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Announcing the 2025 BC Studies Prize Winner: JP Catungal and May Farrales!

May 6, 2026

We are pleased to award the annual BC Studies Prize to JP Catungal and May Farrales for their article “The Race to Indigeneity: Three Vexations in Filipinx Diasporic Politics,” published in issue no. 227 (Autumn 2025).

Runners-up:

Nathan Crompton, “Every Homeowner a Pretendian? On Locke, Abstraction, and the Architecture of West Coast Modernism” published in BC Studies no. 226 (Summer 2025)

and Rebecca Hartley, “In the Empire She Loved So Well”: Imperial Legitimacies and the Writing of The Pioneer Women of Vancouver Island (1928)” published in BC Studies no. 225 (Spring 2025)

Read the winning articles open access on OJS!

We acknowledge that we live and work on unceded Indigenous territories and we thank the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations for their hospitality.