About Us

University of Manitoba Press is dedicated to producing books that combine important new scholarship with a deep engagement in issues and events that affect our lives. Founded in 1967, the Press is widely recognized as a leading publisher of books on Aboriginal history, Native studies, and Canadian history. As well, the Press is proud of its contribution to immigration studies, ethnic studies, and the study of Canadian literature, culture, politics, and Aboriginal languages. It also publishes a wide-ranging list of books on the heritage of the peoples and land of the Canadian prairies.

University of Manitoba Press is committed to working closely with its authors and to the wide dissemination of scholarly research. It sells its books through independent and national bookstore chains, to public and research libraries, and through the on-line community. The press has international distribution, and aggressively promotes its books to both the scholarly and trade markets to ensure the widest possible reach for its authors’ work.

Awards

  • 2011 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction: When the Other Is Me
  • 2010 Margaret McWilliams Award: Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age
  • 2010 First Peoples’ Writing Award: Taking Back Our Spirits
  • 2009 John W. Dafoe Book Prize: Lord Selkirk
  • 2009 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: Restoring the Balance
  • 2009 Carol Shields Award: Prairie Metropolis
  • 2009 Manuela Dias Illustrated Book Award: All Our Changes
  • 2009 Municipal Heritage Award (Education): For All We Have and Are
  • 2009 Saskatchewan Book Award for Scholarly Writing: Taking Back Our Spirits
  • 2008 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction: Lord Selkirk
  • 2008 CAA Lela Common Award for Canadian History: Lord Selkirk
  • 2008 Margaret McWilliams Award: Lord Selkirk
  • 2008 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: Magic Weapons
  • 2007 Robert S. Kenny Prize in Marxist & Labour/Left Studies: A Great Restlessness
  • 2007 Mary Scorer Award: The North End
  • 2006 McNally Robinson Books of the Year: A Great Restlessness
  • 2006 Eileen McTavish Sykes Award: A Great Restlessness
  • 2006 Mary Scorer Award: A Great Restlessness
  • 2006 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction: A Great Restlessness
  • 2005 Literary Review of Canada’s 100 Most Important Canadian Books: A National Crime
  • 2005 Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction: Like the Sound of a Drum
  • 2004 Mary Scorer Award: Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba
  • 2004 Manuela Dias Illustrated Book Award: Freshwater Fishes of Manitoba
  • 2002 Jason A. Hannah Medal: A Very Remarkable Sickness
  • 2001 CASE Silver Medal: The University of Manitoba Illustrated History
  • 2001 Mary Scorer Award: The University of Manitoba Illustrated History
  • 2001 CHA Clio Award (Northern History): In Order to Live Untroubled
  • 1999 Margaret McWilliams Award:_ A National Crime_
  • 1996 Margaret McWilliams Award: The Ojibwa of Western Canada
  • 1995 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title: The Ojibwa of Western Canada
  • 1995 Margaret McWilliams Award: Severing the Ties that Bind

The University of Manitoba Press is grateful for the support it receives for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Manitoba Department of Culture, Heritage, and Tourism; the Manitoba Arts Council; and the Aid to Scholarly Publishing Programme.