William Wicken | History Department | Governor General Award Winner

History professor William Wicken is this year's winner of the Governor General's History Award for Scholarly Research: The Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for best history book.
Written by William C. Wicken, a history professor at York University, The Colonization of Mi'kmaw Memory and History, 1794-1928: The King v. Gabriel Sylliboy is a "finely crafted and tightly argued study of memory and meaning," judges said, "written in a style that is spare and clean, makes imaginative use of a wide range of existing sources to answer innovative epistemological questions fundamental to the historical project."
The winner of the Sir John A Macdonald Prize will receive his award from the Right Honourable David Johnston this November at the Governor General's History Awards, administered by Canada's History Society.
In addition, his book also won the Clio Prize for the outstanding contribution in 2012 to Atlantic Canadian History.
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