Matthew Farish, Associate Professor

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
UBC (2003)
Other Degrees:
BA Hons., UBC (1998)
Contact Information:
Phone: (416) 978-6671
Location: Room 5040, Sidney Smith Hall (100 St. George)
Email: farish@geog.utoronto.ca
Twitter: @mattfarish
Personal Website: https://geography.utoronto.ca/matt-farish-home-page/
Research Interests:
- Militarism, geopolitics, and geographical knowledge
- The global Cold War
- Environmental history
- Urban culture
Teaching This Academic Year:
GGR240H1S: Geographies of Colonialism in North America
GGR360H1S: Culture, History and Landscape
Selected Publications:
The Contours of America’s Cold War (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
“Nuclear Landscapes,” Progress in Human Geography (in press) (with L. Pitkanen).
“The Ordinary Cold War: The Ground Observer Corps and Mid-Century Militarization in the United States,” Journal of American History 103.3 (2016), 629-655.
“Canons and Wars: American Military Geography and the Limits of Disciplines,” Journal of Historical Geography 49 (2015), 39-48.
Research Clusters:
Political Spaces