Dr. Dominique Marshall
Professor, Department of History, Carleton University
Office: 400 Paterson Hall
Telephone: (613) 520-2600 ext. 2846
Email: dominique_marshall@carleton.ca
Mailing Address: 1125 Colonel By Dr, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6
Dominique Marshall is a Professor of History at Carleton University. She teaches and researches the past of social policies, children’s rights, humanitarian aid, disability and technology, refugees, and the extraction of natural resources. She helps coordinate the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, which supports the rescue of archives of Canadian development and aid and the Carleton University Disability Research Group. She is a Co-Investigator of the SSHRC funded Partnership Local Engagement Refugee Research Network where she is a member of Archives, Living Histories and Heritage Working Group; of the SSHRC funded xDX project: Documenting, Linking, and Interpreting Canada’s Design Heritage; and of the teaching website Recipro: the history of international and humanitarian aid.
She writes about Canadian social policies and poor families, the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations, the Conference on the African Child of 1931, and the history of OXFAM in Canada.
She was President of the Ottawa Historical Association from 2019 to 2022. She was President of the Canadian Historical Association from 2013 to 2015, member of the Board of the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities (CFSSH) from 2012 to 2017, and French Editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association for 20 years. She has been year-long visiting fellow at the the London School of Economics, the School of Oriental and African Studies, and Oxford Brookes. Her book, Aux origines sociales de l’État providence (1998) (available in English as The Social Origins of the Welfare State (2006)) received the Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize (now Canada Prize) from the CFSSH.
She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, member of the advisory board of Resilient Humanitarianism funded by the Australian Research Council and of the Ottawa Historical Association, and affiliated to the Institute of Political Economy, the Canadian Accessibility Network and the Institute of African Studies of Carleton University.
Dr. Marshall is accepting graduate students in Canadian history, the transnational history of humanitarian aid, human rights, childhood and social policies, and she welcomes inquiries about specific areas of supervision.
Research Interests
- Early history of OXFAM in Canada, 1945-present
- Children’s rights and humanitarian aid to Africa, 1920-65
- Children’s rights and the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations
- Social policy, welfare, and the history of families
- 19th-20th c. Quebec
- History of science and technology
- History of disability
Recent CV: CV-MarshallDominique
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