Three FASS Faculty Members Named as Finalists for Canada Prize
Three 杏吧原创 University faculty members from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences have been named as finalists for the .
杏吧原创鈥檚 finalists are:
Canada Prize in the Humanities
- History Prof. Norman Hillmer, for his book for (University of Toronto Press). The book, released in late-2015, delves into the legacy of O.D. Skelton, the widely regarded architect of the Canadian foreign service and longtime Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs.
- History Prof. Michel Hogue, for his book (University of Regina Press). The book explores the agency of the M茅tis people between the 1800s and the early twentieth century as they moved back and forth across the Canadian-American border.
Prix du Canada en sciences humaines
- French Prof. Patricia Smart, for her book (脡ditions du Bor茅al). The book brings together a number of published and unpublished accounts of their lives by Quebec women from New France to the present day.
The Canada Prizes are awarded annually by the for the best scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences that have received funding from the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program (ASPP).
Celebrating the best Canadian scholarly books鈥攏ot simply within a single academic discipline, but across all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences鈥攖he Canada Prizes recognize books that make an exceptional contribution to scholarship, are engagingly written, and enrich the social, cultural and intellectual life of Canada.
The official announcement of the winners will take place during the in Calgary on April 11, 2016.