022
Lessons in Legitimacy
Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia
Lessons in Legitimacy examines the relationship between settler capitalism, state schooling, and the making of British Columbia.
2023, Runner-up - Lieutenant Governor’s Historical Writing Awards
2023, Winner - Clio Prize (British Columbia), Canadian Historical Association
2024, Winner -
Founders’ Book Prize, Canadian History of Education Association
- Copyright year: 2022