Robert Wright

Professor

Oshawa Campus

M.A., Ph.D. (Queen’s)

(905) 721-3111 x 2075 

rawright@trentu.ca

Research interests: modern Canadian intellectual, cultural and diplomatic history

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Robert Wright is the author of five books, including two national bestsellers - Our Man in Tehran: Ken Taylor and the Iran Hostage Crisis (2010) and Three Nights in Havana: Pierre Trudeau, Fidel Castro and the Cold War World (2007), winner of the Lela Common Award for Canadian History.

Wright’s articles and essays have appeared in academic journals and the popular press.