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

2011 The University of Alberta Press (Edmonton)
The Beginning of Print Culture in Athabasca Country, by Patricia Demers, Naomi McIlwraith and Dorothy Thunder, Translators
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 ASL, 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 and 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