2023 Donald Smiley Prize

2023 Donald Smiley Prize

2023 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: Debra ThompsonDebra Thompson: The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging (Simon & Schuster, 2022)Excerpt from jury report: The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging is a highly engaging and intellectually courageous book...
2022 Donald Smiley Prize

2022 Donald Smiley Prize

2022 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: George HobergThe Resistance Dilemma: Place-Based Movements and the Climate Crisis (MIT Press, 2021)Excerpt from jury report: The Resistance Dilemma is a timely book on an important topic. It focuses on place-based resistance to energy...
2021 Donald-Smiley Prize

2021 Donald-Smiley Prize

2021 Donald-Smiley Prize Winner: Angela Carter, University of Waterloo Fossilized- Environmental Policy in Canada’s Petro-Provinces (UBC Press, 2020)Excerpt from jury report: This thoughtful and comprehensive book addresses one of the most fractious and...
2020 Donald Smiley Prize

2020 Donald Smiley Prize

2020 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: David McGraneThe New NDP (UBC Press, 2019)Excerpt from jury report: In The New NDP, David McGrane weaves a highly engaging and convincing narrative of the party’s trajectory from third party status, to official opposition and then...
2019 Donald Smiley Prize

2019 Donald Smiley Prize

2019 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: Samuel V. LaSelva Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism: Identity, Destiny, and Constitutional Faith, MQUP 2018 Photo: Samuel V. LaSelva (University of British Columbia) and Joanna Everitt (University of New Brunswick Saint John...
2018 Donald Smiley Prize

2018 Donald Smiley Prize

2018 Donald Smiley Prize Winner: Peter RussellCanada’s Odyssey: A Country Based on Incomplete Conquests, University of Toronto Press, 2017Photo: Peter Russell (University of Toronto – recipient), CPSA President’s Dinner, May 31, 2018, DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel...