Research Team
Principal Investigators
Dominique Marshall is Professor of History at Carleton University. She teaches and researches the past of social policy, children’s rights, humanitarian aid, refugees, disability and technology. She coordinates the Canadian Network on Humanitarian History, which supports the rescue of archives of Canadian development and aid, co-directs the Carleton University Disability Research Group, the IDRC funded program Gendered Design in STEAM, 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.
Therese Jennissen is an Associate Professor at Carleton University where she teaches and researchers primarily in the areas of history and social policy, with a focus on women. She is co-author of One Hundred Years of Social Work: A history of the Profession in English Canada, 1900-2000, one of the first thorough histories of the social work profession in Canada. Other published works include a history of radical female social worker’ contribution to the profession; gendered dimensions of occupational health and safety in the work place, history of workers’ compensation in Ontario, and the social and economic impact of policy changes on the status of women. She also has published on the effects of economic transformations on women in Cuba and Russia. More recently she has turned her attention to international comparative social policies and the significance of developing methodologies for comparative policy research.
Research Consultants
Hollis Peirce is an individual with congenital Muscular Dystrophy, who has recently graduated from Carleton University with an MA in History and a specialization in Digital Humanities. He wrote his thesis on the history of academic accessibility in post-secondary institutes using Carleton University as a case study. He began studying history after discovering it through his passion for politics and famous political figures of the past. He has lived in Ottawa for over 20 years but he is originally from Edmonton, Alberta, which is why he is, and always will be, an Edmonton Oilers fan.
Sandy Barron completed his PhD in History at Carleton University in the Spring of 2021, under the supervision of Dominique Marshall and Kristin Snoddon. He studies histories of deaf politics in Western Canada and is working on a biography of Canadian deaf educator R.J.D. Williams. He is currently Senior Researcher at CDCI Research.
Research Assistants
Alicia Kalmanovitch is a PhD candidate at Carleton University’s School of Social Work. She is a registered social worker and is passionate about community development, social policy, social work education, and the history of the profession. Her current academic work focuses on the Holocaust.
Ann Seymour is Anishinaabe from Wikwemikong, Ontario, an Indian Residential Intergenerational Trauma Survivor. Ann is married to a registered member of the Mohawks of Akwesasne, she and her husband have grounded 4 children, all of who are now young adults, growing their own roots. Ann is currently doing her PhD, her research interests are applying a two-eyed seeing approach to improve mental health of Indigenous youth by integrating land based activities, ultimately to end suicide.
Margaret Janse van Rensburg is a PhD candidate in Carleton University’s School of Social Work. She also holds an Honours Bachelors of Arts in Archaeology and Medieval Studies and Graduate Certificate in Autism and Behaviour Sciences. Her current research and practice stresses strengths and empowerment approaches working alongside autistic adults. You can find out more about Margaret’s research here: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0780-7945
Raeann Au is interested in Canadian political, military, and colonial history. She has worked as an Undergraduate Research Assistant on projects related to Oral Histories of Activists in the Disability Rights Movement in Canada (1970-2020) through Carleton’s I-CUREUS program. As part of the FASS Summer Research Internship, Raeann researched the portrayal of race, gender, and settler colonialism in children’s animation movies – specifically Disney’s Atlantis: The Lost Empire and DreamWorks’ The Road to El Dorado. Raeann hopes to encourage new Carleton students to develop an interest in Canadian history and decolonization.