About Wilson Institute Prizes
Every year, the Wilson Institute Book Prize recognizes the book published that year that best places Canadian history in a transnational context. The Institute is particularly focused on honouring books that speak to a broad public. Titles may be submitted by both publishers and authors, which are then placed in the Institute’s library. In the Spring of the following year, the Institute’s coast-to-coast network of Associates is invited to vote on a short-list prepared by the director and research co-ordinator. The winner of the award is announced in the late Spring.
Named after its founding director, Dr. Vivian Nelles, the Wilson Institute’s Viv Nelles Award recognizes the essay written during that year by a graduate student that best places Canadian history in its transnational context. Essays may be submitted electronically by either students or supervisors by the end of the year, and are evaluated by the Institute, acting on the advice of its Associates. Winners of the award are announced in late Spring of the following year.
Application submission
Please send to / SVP envoyez à:
Wilson Institute for Canadian History
L.R. Wilson Hall Room 2802
McMaster University
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4K1
About the Viv Nelles Essay Prize
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University is proud to, once again, award the Viv Nelles Essay Prize. This prize is awarded to the graduate student term paper that best places Canada in a transnational framework. To be considered for the award, a paper must be nominated by a graduate student or his/her instructor and submitted electronically, to the institute, no later than 28 February 2025. We will present the award in Spring 2025. We will present the award in Spring 2025 and the recipient will be granted $500 for their dynamic work. Please send your nominations to wilsonCH@mcmaster.ca
À Propos du Prix de l’Essai Viv Nelles
L’Institut Wilson d’histoire canadienne à l’université McMaster est fier de décerner, encore une fois, le Prix de l’essai Viv Nelles. Ce prix est décerné à l’étudiant(e) qui propose une nouvelle interprétation d’un aspect de l’histoire canadienne écrit dans le cadre d’un cours de niveau diplômé. Pour être considéré pour ce prix, tous travaux nommés par un(e) étudiant(e) ou son instructeur(e) doivent être soumis, par courriel, à l’institut, au plus tard le 28 février 2025. Ce prix sera décerné au printemps 2025 et le récipiendaire recevra 500$ pour son travail dynamique. SVP envoyez vos soumissions à wilsonCH@mcmaster.ca
Past Winners
2022: Catherine Charlton, Dalhousie University, “O Worship the King: Founding Loyalty at the University of King’s College, 1789-1829.”
2020: Geneviève Riou, Concordia University, “D’une île à l’autre: Transnational Activism, Memory, and Other Trajectories in Haitian-Montrealer Life Stories During the Duvalier Era.”
2019: John Bird, University of Saskatchewan, “Settler Salvation and Indigenous Survival: George Copway’s Reconciliatory Vision.”
2018: Mack Penner, McMaster University, “‘Towards Spontaneous Order’: Tom Flanagan, Friedrich Hayek, and Neo-Austrianism on the Canadian Prairies.”
2017: Magdalene Klassen, McGill University
2016: Alexandra Montgomery, University of Pennsylvania
About the Wilson Book Prize
The Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University is proud to, once again, award the Wilson Book Prize. This prize is open to all major publishers of Canadian history and will be awarded to the book that offers the best exploration of Canadian history that, in the view of the Wilson Institute, succeeds in making Canadian historical scholarship accessible to a wide and transnational audience. In order to be considered for this award, each publisher must send the book(s) or other historical works from their 2024 catalogue that best fits this description prior to 31 December. All books should be sent to the Wilson Institute for Canadian History, Chester New Hall 619, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9. The Institute will request a PDF of short-listed books, so that all our Associates are enabled to cast consultative ballots to help determine the winner. All books and other historical works sent in for consideration will become the property of the Wilson Institute and part of the Wilson Institute Library. We will present the award to the winning publisher and author(s) in Spring 2025. Email wilsonCH@mcmaster.ca if you have questions.
À Propos du Prix du Livre de l’Institut Wilson
L’Institut Wilson d’histoire canadienne à l’université McMaster est fier de décerner, encore une fois, le Prix du livre de l’institut Wilson. Ce prix est ouvert à tous les éditeurs d’histoire canadienne et sera attribué au livre qui offre la meilleure exploration en histoire canadienne qui, à l’avis de l’Institut Wilson, est accessible à un public étendu et transnational. Pour être considéré pour ce prix, chaque éditeur doit envoyer le ou les ouvrages historique de leur catalogue pour l’année 2024 qui correspond le mieux à cette description avant le 31 Décembre 2024. En raison de la pandémie, tous les livres doivent être envoyés au L’Institut Wilson d’histoire canadienne, Chester New Hall 619, McMaster University, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4L9. Tous livres et ouvrages envoyés pour notre considération deviendront la propriété de l’Institut Wilson et feront partie de la bibliothèque de l’Institut Wilson. L’Institut demandera un PDF des livres présélectionnés, afin que tous nos associés soient autorisés à voter pour aider à déterminer le gagnant. Nous remettrons le prix à l’éditeur et aux auteurs gagnants au printemps 2025. Envoyez un courriel à wilsonCH@mcmaster.ca si vous avez des questions.
Past Winners
2023:Julien Mauduit, La guerre d’indépendance des Canadas : Démocratie, républicanismes et libéralismes en Amérique du Nord (Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022).
2022: Allyson D. Stevenson, Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship (University of Toronto Press).
2020: Robert Englebert and Andrew N. Wegmann, eds., French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600-1875 (Louisiana State University Press).
2019: M. Max Hamon, The Audacity of His Enterprise: Louis Riel and the Métis Nation That Canada Never Was, 1840–1875 (McGill-Queen’s University Press).
2018: Allan Greer, Property and Dispossession: Natives, Empires, and Land in Early Modern North America (Cambridge University Press).
2017: Kristine Alexander, Guiding Modern Girls: Girlhood, Empire, and Internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s (UBC Press)
2016: Between the Lines for Drawn to Change: Graphic Histories of Working-Class Struggle
2013: McGill-Queen’s University Press
2012: Between the Lines
2011: The University of British Columbia Press
2010: Dundurn Press