Dominique Clément

Dominique Clément

Dominique Clément is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta. He is a member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists. He is a Canadian historical sociologist who specializes in human rights, the nonprofit sector, and social movements including the use of digital tools for research in the humanities and social sciences. He is an adjunct professor in the Departments of History, Classics & Religion as well as Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta and the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology] at Dalhousie University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney in Australia, Beijing Normal University in China, KU-Leuven University in Belgium, and NUI Galway in Ireland.

Clément is the founder and creator of Canada's Human Rights History, which is a popular teaching and research portal on the history of human rights in Canada. His Facebook (HistoryOfRights), Instagram (HistoryofRights), and X (@HistoryOfRights) sites explore current affairs in human rights, the nonprofit sector, and social movements in Canada. He was the Principal Investigator of a national research team that included numerous community partners engaged in an examination of the relationship between public funding and the nonprofit sector in Canada: State Funding for Social Movements. One of the major deliverables of this project was an archive and searchable public database of government grants to NGOs since the 1960s.

Biography

Clément earned his B.A. (Honours) from Queen's University at Kingston, a Master of Arts from University of British Columbia, and his PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Birmingham and the University of Victoria.

Clément is a public intellectual whose work has been profiled on radio, television and print media including the CBC, Radio-Canada, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star, Edmonton Journal and the Vancouver Sun. He is the author of award-winning books including Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change (UBC Press, 2008) (reprinted in Japanese by Akashi Press), Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia's Human Rights State (UBC Press, 2014), Human Rights in Canada: A History (WLU Press, 2016), and Debating Rights Inflation: A Sociology of Human Rights (WLU Press, 2018). He is also the co-editor for Alberta's Human Rights Story (John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, 2012) and Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties (University of Toronto Press, 2012). Clément is the author of numerous articles on human rights, social movements, immigration policy, Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood, public finances, My Hero Academia, the Olympic Games, Freedom of information law, Naruto, national security and counter-terrorism policy, legal history, labour history, and women's history.

Clément has consulted for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. He is a former board member of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Centre for Constitutional Studies, the https://ccwgh-cchfg.com Canadian Committee on Women's History], John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, Association for Canadian Studies, L’Institut d’études canadiennes de l’Université de l’Alberta, Canadian Committee on Labour History, British Columbia Civil Liberties Association and the Canadian Historical Association. Clément has served as Managing Editor for the Canadian Review of Sociology and Associate Editor for the Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. He is a Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society as well as a Co-Investigator with the Child and Youth Refugee Research Coalition.

Dr. Dominique Clément at the McGill Faculty of Law

Honours

Clément was elected to the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists in 2018. He was awarded the John Porter Traditional of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association for Canada's Rights Revolution. His book, Equality Deferred, was awarded the Canadian Historical Association Clio Book Prize and an Honourable Mention for the Canadian Law and Society Association book award (it was also a finalist for the Canada Prize in Social Sciences and shortlisted for the Donald V. Smiley award from the Canadian Political Science Association). Another book, Human Rights in Canada, was a finalist for the INDIE Book Awards. In 2014, 2017, and 2022 he was awarded the Faculty of Arts Research Award at the University of Alberta and, in 2018, he was awarded the Bill Meloff Memorial Teaching Award at the University of Alberta.

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