Matthew Farish
Associate Professor, Department of Geography & Planning
Areas of interest
- Culture & history
- Social & political geography
- Urban
- The U.S. militarization of the planet
- Landscape, environment, and the Cold War in North America
- Geographical knowledge and the human sciences
- Settler colonialism
- Urban cultural geography
Biography
Main Bio
I am a historical geographer, and much of my work has been concerned with relationships between militarization, geographical knowledge, and landscapes in the twentieth-century United States. I am currently working on two book projects: A history of the US militarization of the planet in the middle of the twentieth century (funded by SSHRC), looking backward and forward from that period, as understood through the construction and use of climate laboratories, proving grounds, and survival schools; and a series of overlapping essays on urban culture in the US from 1940 to 1990.