Matthew S. Wiseman

Biography

Matthew Wiseman is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History in the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Tri-University Graduate Program in History, where his dissertation examined the human and environmental impact of military science in the Canadian North during the early Cold War. His postdoctoral research project explores the linkages between state, industrial and university institutions known as the ‘military-industrial-academic complex’ or the ‘politics-patronage-science nexus’. While this theme is deeply engrained in American and British scholarship on the Cold War, historians of Canada have yet to ask similar questions of the postwar Canadian defence establishment. Matthew Wiseman is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History in the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Department of History at the University of Toronto. He completed his PhD at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Tri-University Graduate Program in History, where his dissertation examined the human and environmental impact of military science in the Canadian North during the early Cold War. His postdoctoral research project explores the linkages between state, industrial and university institutions known as the ‘military-industrial-academic complex’ or the ‘politics-patronage-science nexus’. While this theme is deeply engrained in American and British scholarship on the Cold War, historians of Canada have yet to ask similar questions of the postwar Canadian defence establishment.

Research Interest

History