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Dominique Marshall

Professor – 19th-20th c. Quebec; state formation; social policy, welfare, and the history of families; children’s rights and humanitarian aid in transnational perspectives

• B.A. (Montreal), Ph.D. (Montreal)
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Dominique Marshall is Professor of History at �Ӱ�ԭ�� 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 , which supports the rescue of archives of Canadian development and aid and the �Ӱ�ԭ�� University Disability Research Group. She is a Co-Investigator of the Partnership Local Engagement Refugee Research Network where she is a member of RLO Archives Working Group; of the ; the Learning with and from the global South: Young women and girls with disabilities create networks for change; the ; and of the teaching website .

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.

Dominique Marshall has been President of the �Ӱ�ԭ�� 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 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  (2006)) received the Jean-Charles Falardeau Prize (now Canada Prize) from the CFSSH. She received the  in June 2024 for her services to the Canadian Historical Association.

She is Adjunct Professor in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, member of the advisory board of  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 �Ӱ�ԭ�� 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

Current and Recent Teaching

• HIST 3301 Quebec since 1800 (Fall 2025)
• HIST 6906 PhD Tutorials in Canadian History – coordinator (Fall-Winter 2025-6)
• MGDS 5901 – Directed Reading Course: Unaccompanied and Separated Children in Canada: Historical and Contemporary Contexts (Winter 2026)

Recent Publications

“Traditions in Canada’s Engagement with the Global Refugee Regime: The Work of Captain Leslie G. Chance, Civil Servant (1914–1958),” inNathan Benson, James Milner and Delphine Nakache, eds. s, McGill Queen’s, 2026, pp. 28-84.

Sarah Glassford, Dominique Marshall, Chris Trainor, Eve Dutil et David Webster, « Creating Development Archives Ethically from an Over-Developed Country », Revue internationale des études du développement [En ligne], 256 | 2024, mis en ligne le 31 décembre 2024, consulté le 10 janvier 2025. URL :  ; DOI :

“,” American Review of Canadian Studies,53:1 (2023),118-130.

Jennissen, Therese, Dominique Marshall, Chris Trainor, and Beth Robertson. 2023. “”.&�Բ�����;First Monday 28 (1).

With Del Gaudio, K. Grace, C., and Hallgrimsson, B. (2023) Gendered Design in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), Final technical report Years 1 to 4 | April 1, 2019, to October 31, 2022, IDRC project: 108889. Ottawa, IDRC.

Del Gaudio, C., Hallgrimsson, B., and Marshall, D. (2022) , in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain.

“”, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 3, 2 (2021): 45-56.

“”, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs 3, 2 (2021): 57-64.

“Breaking Historical Barriers”, in Jill Campbell-Miller, Greg Donaghy and Stacey Barker (Eds.), , University of Calgary Press, October 2021, Conclusion.

“”, in Susan Phillips and Bob Wyatt (Eds.), Intersections and Innovations: Change for Canada’s Voluntary and Nonprofit Sector, Edmonton, AB, Canada: Muttart Foundation, 2021. Chapter 3, 16 pages.

“”, in Greg Donaghy and David Webster, dir. “A Samaritan State” Revisited: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Foreign Aid, 1950–2016, University of Calgary Press, 2019, pp. 333-394.

“.” The Canadian Historical Review 100, no. 2 (June 2019): 274–279.

“, Revue de la Société historique du Canada/Journal of the Canadian Historical Association, 26, 1 (2015), pp. 1-65.

“”,&�Բ�����;Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 96, no. 4 (Winter 2015), pp. 583-589.

““, Relations internationales, no. 161, printemps 2015, pp. 43-64.

“The Rise of Coordinated Action for Children in War and Peace: Experts at the League of Nations, 1924–1945”, inD. Rodogno, B. Struck, J. Vogel, eds. .  Transnational networks of experts and organizations (C. 1850–1930), New York, Berghahn Books, 2014, chapter 4.

“,” A Scholarly Tribute to Bettina Bradbury, Feminist Historian of the Family: A Roundtable Discussion, Labour/Le travail, 74 (fall 2014), pp. 270-275.

Recent Presentations

“Military history and history of humanitarian aid and development: crossroads.” Directorate of History and Heritage, Department of National Defence, Ottawa, DHH Seminar Series, 9 February 2026.

“Notes on histories of famine”, for “Holodomor 90: from Stalin’s famine to Putin’s missiles’, �Ӱ�ԭ�� university, Ottawa, �Ӱ�ԭ�� Ukrainian Students Club, 20 November 2023.

Hollis Peirce and Dominique Marshall, “The Progression of Disability Rights in Ottawa”, #Beyond Bytown Virtual Series, November 2023.

Raquel Noronha, Chiara Del Gaudio, and Dominique Marshall, “The making of a virtual public science portal about gendered design in STEAM from the Souths: co-designing to exhibit and exhibiting toco-design,” Annual Conference of Design History, Matosinhos, Portugal, September 2023.

“The League of Red Cross Societies & Disabled People: Transnational insights on war impairment, capacity & debility”, Geneva, June 2023, Symposium on “The League of Red Cross Societies: Historical Perspectives 1919-1991”.

“Approches transnationales des histoires du Québec,” Identités francophones contemporaines dans les espaces nords américains, Ottawa, Mars 2023. Médiations de l’identité francophone, Table Ronde “Québec in the Eye of the Other.”

“Roundtable on Teaching Human Rights History”, May 2022, Revisiting Human rights, A workshop on the History of Human rights in Canada, King’s College, Western University, Windsor, Canada.

“Learning History by Doing, Together and Online”, Collaborative Learning in the History Classroom, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, May 2022.

“1919 : A Revolution in Children’s Rights. Andrée Colin and the divided loyalties of the League of Nations Secretariat”, Keynote Address, “The People’s Conference: Transnational Legacies of 1919”, Royal Military College, Annual History Symposium, Kingston, November 2019. Also presented to the Ottawa Historical Association, September 2019.

“Understanding the history of the Ethiopian Red Cross, 1935-1975” and, with Beth Robertson, “People with disabilities and the Red Cross Movement, 1945-85”,  Histories of the Red Cross Movement since 1919, Geneva, 12-14 June 2019.

“Histoires de vie et archives privées dans l’histoire de l’aide humanitaire: questions d’éthique et de droits de l’homme”, Accès: Perspectives des historiens et des archivistes”, Colloque de l’ACFAS, Gatineau May 2019.

Recent Community and Media Contributions

Interview for “Investing in the Future: Preparing Students for the AI Revolution,” 27 March 2025, �Ӱ�ԭ�� Teaching and Learning Services.

Interview on “What Can Canada Learn from Previous U.S. Annexation Threats?”, The Agenda, TVO, 31 March 2025, 

“Dominican friar makes a study of Dominican African graphic novels,” M Magazine, Spring 2023/4,

Gendered Design in STEAM. “Gendered Design in Steam.” �Ӱ�ԭ�� University, 2022. /gendesignsteam/ (In collaboration)

Roundtable ““, September 2022, Canadian Historical Association.

““, Fall 2022.

Canada Day Radio Interview, City News, Sam Laprade Show, City News Ottawa, 1 July 2022.

“”, Blog, Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, 21 January 2022.

“”, with an Introduction by Sarah Glassford, Blog, CNHH, 8 December 2021.

“», Blog of the Canadian Science and Technology Association, November 2021, cross-posted from Gendered Design in STEAM Bulletin, Issue Five, November, 2021.

““, presentation given in , Recipro: the history of international and humanitarian aid, March 2021.

Convenor of the Shannon Lectures in History 2020 on Human Rights in the History of Canada.

Interview on Confederation for BBC2 television series “Great American [Canadian] Railroad Journeys”, Season 3, Episode 8 ““, Winter 2018 (see minute 19:45).

Participation à  “Le Canada d’hier à aujourd’hui”, Capsules d’histoire présentées au cours du Téléjournal de Radio Canada, 2017.

Interview for Kathan Kapoor, “,” The Charlatan, Special issue on “Legacy,” December 2025.

With Sonya De Laat, ““, CNHH Blog, 2 December 2016. Cross-posted in Active History, 6 December 2016.

Recent Supervisions

Honours Research Essays

Oonagh Burns, 2020 – “Art Picturing Disability in and after World War One.  Uses, Aesthetics and Impacts”.

Malinda Pich, 2019 – Oral History of Cambodian Refugees in Ottawa, Co-supervision with Laura Madokoro.

Kyleigh Gault, 2019 – “Teaching Difficult Topics in Ontario high School Curriculum: Lessons Learned from the Outreach Programs of the German T4 Memorial Museums”.

Emily Hill-Smith, 2018 – “Comfort While Dying: A Transnational History of Paediatric End of Life Care,” Child Studies.

MA Current and Recent Supervisions

Malinda Pich, 2025. ” ‘Negotiate A River By Following Its Bends; Enter A Country By Following Its Customs’: The Cambodian Diaspora In Canada – Changing Ideas Of Family Roles And Life Upon Resettlement 1970s To 1980s.” – Co-supervision with Laura Madokoro.

Emma Schlitt, 2025 – “Who Speaks for Mental Health? Negotiating Rights Between the State, Ngos and the Public in Nepal,” Human Rights.

Devin Prashad, 2025. “DISABLED or DIS-ABLED?: A Critical Analysis of Humanitarian Standards for Disabilities in Refugee Camps,” MRE, Migration and Diaspora Studies.

Katie Carson, 2025. “Towards a Transnational Understanding of the October Crisis.” Co-supervision with Laura Madokoro. Winner of the OCUFA Henry Mandelbaum Graduate Fellowships for Excellence in Social Sciences, Humanities, or Arts

Charlie Thomson, 2024 – Mapping Transnational Movements of Women in New France.

Anna-Karina Tabuñar, 2023. ” ‘You’re Going to Live, But Miserably:’ An Oral History of the Creation of the Long COVID Rehabilitation Pilot Program of the Ottawa Hospital.” MRE, History with Collaborative Specialization in Accessibility Studies.

Marvin Phung, 2023. “Constructing Canadian Multiculturalism through the Annual Reports on the Operation of the Canadian Multiculturalism Act, 1988-2022”, co-supervision with Laura Madokoro.

Karly Hurlock, 2018. Canadian humanitarian aid to India.  MRE. Co-supervision with Norman Hillmer.

Sarah Doersken, 2014.  “”. Co-supervision with Roy Hanes, Social Work.

Martha Attridge-Bufton, 2014. “”. Winner of the the 2014 for graduate work on Canadian labour and working-class history

PhD Current and Recent Supervisions

Helen Kennedy, 2024. . Co-supervision with Candace Sobers.

Sandy Barron, 2021. ““, Co-Supervision with Kristin Snoddon, Toronto Metropolitan University.

Stephen Osei-Owusu, 2020 – , Humanitarianism and Mining in Colonial Gold Coast – co-supervision with Candace Sobers.

Andriata Chironda, 2019. “,” Co-Supervision with James Milner, Political Sciences.

Suki Lee, 2015 – , “Women, mental health, artistic expression and confinement in late 19th century Montreal”.

Kirsten Widdes, 2025 – “The feminization of clerical work in Canada, with an emphasis on stenography companies and departments, owned and/or operated by women.” Co-supervision with Matt Bellamy.

Recent PhD Committees

Amie Wright, 2023 – , “When Canada Campaigned Against Comic Books: Censorship, Child Health, and Citizenship in the Postwar Period (1945-1970)”. Co-supervisors Jim Off and John Walsh.

Sarah Hart, 2022 – Canadian Soldiers’ Photographs of the Korean War, 1950-1954. Supervisor Jim Opp

Rachel McNally, 2022 – Refugees and disability in Canada. Political Science. Political Science, supervisor James Milner.

Carole Therrien, 2025. “One Life, One Love, One St. Martin: Middle-class Women Building Community Resilience In A Post-disaster Setting (2017 To 2025).” Supervisor Danielle Di Novelli Lang, Geography. Read the .

Henrique SchlumbergerVitchmichen, 2025 – “Refugee Letters and The Ukrainian Committee In The Second World War,” History, Federal University of Paraná (Brazil). Supervisor Marion Brepohl. Read the .

Federica De Sisto, 2026.  “Belonging and Identity in Italy: Black Women Migrants and the Shaping of Race, Gender, Citizenship and Nation in the Twentieth Century ” Supervisor: Shireen Hassim.

Post PhD

Katherine Rossy, 2019 – 2022, Children of the Holocaust, SSHRC, Co-supervision with Jennifer Evans.

Jill Campbell-Miller, 2018 – 2021, Canadian engineers and Indigenous Peoples at home and abroad, SSHRC.

Beth Robertson, 2020 – 2021, IDRC, Gender and Technology, Co-supervised with Bjarki Hallgrimsson, School of Design Engineering.