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Dominique Clément is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta and 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 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 [https://www.ualberta.ca/history-classics History and Classics] as well as [https://www.ualberta.ca/educational-policy-studies Educational Policy Studies] at the University of Alberta and the [https://www.dal.ca/faculty/arts/sociology-social-anthropology.html Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology] at Dalhousie University. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney in Australia, [http://english.bnu.edu.cn Beijing Normal University] in China, [https://www.kuleuven.be KU-Leuven University] in Belgium, and NUI Galway in Ireland.
Clément is the founder and creator of [http://historyofrights.ca/ Canada's Human Rights History], which is a popular teaching and research portal on the history of human rights in Canada. His [https://twitter.com/HistoryOfRights Facebook] (HistoryOfRights) and [https://twitter.com/HistoryOfRights Twitter] (@HistoryOfRights) sites explore current affairs in human rights and social movements in Canada. He was the Principal Investigator of a [http://www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca SSHRC]-funded national research team that included numerous community partners engaged in an examination of the relationship between public funding and the non-profit sector in Canada: [http://statefunding.ca/ State Funding for Social Movements]. One of the major deliverables of this project was an [https://www.statefunding.ca/archive/ archive] and [https://database.statefunding.ca searchable public database] of government grants to NGOs since the 1960s.
