Dominique Clément
Dominique Clément is an Associate Professor of sociology at the University of Alberta, which he joined in 2008. He is a Canadian historical sociologist who specializes in human rights law and activism as well as social movements. His is an adjunct professor in the Departments of History and Classics, and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Alberta.
He is the founder and creator of the Canada's Human Rights History, which is a popular teaching and research portal on the history of human rights in Canada. His Facebook (HistoryOfRights) and Twitter (@HistoryOfRights) sites explore current affairs in human rights and social movements in Canada.
Biography
He earned his B.A. from Queen's University Kingston, a Master of Arts from University of British Columbia, and his PhD from Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney in Australia as well as 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, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Toronto Star and the Vancouver Sun. He is the author of the award-winning books Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State and Human Rights in Canada: A History. He is also the co-editor for Alberta's Human Rights Story and Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties. Clément is the author of numerous articles on the history of human rights, social movements, legal history, labour history and women’s history. He has consulted for the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Canadian Museum for Human Rights and the Canadian Heritage Information Network. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Centre for Constitutional Studies University of Alberta and the Canadian Committee on Women’s History. He is a former board member of the 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 is currently an Associate Editor for the Canadian Review of Sociology and a Research Affiliate with the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society.
Publications
- Human Rights in Canada: A History' (2016, Wilfrid Laurier University Press)
- Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State (2014, University of British Columbia Press)
- Canada’s Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change (2008, University of British Columbia Press)
- Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties (2012, University of Toronto Press)
- Alberta's Human Rights Story (2012, John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights)
- People's Citizenship Guide: A Response to Conservative Canada edited by Adele Perry and Esyllt Jones (2012, ARP Books)
- The Academy as Community: A Manual of Best Practices for Meeting the Needs of New Scholars (2004, Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
External links
- Canada's Human Rights History
- Detailed biography and list of publications
- Dominique Clément interview on TV Rogers on the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics
- Dominique Clément debates Pearl Elidais on CBC's The 180 on rights inflation
- Joseph Brean. “The dark side of ‘rights inflation': Why activists should ‘reject the impulse to frame all grievances as human rights‘.” National Post, 1 June 2015.
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Canada's Rights Revolution
- Equality Deferred
- Human Rights in Canada
- Debating Dissent
Honours
Clément was awarded the John Porter Traditional of Excellence Book Award from the Canadian Sociological Association for Canada’s Rights Revolution. His book, Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 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). In 2014, he was awarded the Faculty of Arts Research Award at the University of Alberta.
References
- Biography on HistoryOfRights.ca
- Canada's Rights Revolution
- Equality Deferred
- Human Rights in Canada
- Department of Sociology Faculty page
- Canadian Civil Liberties Association Board of Directors
- Canadian Historical Association