Matthew Trudgen 

Ph.D. Candidate/Teaching Fellow

E-mail: pcmatt_2000@yahoo.ca
Phone: 613-533-6000, ext: 77507
Fax: 613-533-6298
Office: Watson Hall 237

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About

Matt received his Honors BA in History and Political Science from Huron University College in 2003 and his Master of Arts in History from The University of Western Ontario in 2004. His interests line in the history of international relations and the Canadian-American bilateral defence relationship. He studies how both Canada and the United States have worked together in the past to protect North America from external threats. He is particularly interested in how Canadian policy makers have sought to balance American demands that Canada contribute to the defence of the continent with the protection of Canadian sovereignty.

He is currently writing his Ph.D. Dissertation how different conceptions of the Canadian national interest held by different groups within the Canadian political establishment and armed forces interacted with the Canada-U.S. relationship in the development of the North American air defence system in the 1950s. He is working under the supervision of Professor Allan English and Professor Joel Sokolsky of the Royal Military College of Canada.
He is also interested in Canadian military, diplomatic and political history, the history of the Cold War and American history.

Courses Taught

Hist 322 War and Modern Society, Queen's University, September 2009 to April 2010

Hist 124: Canada and the World, Queen's University, September 2008 to April 2009

Publications

Articles: (Refereed)

"Do We Want ‘Buckets of Instant Sunshine':? Canada and Nuclear Weapons, 1945 to 1984" for the Canadian Military Journal, Forthcoming.

Articles in Edited Collections:

"Good Partners or Just Brass Intrigue: The Transnational Relationship between the USAF and the RCAF with Respect to the North American Air Defence System, 1947 - 1960," In Maple Leaf Aloft: Historical Perspectives on Canadian Aerospace Leadership, Canadian Aerospace Warfare Centre, (Forthcoming).

Book Reviews:

Review of Alan Warren, Britain's Greatest Defeat: Singapore 1942, In Itinerario, Vol. xxxii, No. 2, (2008).

Review of Robert Bothwell, Alliance and Illusion: Canada and the World, 1945-1984," In H-Canada, H-Net Reviews, (July 2008). http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=21
1901216666792.

Review of Norman Polmar and Kenneth J. Moore, Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001, In International Journal of Naval History, (November 2007).

Review of Terry Copp, Cinderella Army: The Canadians in Northwest Europe, 1944-1945, In Michigan War Studies Review, (June 2007).

Review of George D. Boyce, The Falklands War, In The Journal of Interdisciplinary Twentieth Century Studies, (January 2006).

Conference Papers:

Mr. High Commissioner Meets the U.S. Army of Occupation: The Americans in the Canadian North, 1942-1945 at the 88th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, Carleton University, May 27 2009.

Good Partners or Just Brass Intrigue: The Transnational Relationship between the USAF and the RCAF with respect to the North American Air Defence System, 1947 - 1960 at the 14th Annual Air Force Historical Workshop, September 24, 2008.

Bilateralism, Unilateralism, and Transnationalism: The Canada-US Relationship and the Development of the North American Air Defence System, 1949 to 1956 at the Society of  istorians of American Foreign Relations Annual Meeting 2008, The Ohio State University,
June 28, 2008.

Balancing Sovereignty and Security: The Interplay of Different Conceptions of the Canadian National Interest and the Formation of NORAD, 1956-1958 at the Queen's Centre for International Relations 2007 Annual Conference "NORAD's Half Century: Securing and Defending North America," Queen's University, June 7, 2007

Canadian Decision Making on Nuclear Weapons, 1945 to 1969 at the 17th Military History Colloquium, University of Western Ontario, May 6, 2006

Encyclopedia Articles:

Articles on "Richard Clarke," "Continental United States NORAD Region," "Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line," "Anthony Lake" and "Northeast Air Defense Sector," Homeland Security Encyclopedia, Dennis Spillman ed, M.E. Sharpe, Forthcoming.

Article on "Satellites," Research and Discovery: Landmarks and Pioneers in American Science, Russell Lawson ed, M.E. Sharpe, (2008); and Postwar America: An Encyclopedia of Social, Political, Cultural, and Economic History, James Ciment ed, M.E. Sharpe, (2006).