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  • Mark Wilson

    Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte


    Defence Industries, World War II, Political Economy, Cold War Era

    I'm a historian of US military-industrial relations and the business and politics of war mobilizations. I'm a professor of history at UNC Charlotte. My books include The Business of Civil War (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); and Destructive Creation: American Business and the Winning of World War II (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). I am currently working on a book about the history of the US military-industrial complex from the 1950s to the 2020s.

    Service to the BHC
    President-Elect 2026 - 2027
    Grants and Prizes Committee 2023 - 2026 [Chair 2024 - 2025]
    Hagley Book Prize Committee 2022 - 2023
    Ralph Gomory Prize Committee 2018 - 2021 [Chair 2019 - 2020]
    Nominating Committee 2019 - 2021
    Board of Trustees 2011 - 2014
    Halloran Prize Committee 2012 - 2014
    Halloran Prize Committee 2011 - 2013
    Program Committee 2010 - 2011 [Chair 2010 - 2011]
    Krooss Dissertation Prize Committee 2006 - 2009 [Chair 2007 - 2008]

    Prizes and Grants from the BHC
    Hagley Prize in Business History, 2017
    Ralph Gomory Prize, 2017

    Recent Conference Participation
    2025 BHC meeting: Discussant, Modern Multinationals
    2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Strategy and Structure for a Neoliberal Era: The Rise of SAIC, 1969-2001"
    Chair, Business in Arms
    Discussant, Business in Arms
    2020 BHC Meeting: Chair, Labor and the Political Economy of Big Works

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