Awards

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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.

Awards

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
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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.

Awards

2024, Winner -

Jennifer Welsh Scholarly Writing Award, Saskatchewan Book Awards

  • Copyright year: 2022
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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.

Awards

2024, Winner - Canada Prize, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

  • Copyright year: 2022
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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.

Awards

2023, Shortlisted - Lieutenant Governor’s Historical Writing Awards

  • Copyright year: 2022
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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.

Awards

2023, Shortlisted - Saskatchewan Book Awards

2024, Winner - Best Book in Canadian Environmental History Prize, NiCHE

  • Copyright year: 2022
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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.

Awards

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
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