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Dominique Marshall<\/strong> is Professor of History at Carleton University. She teaches and researches the past of social policies, children\u2019s rights, humanitarian aid, disability and technology, refugees, and the extraction of natural resources. Her current SSHRC funded research is on the role of Oxfam in Canadian transnational history 1943 \u2013 2003. She helps coordinate the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History<\/a>, which supports the rescue of archives of Canadian development and aid and the Carleton University Disability Research Group<\/a>. She is a Co-Investigator of the Partnership Local Engagement Refugee Research Network <\/a>where she is a member of RLO Archives Working Group; of the Humanitarian Archives Emergency<\/a>; the Learning with and from the global South: Young women and girls with disabilities create networks for change<\/a>; the xDX project: Documenting, Linking, and Interpreting Canada\u2019s Design Heritage<\/a>; and of the teaching website Recipro: the history of international and humanitarian aid<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dominique Marshall has been President of the Carleton University Academic Staff Association (CUASA) since 2023, and Member at Large of the Executive of the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) since 2025. 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<\/em> 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\u2019\u00c9tat providence<\/em> (1998) (available in English as The Social Origins of the Welfare State<\/a><\/em> (2006)) received the Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize (now Canada Prize) from the CFSSH. She received the King Charles III Coronation Medal<\/a> in June 2024 for her services to the Canadian Historical Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, member of the advisory board of Resilient Humanitarianism<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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