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Caroline D'Amours

Caroline D'Amours

Assistant Professor

Royal Military College of Canada

caroline.damours@rmc-cmr.ca

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Caroline D’Amours is an assistant professor at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, a research associate at Boston University’s International History Institute, and a regular researcher with the Groupe de recherche en histoire de la guerre. A specialist in Canadian military history, her current research focuses on the training of Canadian infantrymen from 1939 to 1945 and the participation of Quebec society in the two world wars.

Research Interests:

  • Military Culture
  • French Canada’s reaction to, and participation in, world wars
  • Canadian Army Combat Training in the Second World War

Recent Publications:

  • (with Catherine Mavriplis et Hannah Young), The Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering Program - Canada's CWSE from 1996 to 2023, New York, Springer Nature (2024).
  • "La question de l'engagement du Canada français" in Claude Quétel (ed.), La Seconde Guerre mondiale vue autrement, Paris, Éditions, Buchet Chastel (2022), p. 30-45.
  • "Canadian Military Culture and Tactical Training, 1940 – 1944: The Making of Infantry Junior NCOs", Journal of Military History, vol. 82, no 4 (October 2018), p. 1175-1198.
  • "Idéalistes, pragmatiques et les autres : Profil des volontaires du Régiment de la Chaudière, 1939-1945", Social History, vol. 51, no 103 (May 2018), p. 125-147.
  • "La formation du 22e Bataillon au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale. La fin de l’exception canadienne-française ?" in Courtois, Charles-Philippe et Laurent Veyssière (eds.), Le Québec dans la Grande Guerre. Engagements, refus, héritages, Québec, Septentrion, 2015, p. 41-55.