Alison R. Marshall

Alison R. Marshall is Professor of Religion at Brandon University in Manitoba, Canada.

Alison R. Marshall is author of three monographs and two anthologies: The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba (2011) 2015 Canadian Society for the Study of Religion Book Prize and Manitoba Day Award recipient, Cultivating Connections: The Making of Chinese Prairie Canada (2014) both with UBC press, Bayanihan and Belonging: Filipinos & Religion in Canada (UofT Press, 2018), and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion and Migration (May 2022) with Rubina Ramji (first author), Alison Marshall (second author) and The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religious Ecstasy (2025) (first author), with Rubina Ramji and Michael Wilkinson. Marshall has also worked as a cultural consultant for Disney and Pixar Animation Studios on the Oscar nominated film Turning Red. Marshall is working on a sixth book on KMT culture.

Alison Marshall is former President of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, and former Chair of The City of Winnipeg, Mayor’s Multi-faith and Culture Liaison Circle. Marshall is also former co-chair of the American Academy of Religion unit in Religion and Migration. In addition to her research and publications on the subject of religion and migration, Marshall has received multiple provincial, national and international research awards, including most recently in 2021 The William Norrie Arts and Culture Award recognizing her work with the Chinese community in Manitoba.