Awards
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972
The Joint Arctic Weather Stations: Science and Sovereignty in the High Arctic, 1946-1972
Honourable Mention - CSN-REC Best Book in Canadian Studies | 2022
Winner - ASLI's CHOICE Award for History Monograph Related to Atmospheric Science | 2022
In Singing, He Composed a Song
Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City
Sustainability Matters: Prospects for a Just Transition in Calgary, Canada’s Petro-City
SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Regional Book of the Year | 2022
Happy Sands
Happy Sands
SHORTLISTED Alberta Book Publishing Awards - Trade Fiction Book of the Year | 2022
Unlocking
Unlocking
SHORTLISTED - Alberta Book Publishing Awards - Trade Fiction Book of the Year | 2022
Phillis
Phillis
Author Award: National Black Coalition of Canada - Edmonton, Fil Fraser Award for the Literary, Performing, and Visual Arts | 2020
Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories
Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories
Choice Outstanding Academic Title | 2021
The Manhattan Project
Farmers "Making Good": The Development of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920
Farmers "Making Good": The Development of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920
CO-WINNER, CHA Clio Prize - The Prairies | 1990
The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
The Writing on the Wall: The Work of Joane Cardinal-Schubert
WINNER, ARLIS Melva J. Dwyer Award | 2019
FINALIST, High Plains Book Award for Art & Photography | 2018
BRONZE MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards - Jacket/Cover, Large | 2018
Quarry
Quarry
GOLD MEDAL, PubWest Book Design Awards - Poetry, Short Stories & Anthologies | 2019
BRONZE MEDAL, Forward Review INDIES - LGBTQ Non-Fiction | 2019
SHORTLISTED, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award | 2019
The Comedian
The Comedian
SHORTLISTED, WGA Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction | 2019
SHORTLISTED, Reader Views Annual Reader's Choice Awards | 2018-2019
Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Environmental Activism on the Ground: Small Green and Indigenous Organizing
Honourable Mention, Alana Bondar Memorial Book Prize | 2020
Exhibit
Exhibit
SELECTION, AUPresses Book, Jacket and Journal Show - Poetry & Literature | 2020
SHORTLISTED, Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry | 2020
Scattering Chaff: Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War
Scattering Chaff: Canadian Air Power and Censorship During the Kosovo War
C.P. Stacey Award for Canadian Military History | 2019
Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880
Imperial Standard: Imperial Oil, Exxon, and the Canadian Oil Industry from 1880
WINNER, Petroleum History Society Book of the Year | 2020
SHORTLISTED, Alberta Publishing Award for Best Scholarly & Academic Book | 2020
The Red Chesterfield
The Red Chesterfield
WINNER, Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novella | 2020
FINALIST, High Plains Book Award for Best Indigenous Writer | 2020
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Publishing Award for Trade Fiction | 2020
Air Salt: A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall
Air Salt: A Trauma Mémoire as a Result of the Fall
SHORTLISTED, Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry | 2020
The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock
The True Face of Sir Isaac Brock
BRONZE MEDAL, PubWest Book Design Awards - Small Format Jacket & Cover | 2019
LONGLISTED, British Art Journal William MB Berger Prize | 2019
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
Animal Metropolis: Histories of Human-Animal Relations in Urban Canada
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Cover Design | 2018
Throwing the Diamond Hitch
Fail Safe
Fail Safe
SELECTION, AUPresses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Poetry and Literature | 2018
SILVER MEDAL, PubWest Design Award - Short Stories / Poetry / Anthology | 2018
WINNER, BPAA Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book of the Year | 2018
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Book Design | 2018
Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67
Baffin Island: Field Research and High Arctic Adventure, 1961-67
SILVER MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards: Historical or Biographical Book | 2017
The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War
The Frontier of Patriotism: Alberta and the First World War
GOLD MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards, Historical or Birographical Book | 2017
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Publishing Award for Book Design | 2017
Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Moving Natures: Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
WINNER, Heritage Toronto Historical Writing: Short Publications Award for the chapter "Soils and Subways: Excavating Environments during the Building of Rapid Transit in Toronto, 1944-1968" by Jay Young | 2017
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
Mining and Communities in Northern Canada: History, Politics, and Memory
WINNER, CSN-RÉC Best Edited Collection in Canadian Studies | 2016
Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
Polaris: The Chief Scientist's Recollections of the American North Pole Expedition, 1871-73
HONOURABLE MENTION, NASOH John Lyman Award for Naval and Maritime Science and Technology | 2016
From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J. B. Taylor
From Realism to Abstraction: The Art of J. B. Taylor
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Trade Non-fiction | 2015
SHORTLISTED, ARLIS/NA Melva J. Dwyer Award | 2015
L'Alberta Autophage: Identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l'Ouest canadien
L'Alberta Autophage: Identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l'Ouest canadien
WINNER, Fédération des sciences humaines Prix du Canada en sciences sociales | 2015
Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Award for Scholarly and Academic Book | 2015
Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013
Fishing for a Solution: Canada's Fisheries Relations with the European Union, 1977-2013
HONOURABLE MENTION, NASOH John Lyman Book Award for Canadian Naval and Maritime History | 2015
Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir
Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book | 2014
SHORTLISTED, FHSS Canada Prize in the Social Sciences | 2014
John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture
John C. Parkin, Archives and Photography: Reflections on the Practice and Presentation of Modern Architecture
SHORTLISTED, ARLIS/NA Melva J. Dwyer Award | 2014
Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
Shipwreck at Cape Flora: The Expeditions of Benjamin Leigh Smith, England's Forgotten Arctic Explorer
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book | 2014
Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy
Marion Nicoll: Silence and Alchemy
BRONZE MEDAL, PubWest Design Awards: Jacket/Cover Design - Large Format | 2014
SHORTLISTED, ARLIS/NA Melva J. Dwyer Award | 2014
A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939
A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North: Terrestrial Sovereignty, 1870-1939
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book | 2015
WINNER, CNRS Keith Matthews Award | 2015
WINNER, NASOH John Lyman Book Award for Canadian Naval and Maritime History | 2014
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil
Long Night of the Tankers: Hitler's War Against Caribbean Oil
WINNER, NASOH John Lyman Book Award for U.S. Naval History | 2014
Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History
Petropolitics: Petroleum Development, Markets and Regulations, Alberta as an Illustrative History
WINNER, Petroleum History Society Book of the Year | 2014
The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
The Reindeer Botanist: Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
WINNER, CHA CLIO Prize - The North | 2013
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book | 2013
Always an Adventure: An Autobiography
Always an Adventure: An Autobiography
WINNER, ASA Alan D. Ridge Award of Merit - Publications | 2012
A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011
A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2012
Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930
Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2012
Happyland: A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937
Happyland: A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-1937
WINNER, Saskatchewan Book Award for Nonfiction | 2012
SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing | 2012
SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award for First Book | 2012
SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award - Book of the Year | 2012
Somebody Else's Money: The Walrond Ranch Story, 1883 1907
Somebody Else's Money: The Walrond Ranch Story, 1883 1907
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Readers' Choice | 2009
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Scholarly and Academic Book | 2009
100 Years of Anne with an 'e': The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables
100 Years of Anne with an 'e': The Centennial Study of Anne of Green Gables
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Readers' Choice | 2009
Dark Storm Moving West
Dark Storm Moving West
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2008
FINALIST, CGPS Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize | 2007
Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War
Give Your Other Vote to the Sister: A Woman's Journey into the Great War
SHORTLISTED, Canadian Author's Association - Alberta Branch Exporting Alberta Award | 2008
Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930
Rabbis and their Community: Studies in the Eastern European Orthodox Rabbinate in Montreal, 1896-1930
WINNER, J.I. Segal Award for Canadian Jewish Studies | 2008
Zhorna: Material Culture of the Ukrainian Pioneers
Zhorna: Material Culture of the Ukrainian Pioneers
SHORTLISTED, UCFTS Kobzar Literary Award | 2008
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed (Vols I and II)
Alberta Formed Alberta Transformed (Vols I and II)
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Book Design | 2007
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Book Illustration | 2007
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2007
The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast
The Letters of Margaret Butcher: Missionary-Imperialism on the North Pacific Coast
SECOND PRIZE, British Columbia Historical Federation Writing Competition | 2007
Nouveau roman de l'energie nationale: Analyse des discours promotionnels d'Hydro-Quebec de 1964 a 1997
Nouveau roman de l'energie nationale: Analyse des discours promotionnels d'Hydro-Quebec de 1964 a 1997
SHORTLISTED, Prix Raymond-Klibansky for the best French-language book in the humanities (Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences) | 2007
Reta Summers Cowley
Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets
Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Publishing Award for Cover Design | 2006
"I Will Fear No Evil": Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940
"I Will Fear No Evil": Ojibwa-Missionary Encounters Along the Berens River, 1875-1940
WINNER, MHS Margaret McWilliams Award - Scholarly History | 2006
WINNER, AMA Manitoba Day Award | 2006
My Own Places: Poems On John Constable
My Own Places: Poems On John Constable
SHORTLISTED, Saskatchewan Book Award - Poetry | 2006
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region, 1650-1990
WINNER, CHA/AHA Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations | 2008
SHORTLISTED, Association of Borderlands Studies Book Award | 2008
Staying Human Through the Holocaust
Staying Human Through the Holocaust
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Book Publishing Award for Book Design | 2006
The Bar U and Canadian Ranching History
The Bar U and Canadian Ranching History
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2005
SELECTION, AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Cover Design | 2005
WINNER, CHA CLIO Prize - The Prairies | 2004
Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City
Passages: Explorations of the Contemporary City
SELECTION, AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show - Scholarly Illustrated | 2005
Roughnecks, Rock Bits, and Rigs: The Evolution of Oil Well Drilling Technology in Alberta, 1883-1970
Roughnecks, Rock Bits, and Rigs: The Evolution of Oil Well Drilling Technology in Alberta, 1883-1970
WINNER, Petroleum History Society of Canada Book of the Year | 2005
Songs of the North Woods as sung by O.J. Abbott and collected by Edith Fowke
Songs of the North Woods as sung by O.J. Abbott and collected by Edith Fowke
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award for Cover Design | 2005
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Publisher of the Year | 2005
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900
The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis in a Canadian Family, 1660-1900
WINNER, FHSS Harold Adams Innis Prize | 2005
Betrayal: Agricultural Politics in the Fifties
Betrayal: Agricultural Politics in the Fifties
SHORTLISTED, MWPA Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction | 2004
Developing Alberta's Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto
Developing Alberta's Oil Sands: From Karl Clark to Kyoto
WINNER, 2004 Petroleum History Society of Canada Book of the Year | 2004
The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower
The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on the Ivory Tower
WINNER, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2004
The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose
The Wild Rose Anthology of Alberta Prose
SHORTLISTED, BPAA Alberta Book Publishing Award - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2004
Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
Muskox Land: Ellesmere Island in the Age of Contact
WINNER, FHSS Harold Adams Innis Prize | 2002
A Business History of Alberta
A Business History of Alberta
FINALIST 2000 Alberta Book Awards Scholarly Book of the Year | 2000
Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites
Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites
SILVER, Alberta Book Awards - Scholarly Book of the Year | 2001
SELECTION, CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles | 2000