University of Ottawa researchers have received four nominations for the best scholarly books in the humanities, as chosen by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Irena R. Makaryk is in the running for the Raymond Klibansky Prize for best English-language book in the humanities for Shakespeare in the Undiscovered Bourn: Les Kurbas, Ukrainian Modernism, and Early Soviet Cultural Politics (University of Toronto Press, 2004).
Two researchers were nominated for the best French-language humanities book: Pierre Berthiaume, for Nicolas Perrot : Mœurs, coutumes et religion des Sauvages de l’Amérique septentrionale (Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2004); and Daniel Castillo-Durante for Les dépouilles de l’altérité (XYZ Éditeur, 2004).
The book Sociologie des rapports de sexe (University of Ottawa Press, 2003) by Marie-Blanche Tahon was nominated for the Jean-Charles-Falardeau prize for best French-language book in the social sciences.
One other book published by the University of Ottawa Press was nominated: Les inventeurs de dictionnaires. De l’eduba des scribes mésopotamiens au scriptorium des moines médiévaux by Université Laval professor, Jean-Claude Boulanger.
Winners will be announced on November 26, 2005.
