BC Studies Prize

2025 BC Studies Prize

John Paul Catungal and May Farrales, “The Race to Indigeneity: Three Vexations in Filipinx Diasporic Politics,”                  BC Studies no. 227 (Autumn 2025).

Runners up: Nathan Crompton, “Every Homeowner a Pretendian? On Locke, Abstraction, and the Architecture of West Coast Modernism,” 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),” BC Studies no. 225 (Spring 2025).

2024 BC Studies Prize

Shianna McAllister, “Damming Colonial Evasion: An Accounting of the Unaccountable in the Mount Polley Mine Disaster,”  BC Studies no. 221 (Spring 2024)

Runners up: Jesse Robertson, “Lightkeepers on Huu-ay-aht Shores: Indigenous Labour and Knowledge in the History of Coastal Navigation,”  BC Studies no. 222 (Summer 2024)
and
Mayana Slobodian, “The Kitsilano Scandal: The Destruction of Sen̓áḵw As Told in Local Newspapers, 1913-16,”  BC Studies no. 222 (Summer 2024)

2023 BC Studies Prize

Sarah Hunt, “Looking for Lucy Homiskanis, Confronting Emily Carr: Restorying Nature, Gender, and Belonging on the Northwest Coast,”  BC Studies no. 217 (Spring 2023)

Runner up: Dorota Kupis, “The Political Struggle Behind the Delgamuukw Case: The 1994-1996 Trilateral Treaty Negotiations with the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en,”  BC Studies no. 216 (Winter 2022/ 2023)

2022 BC Studies Prize

Emma Feltes and Sharon H. Venne, “Decolonization, Not Patriation: The Constitution Express at the Russell Tribunal,” BC Studies 212 (Winter 2021 /22)

Runner up: Sarah Nickel, “‘We’re Not Going to Stop for Anything’: Concerned Aboriginal Women and the Constitution Express,” BC Studies 212 (Winter 2021 /22)

2021 BC Studies Prize

Nicole Yakashiro, “Daffodils and Dispossession: Nikkei Settlers, White Possession, and Settler Colonial Property in Bradner, BC, 1914-51”, BC Studies no. 211

Runner up: Gabrielle Legault, “Making Métis Places in British Columbia: The Edge of the Métis Nation Homeland”, BC Studies no. 209

2020 BC Studies Prize:

Gordon Robert Lyall, “‘They smashed it right through our reserve’: The Problem of Settler Consultation for Infrastructure on Chawathil IR4,” published in BC Studies no. 207, Autumn 2020.

Runner up: Neilesh Bose, “Taraknath Das (1884–1958) British Columbia and the Anticolonial Borderlands“ published in BC Studies no. 204 Winter 2020.

2019 BC Studies Prize:

Johnnie Manson, “Workmanship and Relationships: Indigenous Food Trading and Sharing Practices on Vancouver Island,” published in BC Studies no. 200, Winter 2019.

Runner up: Glenn Iceton, “‘Many Families of Unseen Indians’: Trapline Registration and Understandings of Aboriginal Title in the BC-Yukon Borderlands,” published in BC Studies no. 201, Summer 2019.

2018 BC Studies Prize:

It’s a tie!

Becki Lee Ross and Jamie Lee Hamilton, “‘Loss Must Be Marked and it Cannot Be Represented’: Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End,” published in BC Studies no. 197, Spring 2018

Tania Willard and Karen Duffek, “Make Yourself (Un)comfortable: Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun at  the Museum,” published in BC Studies no. 199, Autumn 2018

2017 BC Studies Prize:

Nicolas Graham, “State-Capital Nexus and the Making of BC Shale and Liquefied Natural Gas,”published in BC Studies no. 194, Summer 2017.

Runner up: George Abbott, “Persistence of Colonial Prejudice and Policy in British Columbia’s Indigenous Relations: Did the Spirit of Joseph Trutch Haunt Twentieth-Century Resource Development?” published in BC Studies no. 194, Summer 2017.

2016 BC Studies Prize

Sabina Trimble, “Storying Swílcha: Place-making and Power at a Stó:lõ Landmark,” published in BC Studies 190, Histories of Settler Colonialism in the Summer of 2016.

Runner up: Thomas McIlwraith and Raymond Corimer, “Making Place for Space: Site-specific Land Use and Occupancy Studies in the Context of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Tsilhqot’in Decision,” published in BC Studies 188 in the Winter of 2015/16.

2015 BC Studies Prize

Caroline Grego, “Maybe National Park: Consultation, Conservation, and Conflict in the Okanagan-Similkameen,” published in BC Studies 186 in the Summer of 2015.

Runner up: Mica Jorgenson, “‘Into That Country to Work’: Aboriginal Economic Activities during Barkerville’s Gold Rush,” published in BC Studies 185 in the Spring of 2015.