Alberta Scholarly and Academic Book of the Year

This award is presented annually to the Alberta-based publisher producing the best book published primarily for the post-secondary, post-graduate or other academic/scholarly market.


Previous Winners

  • 2010
    The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
    People of the Lakes, by Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation and Shirleen Smith.
  • 2009
    Au Press & The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
    The importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915, by Sarah Carter.
  • 2008
    The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
    Culturing Wilderness in Jasper National Park: Studies in Two Centuries of Human History in the Upper Athabasca River Watershed, edited by I.S. MacLaren.
  • 2007
    Broadview Press (Calgary)
    The Broadview Anthology of British Literature
    edited by Joseph Black et al.
  • 2006
    University of Calgary Press (Calgary):
    Calgary's Grand Story by Donald B. Smith

  • 2005
    University of Calgary Press (Calgary):

    The Bar U & Canadian Ranching History by Simon M. Evans
  • 2004
    The University of Calgary Press (Calgary):
    The Madwoman in the Academy: 43 Women Boldly Take on
    the Ivory Tower
    , edited by Deborah Keahey and Deborah Schnitzer
  • 2003
    The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton):
    The Canadian Dictionary of ESL, edited by Carol Sue Bailey
    and Kathy Dolby
  • 2002
    The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton) / Natural Resources Canada, The Canadian Forest Service: Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta by the Alberta Native Plant Council, Edited by Linda Kershaw, Joyce Gould, Derek Johnson & Jane Lancaster
  • 2001
    The University of Alberta Press: The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education edited by F.C. Decoste & Bernard Schwartz
  • 2000
    The Literary History of Alberta: From the End of the War to the End of the Century, Volume Two, by George Melnyk
    The University of Alberta Press
  • 1999
    Alberta Elders' Cree Dictionary: alperta ohci kehtehayak nehiyaw otwestammkewasinahikan, by Nancy LeClaire & george Cardinal, edited by Earle Waugh
    The University of Alberta Press
  • 1998
    Their Example Showed me the Way, by Emman Minde, translated and edited by Freda Ahenakew and H.C. Wolfart
    The University of Alberta Press
  • 1997
    Propaganda and Censorship During Canada's Great War, by Jeffery A. Keshen
    The University of Alberta Press
  • 1996
    Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947, by Donald G. Wetherell and Irene R.A. Kmet
    The University of Alberta Press
  • 1995
    Max Reger's Music for Solo Piano, by Helmut Brauss
    The University of Alberta Press
  • 1994
    The Amphibians and Reptiles of Alberta, by A.P Russel and A.M. Bauer
    The University of Alberta Press
    The University of Calgary Press