Dominique Marshall
Professor, Department of History, Carleton University
| Degrees: | B.A. (Montréal), Ph.D. (Montréal) |
| Email: | dominique_marshall@carleton.ca |
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| Website: | https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7919-9910 |
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Dominique Marshall is 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. Her current SSHRC funded research is on the role of Oxfam in Canadian transnational history 1943 – 2003. 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 received the King Charles III Coronation Medal in June 2024 for her services to the Canadian Historical Association.
Publications
Del Gaudio, C., Hallgrimsson, B., and Marshall, D. (2022). “Supporting research on gender and design amongst STEAM researchers in the souths: A case study of subsumption in design methods.” In D. Lockton, S. Lenzi, P. Hekkert, A. Oak, J. Sádaba, & P. Lloyd (Eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July.
Glassford, S., Marshall, D., Trainor, C., Dutil, E., & Webster, D. (2024). “Creating Development Archives Ethically from an Over-Developed Country.” Revue internationale des études du développement, December 31, 2024.
Jennissen, T., Marshall, D., Trainor, C., & Robertson, B. (2023). “Creating, Archiving and Exhibiting Disability History: The Oral Histories of Disability Activists of the CUDRG.” First Monday, 28(1).
Marshall, D. (2021). “Ethical Traditions in Humanitarian Photography and the Challenges of the Digital Age.” Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 3, 2.
Marshall, D. (2021). “Visual Media and Development Education in Canadian Schools.” Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 3, 2: 45–56.
Marshall, D. (2023). “Teaching Human Rights History.” American Review of Canadian Studies, 53:1.
Marshall, D. (2026). “Traditions in Canada’s Engagement with the Global Refugee Regime: The Work of Captain Leslie G. Chance, Civil Servant (1914–1958).” In N. Benson, J. Milner, & D. Nakache (Eds.), Canada and the Global Refugee Regime: Continuity, Change, Challenges and Critiques. University of Toronto Press.
Marshall, D. (2015). “Usages de la notion de « droits des enfants » par les populations coloniales : la Conférence de l’enfance africaine de 1931.” Relations internationales, no. 161, printemps 2015.
Marshall, D. (2015). “Children’s Drawings and Humanitarian Aid: Transnational Expressions and Exhibits.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 26, 1.
Marshall, D. (2021). “Breaking Historical Barriers.” In J. Campbell-Miller, G. Donaghy, & S. Barker (Eds.), Breaking Barriers, Shaping Worlds: Canadian Women and the Search for Global Order. University of Calgary Press.
