Dominique Marshall

Biography

Dominique Marshall is the History Department Chair at Carleton University. She teaches Canadian and Quebec history of poverty and welfare, families and childhood, state formation, as well as the transnational history of humanitarian aid, and Political Economy. She has written about the history of the Canadian welfare state, the history of children’s rights, and the Child Welfare Committee of the League of Nations. Her current research is about the Conference on the African Child of 1931, and the history of OXFAM in Canada. She was the president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2013 to 2015, and the French Editor of the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association for 20 years. She was trained at the Université de Montréal, with stays at Boston University, and the London School of Economics. 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 the Canada Prize) from the Canadian Federation of Social Sciences and Humanities.

Research Interest

Early history of OXFAM in Canada, 1945-present – Coordinator of the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History 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 disability – Co-Primary Investigator of the Carleton University Disability Research Group History of Carleton University