Outstanding Scholarship Prize

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WGSRF Outstanding Scholarship Prize

Call for Nominations 2022-2023

DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS: 15 April 2023

This annual prize, established in 2002, acknowledges the important contributions that Women’s and Gender Studies scholars have made to the field in the form of a monograph, edited collection, or a significant documentary film. The monograph, edited collection, or significant documentary film must have been published or distributed, in either English or French, between **1 January 2021 and 31 December 2021.**

The award will recognize work produced by Canadian scholars/filmmakers, work published or produced by Canadian presses/film production agencies, or work on Canadian topics. In order to be considered, all nominated authors and filmmakers must be members of the Association in good standing, during the year of the nomination and the year in which the prize is granted.

The nominated work must make a significant scholarly contribution to and expand knowledge and theorizing in the discipline of Women’s and Gender Studies, as determined by a committee of up to five WGSRF members.

Criteria include:

(i) relevance to Women’s and Gender Studies

(ii) currency of the subject matter to current debates and discussions

(iii) quality of style, presentation, research, and methodology

(iv) originality

Nominations are solicited from association members in good standing, book publishers, and film distributers. Authors may not nominate their own publications/documentary films, or publications/documentary films in which they have personal or financial interests.

To nominate a monograph, edited anthology, or documentary film, please: arrange for one copy of the book or documentary to be sent to each person listed below:

Claire Carter

Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies

University of Regina

3737 Wascana Parkway

Regina, Saskatchewan

S4S 0A2 

 

Rhea Rollman

85 Barters Hill

St. John’s, Newfoundland

A1C 4K6

Annalee Lepp

Dean’s Office, Faculty of Humanities

University of Victoria

P.O. Box 1700

Victoria, BC

V8V 2Y2

 

Or for courier:

 

Annalee Lepp

Faculty of Humanities
University of Victoria
Clearihue Building C305 
Victoria BC

V8P 5C2

 

Questions? Contact Annalee Lepp at alepp@uvic.ca.

 

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Prix pour travail universitaire de qualité exceptionnelle de WGSRF

Appel à candidatures, 2022-2023

 

ÉCHÉANCIER POUR LES NOMINATIONS : 15 avril 2023 

Ce prix annuel, instauré en 2002, reconnaît les importantes contributions des universitaires dans les disciplines d’études sur les femmes et sur le genre, sous la forme d’une monographie, d’une collection éditée ou d’un film documentaire significatif. La monographie, la collection éditée ou le film documentaire significatif doit avoir été publié ou distribué entre **janvier et décembre 2021.** 

Ce prix reconnaîtra le travail produit par des universitaires/cinéastes canadiens, travail publié ou produit par des presses/ agences de production cinématographiques canadiennes, ou travail sur des sujets canadiens. Pour être considérés, les auteur(e)s et cinéastes qui seront nominé(e)s doivent être des membres en règle de l’association pendant l’année durant laquelle ils/elles seront nominé(e)s, au moment où le prix sera attribué.

Le travail mis en nomination doit apporter une contribution savante significative et élargir les connaissances et les théories dans les disciplines d’études sur les femmes et sur le genre, tel que déterminé par un comité composé de jusqu’à cinq membres de WGSRF.

Les critères incluent:

(i) la pertinence par rapport aux études sur les femmes et sur le genre

(ii) l’actualité du sujet par rapport aux débats et discussions actuels

(iii) la qualité du style, de la présentation, de la recherche et de la méthodologie

(iv) l’originalité

Nous sollicitons des nominations de la part de membres en règle de l’association, d’éditeurs de livres et de distributeurs de films. Les auteur(e)s ne peuvent pas soumettre en nomination leurs propres publications/films documentaires ou des publications/films documentaires pour lesquels ils/elles ont des intérêts personnels/finianciers.

Pour soumettre une monographie, une collection éditée ou un film documentaire en nomination, veuillez vous assurer d’envoyer une copie du livre ou du film documentaire à chacune des personnes indiquées ci-dessous :

 

Claire Carter

Department of Gender, Religion, and Critical Studies

University of Regina

3737 Wascana Parkway

Regina, Saskatchewan

S4S 0A2 

 

Rhea Rollman

85 Barters Hill

St. John’s, NL

A1C 4K6

Annalee Lepp

Dean’s Office, Faculty of Humanities

University of Victoria

P.O. Box 1700 Station CSC

Victoria, BC

V8V 2Y2

 

ou pour le courier:

 

Annalee Lepp

Faculty of Humanities
University of Victoria
Clearihue Building C305 
Victoria BC

V8P 5C2

 

Pour toute question, veuillez  contacter Annalee Lepp à l’adresse courriel suivante : alepp@uvic.ca.

History

In 2002 the (then) CWSA/ACÉF introduced an annual book prize competition, awarded to a monograph published in the previous year, in either English or French, as selected by a committee of 3-5 members. In the years since implementing this award, between 8-18 books have been nominated each year. Nominations are solicited from both association members and from publishers. Award winners originally received a complimentary registration to the conference, a plaque, and a year's subscription to Atlantis at the awards ceremony during the annual conference. 

Award Recipients

2017-2018 University of Regina, Regina, SK
Winners
Tanya Narozhna and W. Andy Knight, Female Suicide Bombings: A Critical Gender Approach, University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Honourable Mentions
Caroline Shenaz Hossein, Politicized Microfinance: Money, Power, and Violence in the Black Americas, University of Toronto Press, 2016.
 
Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail, and Wendy Mitchinson, eds., Obesity in Canada: Critical Perspectives, University of Toronto Press, 2016.

2016-2017 Ryerson University, Toronto, ON
Co-Winners
​Amber Dean (McMaster University). Remembering Vancouver's Disappeared Women: Settler Colonialism and the Difficulty of Inheritance. University of Toronto Press, 2015
 
Shawna Ferris (University of Manitoba). Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order. University of Alberta Press, 2015.
 
Honourable Mention
Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich (Carleton University). Looking For Ashley: Re-reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada. Demeter Press, 2015.

2015-2016: University of Calgary, Calgary, AB
Winner
Gada Mahrouse (Concordia University) Conflicted Commitments: Race, Privilege, and Power in Transnational Solidarity Activism.  McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.

Honourable Mentions:                                                                                                                     
Marnina Gonick (Mount Saint Vincent University) and Susanne Gannon (University of Western Sydney). Becoming Girl: Collective Biography and the Production of Girlhood. Women's Press, 2014. 

Julie Lavigne (Université du Québec à Montréal), La Traversée de la pornographie : politique et érotisme dans l'art féministe​. Éditions du Remue-ménage, 2014.

Sam McKegney (University of Manitoba), Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood.  University of Manitoba Press, 2014.

2014-2015: University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

Co-Winners
May Friedman (Ryerson University), Mommyblogs and the Changing Face of Motherhood. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 2013.
 
Heather Latimer (UBC), Reproductive Acts: Sexual Politics in North American Fiction & Film. McGill-Queen’s University Press. 2013.
 

2013-2014: Brock University, St Catharines, ON
Winner
Elizabeth Podnieks (Ryerson University), ed., Mediating Moms: Mothers in Popular Culture. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.
 
Honourable Mention
Sharon Anne Cook (University of Ottawa), Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture, 1880-2000. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012.
 

2012- 2013: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
Winner 
Mary Louise Adams (Queen’s University), Artistic Impressions: Figure Skating, Masculinity and the Limits of Sport. University of Toronto Press, 2011.
 
Honourable Mention
Denise Spitzer (University of Ottawa), ed., Engendering Migrant Health: Canadian Perspectives. University of Toronto Press, 2011.
 

2011-2012: Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON
Winner
Cheryl Suzack, Shari M. Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, and Jean Barman, eds. Indigenous women and feminism: politics, activism, culture. UBC Press, 2010

Honourable Mention
Sheila L. Cavanagh. Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination. University of Toronto Press, 2010.

2010-11: University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB
Winner
Amani Hamdan. Muslim Women Speak: A Tapestry of Lives and Dreams. Women's Press, 2009.

Honourable Mention
Lara Campbell. Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression. University of Toronto Press, 2009.

2009-10: Concordia University, Montreal, QC
Winner
Liz Millward. Women in British Imperial Airspace, 1922-1937. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008.

Honourable Mention
Morgan Holmes, Intersex: A Perilous Difference. Susquehanna Press, 2008.

2008-09: Carleton University, Ottawa, ON
Winner
Norman Smith. Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation. UBC Press, 2007.

Honourable mention
Sheila Cavanagh. Sexing the Teacher: School Sexual Scandals and Queer Pedagogies. UBC Press, 2007

2007-08: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
Winner
Sheryl Nestel. Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery. UBC Press 2006.

Honourable Mentions
1) Shahnaz Khan. Transnational Feminism and the Moral Regulation of Pakistani Women. UBC Press, 2006

2) Leslie Ann Jeffrey and Gayle MacDonald. Talk Back: Sex Workers in the Maritimes. UBC Press, 2006

2006-07: University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK
Winner
Abigail Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis. Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005

2005-06: York University, Toronto, ON
Winner
Wendy McKeen. Money in Their Own Name: the Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995.  University of Toronto Press, 2004

2004-05: University of Western Ontario, London, ON
Winner
Ann Porter. Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2003

2003-04: University of Manitoba
Winner
Aysan Sev'er. Fleeing the House of Horrors: Women Who have Left Abusive Partners. University of Toronto Press, 2002

2002-03: Dalhousie University (awards ceremony held at Mount Saint Vincent University), Halifax, NS
Winner
Annis May Timpson. Driven Apart: Women's Employment Equality and Child Care in Canadian Public Policy. UBC Press, 2001