Bruce Muirhead
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Dr. Bruce Muirhead BA Honors, MA, PhD is a Canadian historian and an academic known for his groundbreaking work on Canada's foreign trade policy.
Muirhead taught at Lakehead University from 1985-2006 where he was the recipient of a Distinguished Researcher Award. At the University of Waterloo, he teaches Canadian History, the American Impact on Canada, and Canada's Foreign Economic Policy in the 20th Century.
The author of several books, notably Dancing Around the Elephant: Creating a Prosperous Canada in an Era of American Dominance, 1957-1973 (University of Toronto Press, 2005), Against the Odds: the Public Life and Times of Louis Rasminsky (University of Toronto Press, 1999), and The Development of Post-War Canadian Trade Policy: the Decline of the Anglo-European Option (McGill-Queen's Press, 1992). For Against the Odds, he received the Joseph and Fay Tanenbaum Award for Canadian Jewish History. His current research interests include Canadian trade policy development, a book on the roots of globalization, and, along with co-investigator Greg Donaghy, Canada's overseas development policy from 1945 to 1991.