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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: “Bricklin Dreams: The Promoter, The Premier, The Province and the Spectacular Failure of an Unlikely Car Company” (Monograph), funded by a SSHRC Standard Research Grant Canadian History Through Murder, Execution, Assassination and Suicide (textbook based on Trent University course). University of Toronto Press Higher Education Division, under contract Re-Creation and Fragmentation: Canada Since 1945 (senior undergraduate text). Oxford UniversityPress, under contract Select Publications:
Autonomous State: The Struggle for a Canadian Auto Industry from OPEC to Free Trade, University of Toronto Press, 2013
Canadian Public Policy: Special Issue on the Automobile and its Industry in Canada. 36 1 (Spring, 2010). Co-editor, with Johannes Van Biesebroeck.
Framing Canadian Federalism: Historical Essays in Honour of John T. Saywell. UTP, 2009. Co-editor, with P.E. Bryden.
“A ‘War on Pollution’? Canadian Responses to the Automotive Emissions Problem, 1970-80” Canadian Historical Review, 90.1 (March, 2009), 99-136.
Car Nation: An Illustrated History of Canada's Transformation Behind the Wheel, (Lorimer, 2008).
The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008 (Editor).
“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., UBC Press, 2008, pp. 137-61.
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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