On May 29, CHA members L.K. Bertram (left; University of Toronto) and Ryan Eyford (right; University of Winnipeg) attended a state dinner at Rideau Hall in honour of the President of Iceland, Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (centre) and the First Lady of Iceland, Eliza Reid (who is a Canadian and originally from Ottawa). The President was a professor of modern Icelandic history at the University of Iceland prior to his election in 2016.
On March 17, 2023, Cecilia Morgan was interviewed for The End of Tourism podcast about her work on the history of Indigenous travel. Here are the links:
https://www.theendoftourism.com/episodes/indigenous-travellers-in-the-heart-of-empire-cecilia-morgan
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/theendoftourism
The British Columbia Historical Federation has announced the finalists for the 2022 Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Historical Writing: John Adams (Chinese Victoria: A Long and Difficult Journey); Sean Carleton (Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism and the Rise of State Schooling in British Columbia); Robin Fisher (Wilson Duff: Coming Back, A Life); Derek Hayes (Incredible Crossings: The History and Art of the Bridges, Tunnels and Inland Ferries that Connect British Columbia); Satwinder Kaur Bains and Balbir Gurm, eds (A Social History of South Asians in British Columbia); Gaadgas Nora Bellis and Jenny Nelson (So You Girls Remember That: Memories of a Haida Elder); and David Rossiter and Patricia Burke Wood (Unstable Properties: Aboriginal Title and the Claim of British Columbia).
Historic Perspective of the COVID-19 Pandemic
UM Researcher, Esyllt Jones, Leads New International Postpandemic Recovery Project
Harvey Amani Whitfield (University of Calgary) delivered the Asael E. and Maydell C. Palmer Annual Lecture in Canadian Studies at Brigham Young University. The title of his lecture was “Statia: An Enslaved Black Woman in New York and New Brunswick During the Revolution and its Aftermath.”
The CHA would like to congratulate all of this year’s prize winners.
CHA AFFILLIATED COMMITTEES PRIZES
Canadian Committee on Labour History
Best Article Prize
WINNER
Cameron Willis, “‘If You Want Anything, You Have to Fight for It’: Prisoner Strikes at Kingston Penitentiary, 1932-1935,” Labour/Le Travail 89 (Spring 2022): 89-145.
Eugene A. Forsey Prize For Undergraduate Student Dissertation Prize
WINNER
Katharine Ritcher, “The Criminalization of Unemployment Strikes in Depression-Era Nova Scotia, 1931-1936,” dissertation, Dalhousie University.
Eugene A. Forsey Graduate Student Dissertation Prize
WINNER
Benoit Marsan, « « L’heure des pétitions est passée, il faut des actes » : les sans-travail et la protestation au Québec durent l’entre-deux-guerres (1919-1939) ». Dissertation doctorale, UQÀM.
Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism Article Prize
WINNER
Kassandra Luciuk, “‘They Will Crack Heads When the Communist Line is Expounded’ : Anti-Communist Violence in Cold War Canada”. Labour/Le Travail 90 (Fall 2022): 149-78.
Best Article or Book Chapter Prize of the Network in Canadian History & Environment
WINNERS
Colleen Campbell & Tina Loo, “Making Tracks: A Grizzly and Entangled History” in Traces of the Animal Past: Methodological Challenges in Animal History, ed. Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj. University of Calgary Press, 2022: 235-268.
Canadian Committee on Women’s and Gender History
Prix Hilda Neatby Prize recognises each year the best articles in French and English on women’s and gender history
WINNER OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTICLE
Joan K. F. Heggie and Sarah Carter, “Miss Jack May, Lady Farmer in England and Canada” Women’s History Review, 21 Oct 2022.
Political History Group
Book Prize
WINNER
Fernand Harvey, Histoire des politiques culturelles au Québec, 1855-1976 (Septentrion, 2022)
Canadian Business History Association
Best Article Prize
WINNER
Matthew J. Bellamy, “Business Against Drunk Driving: The Neoliberal State, Labatt Brewery, and the Creation of the ‘Responsible Drinker’”, Enterprise & Society (2022), 1-24.
Best Book Prize
WINNER
Daniel Robinson, Cigarette Nation: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930-1975 (McGill Queens University Press, 2022).
Public History Group Prize
Best Project Prize
WINNER
Mary Jane Logan McCallum, The Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project.
Indigenous History Prize
Best Book Prize
CO-WINNERS
Lianne C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake (Toronto: UTP).
Annette W. de Stecher, Wendat Women’s Arts (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
CHA PRIZES
Prix Bullen Prize (The John Bullen Prize honours the outstanding Ph.D. thesis on a historical topic submitted in a Canadian university by a Canadian citizen or permanent resident
WINNER
Alison MacAulay, “Filming History: Visual Representations of Rwanda, 1916-2014”
PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2022.
CHA Teaching Awards
Early or Alternative Career Award – Canadian History
WINNER
Rebecca Beausaert
Early or Alternative Career Award – Other than Canadian History | Prix de début de carrière ou de carrière alternative – autre que l’histoire canadienne
WINNER
Katherine Bruce-Lockhart
Open State Career Award – Canadian History
WINNER
David Webster
Open Career State Award, other than Canadian History
WINNER
Kevin Coleman
Prix Clio Prizes (These annual awards are given for meritorious publications or for exceptional contributions by individuals or organizations to regional history
Atlantic Region
WINNER
Harvey Amani Whitfield, Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes. University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Québec
WINNER
Steven High, Deindustrializing Montreal. Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Ontario
WINNER
Lianne C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake. University of Toronto Press.
The Prairies
WINNER
Susan Dianne Brophy, A Legacy of Exploitation: Early Capitalism in the Red River Colony, 1763-1821. University of British Colombia Press.
British Columbia
WINNER
Sean Carleton, Lessons in Legitimacy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and the Rise of State Schooling in British Colombia. University of British Columbia Press.
The North
WINNERS
Carol Payne, Beth Greenhorn, Deborah Kigjugalik Webster, and Christina Williamson, eds. Atiqput: Inuit Oral History and Project Naming. McGill-Queen’s University Press.
Ferguson Prize (is awarded to outstanding scholarly book in a field of history other than Canadian history
SHORT LIST – In alphabetical order
Abigail Krasner Balbale, The Wolf King. Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus. Cornell University Press.
Sebastian Huebel, Fighter, Worker, and Family Man: German-Jewish Men and Their Gendered Experiences in Nazi Germany, 1933–1941. University of Toronto Press.
Sarah Shortall, Soldiers of God in a Secular World. Catholic Theology and Twentieth-Century French Politics. Harvard University Press.
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, The Three Deaths of Cerro de San Pedro. Four Centuries of Extractivism in a Small Mexican Mining Town. University of North Carolina Press.
Aaron Windel, Cooperative Rule: Community Development in Britain’s Late Empire. University of California Press.
WINNER
Abigail Krasner Balbale, The Wolf King. Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in al-Andalus. Cornell University Press.
The CHA Best Scholarly Book in Canadian History Prize is awarded to the non-fiction work of Canadian history judged to have made the most significant contribution to an understanding of the Canadian past
SHORT LIST – In alphabetical order
Catherine Carstairs, The Smile Gap: A History of Oral health and Social Inequality. Mc-Gill Queen’s University Press, 2022.
François-Olivier Dorais, L’école historique de Québec: une histoire intellectuelle. Boréal, 2022.
Steven High, Deindustrializing Montreal: Entangled Histories of Race, Residence, and Class. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.
Lianne, C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake. University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Catharine Anne Wilson, Being Neighbours: Cooperative Work and Rural Culture, 1830 – 1960. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022.
WINNER
Lianne, C. Leddy, Serpent River Resurgence: Confronting Uranium Mining at Elliot Lake. University of Toronto Press, 2022.
Congratulations to all the winners!
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