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 Dimitry AnastakisAssociate Professor
Research Interests: 20th Century Canadian economic and political history, particularly post- World War II trade, economic and business history; US political and economic history; government and politics. Current Research Projects: “Auto Continent: Consolidating the Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1971-1993”: An examination of the state and enterprise in the political economy of the continental auto industry from a Canadian perspective, including the 1978-80 Chrysler bailout, the break-up of the United Auto Workers union, and the role of the 1965 Canada-US auto pact in the 1988 free trade debate. Select Publications: “Industrial Sunrise? The Chrysler Bailout, the State and the Reindustrialization of the Canadian Automotive Sector, 1975-1986” Urban History Review, 35 (Spring 2007) 37-50. “Multilateralism, Nationalism, and Bilateral Free Trade: Competing Visions of Canadian Economic and Trade Policy, 1945-1970” in Creating Postwar Canada: Community, Diversity, and Dissent, 1945-1975, Magda Fahrni and Robert Rutherdale eds., in press, UBC Press. The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style, McGill-Queen's University Press, (Editor). Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971, (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Auto-Sector ExpertDr. Dimitry Anastakis Awarded$71,000 from AUTO21Study to Investigate the Role of Public Policy in the Auto Sector and the Canadian Fuel Cell Industry
J.J. Talman Award Trent University history professor Dr. DimitryAnastakis was recently awarded the prestigious J.J. Talman Award from the Ontario Historical Society (OHS) for his 2005 book entitled Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
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