David Dean
Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus
| Degrees: | B.A. (Auckland), M.A. (Auckland), Ph.D. (Cambridge) |
| Email: | david.dean@carleton.ca |
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David Dean is a Distinguished Research Professor and Professor Emeritus in the History Department at Carleton University. Formerly Co-Director of the Carleton Centre for Public History and co-ordinator of Carleton’s MA in Public History program, he continues to contribute to the Centre’s activities and leads the Capital History project. The project is discussed in his most recent publication, “Pop-up History: Taking History to the Streets in Canada’s Capital City,” in Joanna Woyden and Dorota Wiśniewska (ed) History in Public Space (Routledge, 2024). David edited A Companion to Public History (Wiley-Blackwell, 2018) and he has published widely in journals and essay collections in the field.
David has two books in the press – In Granite and Bronze: An Unofficial Guide to the Monuments of the National Capital Region co-edited with Tonya Davidson (McGill-Queen’s) and Performing Public History (Routledge) – and is currently working on a third, The Challenge of Public History for the Cambridge Elements series. David is co-editor (with Andreas Etges) of International Public History the journal of the International Federation for Public History and was a member of the steering committee of IFPH between 2016 and 2024. David speaks regularly at international public history conferences, workshops, and seminars and, on a local level, is President of the Ottawa-based Workers’ History Museum.