Henry M. J. Tonks

Postdoctoral Fellow, Kenyon College

20th c. US., Business and Economic History, Business-Government Relations, Cold War Era, Deindustrialization, Globalization, neoliberalism, Political Economy, post-1945 US, US-Japan Business History

Henry M. J. Tonks is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Study of American Democracy (CSAD) at Kenyon College. His research, which is focused on the reformation of the Democratic Party from the 1970s to the 1990s, is concerned with how modern American liberalism was shaped by global politics and conditions of industrial decline.

Recent Conference Participation

2026 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Risky Business: Industrial Policy and the Origins of the Democratic Party's Alliance with Silicon Valley, 1979-1992"