Faculty awards
Dr. Penny Bryden - King Charles III Coronation Medal for service to the historical profession, 2024
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross - SSHRC Impact Award, 2022
Dr. Zhongping Chen - Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research, 2022
Dr. Rachel Cleves – Silver Medal for Excellence in Research, 2021
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross - REACH Award for Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization, 2021
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross - Provost's Award in Engaged Scholarship, 2020
Dr. Patricia Roy - British Columbia Medal of Good Citizenship, 2020
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross - Humanities Award for Research Excellence, 2019
Dr. Rachel Cleves - election to the Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, 2019
Dr. Georgia Sitara - Gilian Sherwin Award for Teaching Excellence, 2019
Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross - Canadian Race Relations Foundation Award, for excellence and innovation in combatting racism in Canada. Awarded to Landscapes of Injustice, 2018.
Dr. Elizabeth Vibert - REACH Award for Excellence in Knowledge Mobilization, 2018
Dr. Lynne Marks - REACH Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Supervision and Mentorship, 2017
Dr. Georgia Sitara - Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence, 2017
Dr. Oliver Schmidtke - Social Sciences award for Research Excellence, 2016
Dr. John Lutz - UVic Engaged Scholars Award, 2016
Dr. Simon Devereaux - Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence, 2015
Dr. Lynne Marks – Provost’s Award for Activism and Advocacy, 2015
Dr. Eric Sager - Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, 2014
Dr. Rachel Cleves - Humanities Award for Research Excellence, 2014
Dr. Kristin Semmens - Gilian Sherwin Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2013
Dr. Jason Colby - Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence, 2013
Dr. Patricia Roy - CHA Clio award for lifetime achievement, 2013
Dr. John Lutz - Craigdarroch Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2012
Dr. Eric Sager - Paz Buttedahl Career Achievement Award of the Confederation of Faculty Associations of BC, 2012
Dr. Sara Beam - Paris Institute for Advanced Studies Fellowship, 2012
Dr. Andrew Wender - Gilian Sherwin Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2012
Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk - Humanities Award for Research Excellence, 2011
Dr. Andrea McKenzie - Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence, 2011
Dr. Eric Sager - Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Communicating Research, 2011
Dr. Angus McLaren - Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, 2008
Dr. Peter Baskerville - Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, 2008
Dr. John Lutz, MERLOT Classics Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources, 2008
Dr. John Lutz, Pierre Berton Award for the Dissemination of Canadian History, 2008
Dr. Patricia Roy - Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, 2006
Dr. Andrew Rippin - Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, 2006
Dr. Peter Baskerville - Humanities Award for Research Excellence, 2006
Dr. Brian Dippie - Humanities Award for Teaching Excellence, 2006
Dr. John Lutz - Craigdarroch Award for Research Dissemination, University of Victoria, March 2006
Dr. Paul Wood - Humanities Award for Research Excellence, 2004
Dr. Angus McLaren - Humanities Award for Research Excellence, 2001
Dr. Greg Blue - Humanities Award for Teaching Excelelnce, 2001
Dr. Angus McLaren - Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, 1999
Dr. Alison Prentice - Elected to the Royal Society of Canada, 1998
Landscapes of Injustice: A New Perspective on the Internment and Dispossession of Japanese Canadians (McGill-Queens University Press, 2020), Jordan Stanger Ross, ed.
- Recipient of the John T. Saywell Prize in Legal History (2022)
- Shortlisted for the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize
At the Bridge: James Teit and an Anthropology of Belonging (UBC Press), Wendy Wickwire
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British Columbia Lieutenant Governor’s Medal for Historical Writing second prize
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Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize and the Basil Stuart Stubbs prize, the $10,000 Wilson Institute book prize
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Finalist in the running for the Ryga Award for Social Awareness.
Witness to Loss: Race, Culpability, and Memory in the Dispossesion of Japanese Canadians (McGill Queens University Press, 2017), Jordan Stanger-Ross with Pamela Sugiman
- Finalist for Wilson Institute Book Prize (2018)
The Thinking Garden, Elizabeth Vibert
- Matrix Award for BC Short Film, Vancouver International Women in Film Festival (2017)
- Official Selection at 15 international film festivals
Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014), Serhy Yekelchyk
- AAUS prize for Best Book in the fields of Ukrainian history, politics, language, literature, and culture, American Association for Ukrainian Studies.
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (Oxford University Press, 2014), Rachel Hope Cleves
- Stonewall Honor Book, American Library Association
- Winner of the Best Biography Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
The Business of Empire: United Fruit, Race, and U.S. Expansion in Central America (Cornell University Press, 2011), Jason M. Colby
- Honourable mention, Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations
- Honourable mention, Ralph Gomory Prize, Business History Conference
The Reign of Terror in America: Visions of Violence from Anti-Jacobinism to Antislavery (Cambridge, 2009), Dr. Rachel Cleves
- Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies and the Institut français de Washington, 2009
Death by a Thousand Cuts (Harvard University Press, 2008), Dr. Greg Blue
- Wallace Ferguson Book Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2009
Makuk A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations (UBC Press 2008), Dr. John Lutz
- Harold Adams Innis Prize, CFHSS, 2010
- Clio Award for BC, Canadian Historical Association, 2009
- CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2010
Laughing Matters: Farce and the Making of Absolutism in France (Cornell University Press, 2007), Dr. Sara Beam
- Bainton Prize in History, Sixteenth Century Society, 2008
- Shortlist, Wallace Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 2008
Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford University Press, 2007), Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk
- CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2007
Traders' Tales: Narratives of Cultural Encounters in the Columbia Plateau, 1807-1846 (University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), Dr. Elizabeth Vibert
- Albert Corey Prize, American Historical Association/Canadian Historical Association, 1999
- Honourable mention, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 1998
- Honourable mention, Wallace Ferguson Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 1998
Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late Nineteenth Century Small Town Ontario (University of Toronto Press, 1996), Dr. Lynne Marks
- Floyd S. Chalmers Award, best book published in Ontario history, 1996
Maritime Capital: The Shipping Industry in Atlantic Canada 1820-1914 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990), Dr. Eric Sager
- Honourable Mention, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 1990
- Keith Matthews Award, Canadian Nautical Research Society, 1990
- John Lyman Award, North American Society for Oceanic History, 1990
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989), Dr. Eric Sager
- Honourable Mention, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize, Canadian Historical Association, 1989
- Regional History Certificate of Merit, Canadian Historical Association, 1989
- Honourable Mention, J. W. Dafoe Foundation Award, 1989
- Honourable Mention, Keith Matthews Award, Canadian Nautical Research Society, 1989
- John Lyman Book Award for Canadian Maritime History, North American Society for Oceanic History, 1989
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“Remembering the Holocaust in a Settler Colonial City: The Case of Victoria, Canada” History & Memory 34, 1 (2022), with Dr. Lynne Marks. Recipient of the Swizter-Cooperstock Prize in Jewish History.
- Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross with Eric Adams and the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective - Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism Article Prize (2018) and Political History Group Prize for the Best English Language Article (2018) for “Promises of Law: The Unlawful Dispossession of Japanese Canadians" 2017.
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Dr. Jordan Stanger Ross with the Landscapes of Injustice Research Collective, has been awarded the prize for the best article to appear in the Journal of Planning History over a two-year span (2015-2017) by Society of American City and Regional Planning History for the article “Suspect Properties: The Vancouver Origins of the Forced Sale of Japanese-Canadian-owned Property, WWII,” which appeared in Journal of Planning History 15: 4 (Nov. 2016).
- Dr. Christine O'Bonsawin - Journal of Sport History Best Article of the Year award for 2015 for “From Black Power to Indigenous Activism: The Olympic Movement and the Marginalization of Oppressed Peoples (1968-2012).
- Dr. Peter Cook - William Koren, Jr. Prize awarded to the outstanding journal article published on any era of French history by a North American scholar in an American, European, or Canadian journal during 2015 for "Onontio Gives Birth: How the French in Canada Became Fathers to Their Indigenous Allies, 1645-73,” Canadian Historical Review, 96, no. 2 (July 2015): 165-193.
- Dr. Jordan Stanger-Ross - Canadian Committee on Migration, Ethnicity, and Transnationalism Article Prize (2014) for “Telling a Difficult Past: Kishizo Kimura’s Memoir of Entanglement in Racist Policy".
- Dr. Christine O'Bonsawin - Chapter titled “Indigenous Peoples and Canadian-Hosted Olympic Games” to Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues. This edited collection received the ‘Anthology Award in Sport History’ in 2014, awarded by the North American Society for Sport History.
- Dr. Rick Rajala - Forest History Society’s Theodore C. Blegen Award for the best 2012 article on forest and conservation history to appear in a journal other than Environmental History.
- Dr. Rachel Cleves - History of Children and Youth Group Prize for " ‘Heedless Youth’: The Revolutionary War Poetry of Ruth Bryant (1760-83).” William and Mary Quarterly 67, no. 3 (July 2010): 519-548.
- Dr. Simon Devereaux - Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (PCCBS) Article Prize for "Recasting the Theatre of Execution: The Abolition of the Tyburn Ritual.", 2009-2010.
- Dr. Lynne Marks - Switzer-Cooperstock Prize in Western Canadian Jewish History for "’Not being religious didn't take away from their Jewishness’: The complexities of lived religion among late 19th and early 20th century B.C. Jews”, 2010.
- Dr. Eric Sager - Founders’ Prize, Canadian History of Education Association, for “Women Teachers in Canada, 1881-1901: Revisiting the 'Feminization' of an Occupation”, 2007.
- Dr. Andrea McKenzie - American Society for Legal History's Surrency Prize for ‘“This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose” The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England’, 2005.
- Dr. Andrea McKenzie - Sutherland Prize for ‘“This Death Some Strong and Stout Hearted Man Doth Choose”: The Practice of Peine Forte et Dure in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England’, 2005.
- Dr. John Lutz - Journal of the West Best Article Prize for “When is an ‘Indian War’ not a War?: Canadian Indians and American Settlers in the Pacific Northwest, 1850s-1860s,” 2000.
- Dr. Rick Rajala - Theodore C. Blegen Award for “The Forest as Factory”, 1994.
- Dr. Rick Rajala - Ralph W. Hidy Award for "Bill and the Boss", 1990