Dimitry Anastakis
Associate Professor
B.A. (Western), M.A., Ph.D. (York)
Lady Eaton College N112
705-748-1011 x 7839
danastakis@trentu.ca
Auto-Sector Expert Dr. Dimitry Anastakis Awarded $71,000 from AUTO21
Study to Investigate the Role of Public Policy in the Auto Sector and the Canadian Fuel Cell Industry
History Professor Dimitry Anastakis Wins Prestigious Book Award: Volume on Auto Industry Honoured As Best Ontario History Book in Past Three Years
Trent University history professor Dr. Dimitry
Anastakis 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.
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.
Recent 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).
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