Book Series
AFRICA: MISSING VOICES
ISSN 1703-1826
This series illuminates issues and topics concerning Africa that have been ignored or are missing from current global discourse. These titles address concerns that been long overlooked in political, social, and historical discussions about this continent. A primary focus is local governance issues. This series is intended to be published in open access format in collaboration with African university presses and libraries.
Series Editor:
Donald Ray
Professor, Political Science
Chair, Traditional Authority Applied Research Network (TAARN)
University of Calgary
- Grass-Roots Governance? Chiefs in Africa and the Afro-Caribbean
- The African Diaspora in Canada: Negotiating Identity and Belonging
- A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
- New Directions in African Education: Challenges and Possibilities
- Shrines in Africa: History, Politics and Society
- The Land Has Changed: History, Society, and Gender in Colonial Eastern Nigeria
- African Wars: A Defense Intelligence Perspective
- Reinventing African Chieftaincy in the Age of AIDS, Gender, Governance, and Development
- The Politics of Access: University Education and Nation Building in Nigeria, 1948-2000
ART IN PROFILE: CANADIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE
ISSN 1700-9995
Art in Profile showcases the contribution of contemporary Canadian artists and architects both emerging and established. Each book provides insight into the life and work of an artist or architect whose innovative and creative imagination is “making a difference, making us think.”
Series Editor:
Geoffrey Simmins
Professor, Department of Art
Associate Dean (Research and Planning), Faculty of Fine Arts
University of Calgary
- Ancestral Portraits: The Colour of My People
- Magic off Main: The Art of Esther Warkov
- The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor
- Reta Summers Cowley
- Spirit Matters: Ron (Gyo-Zo) Spickett, Artist, Poet, Lay-Priest
- Full Spectrum: The Architecture of Jeremy Sturgess
- Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras
- The Art of John Snow
- Cover and Uncover: Eric Cameron
BEYOND BOUNDARIES: CANADIAN DEFENCE AND STRATEGIC STUDIES
ISSN 1716-2645
Canada’s role in international military and strategic studies ranges from peacebuilding and Arctic sovereignty to unconventional warfare and domestic security. This series provides narratives and analyses of the Canadian military from both an historical and a contemporary perspective.
Series Editor:
Rob Huebert
Professor, Political Science
Associate Director of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies
Chair, Editorial Board, University of Calgary Press
University of Calgary
- Art or Memorial?: The Forgotten History of Canada's War Art
- The Generals: The Canadian Army's Senior Commanders in the Second World War (2nd edition)
- In the National Interest: Canadian Foreign Policy and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, 1909-2009
- Occasional Papers Series
ENERGY, ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT
ISSN 1919-7144
The Alberta landscape is the focal point for international discussions about energy and natural resources, and ecological and environmental concerns.
- Places: Linking Nature, Culture and Planning
- A New Era for Wolves and People: Wolf Recovery, Human Attitudes and Policy
- The World of Wolves: New Perspectives on Ecology, Behaviour and Management
CANADIAN HISTORY AND ENVIRONMENT
ISSN 1925-3702
This new series explores topical issues in Canadian history as seen through an environmental lens. It launches a new partnership between the University of Calgary Press and the Network in Canadian History & Environment/Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement (NiCHE).
Series Editor:
Alan MacEachern
Associate Professor, Department of History
Director, NiCHE: Network in Canadian History & Environment
University of Western Ontario
CINEMAS OFF CENTRE
ISSN 1912-3094
This series presents cutting-edge research that provokes and inspires new interdisciplinary explorations of past, present, and emerging cinematic trends by individuals and groups of
filmmakers from around the world. The series has a strong interest in Canadian subjects.
Series Editor:
Darrell Varga
Canada Research Chair in Contemporary Film and Media Studies
NSCAD University (Nova Scotia College of Art and Design)
- Filming Politics: Communism and the Portrayal of the Working Class at the National Film Board of Canada, 1939-46
- Rain/Drizzle/Fog: Film and Television in Atlantic Canada
LATIN AMERICAN & CARIBBEAN STUDIES
ISSN 1498-2366
This series redefines our understanding of historical and current issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Series Editor:
Christon Archer
Professor, Department of History
Director, Latin American Research Centre
University of Calgary
- Waking the Dictator: Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927
- The Spirit of Hidalgo: The Mexican Revolution in Coahuila Mexican Nation
- Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age: The Guadalajara Church and the Idea of the Mexican Nation (1788-1853)
- Monuments of Progress, Modernization and Public Health in Mexico City, 1876-1910
- Madness in Buenos Aires: Patients, Psychiatrists and the Argentine State, 1880-1983
- Patrons, Partisans, and Palace Intrigues: The Court Society of Colonial Mexico, 1702-1710
- From Many, One: Peasants, Borders and Education in Callista, Mexico, 1924-35
- Violence in Argentine Literature and Film (1989-2005)
- Latin American Cinemas: Local Views and Transnational Connections
Turning Points (ISSN 1716-9429 - series discontinued in 2010)
- Trade Negotiations in Agriculture: A Future Common Agenda for Brazil and Canada?
- Relocating Identities in Latin American Cultures
- Negotiating Identities in Modern Latin America
NORTHERN LIGHTS
ISSN 1701-0004
The circumpolar North is an area of contemporary discussion and historical fascination. This series highlights diverse areas of northern scholarship, including natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
Series Editor:
William Barr
Fellow in residence, Arctic Institute of North America
Co-published with the Arctic Institute of North America
- NUNAVIK: Inuit-Controlled Education in Arctic Quebec
- Many Faces of Gender: Roles and Relationships through Time in Indigenous Northern Communities
- New Owners in Their Own Land: Minerals and Inuit Land Claims
- War North of 80: The Last German Arctic Weather Station of World War II
- Writing Geographic Exploration: Thomas James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-3
- As Long as this Land Shall Last: A History of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11, 1870-1939
- Breaking Ice: Renewable Resources and Ocean Management in the Canadian North
- Alliance and Conflict: The World System of the Inupiaq Eskimos
- Tanana and Chandalar: The Alaska Field Journals of Robert A. McKennan
- Resurrecting Dr. Moss: The Life and Letters of a Royal Navy Surgeon, Edward Lawton Moss MD, RN, 1843-1880
- Lands that Hold One Spellbound: A Story of EAst Greenland
- Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Reframing Human Ecology in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic
- Arctic Scientist, Gulag Survivor: The Biography of Mikhail Mikhailovich Ermolaev, 1905-1991
THE WEST
ISSN 1922-6519
This series focuses on creative non-fiction that explores our sense of place in the West. How do we define ourselves as Westerners and what impact do we have on the world around us? Essays, biographies, memoirs, and insights into Western Canadian life and experience are highlighted.
Series Editor:
Aritha van Herk
Professor, Department of English
University of Calgary
- Looking Back: Canadian Women's Prairie Memoirs and Intersections of Culture, History and Identity
- Always an Adventure, An Autobiography by Hugh A. Dempsey
- Promoters, Planters and Pioneers: The Course and Context of Belgian Settlement in Western Canada
- Happyland: A History of the "Dirty Thirties" in Saskatchewan, 1914-37
- The Cowboy Legend: Owen Wister's Virginian and the Canadian-American Frontier
NON-SERIES MONOGRAPHS
We also welcome manuscripts that do not neatly fall under any of the above series. While our areas of interest and our resources focus around the series, we are always interested in reading manuscripts that make a difference and make us think. Please feel free to submit your manuscript for our review.
- Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era
- After Appropriation: Explorations in Comparative Religion and Philosophy
- Grey Matters: A Guide to Collaborative Research with Seniors



