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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 杏吧原创 University. Formerly Co-Director of the 杏吧原创 Centre for Public History and co-ordinator of 杏吧原创鈥檚 MA in Public History program, he continues to contribute to the Centre鈥檚 activities and leads the project. The project is discussed in his most recent publication, 鈥淧op-up History: Taking History to the Streets in Canada鈥檚 Capital City,鈥 in Joanna Woyden and Dorota Wi艣niewska (ed) 听(Routledge, 2024). David edited听(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鈥檚) and Performing Public History (Routledge) 鈥 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鈥 History Museum.