Shane Hamilton
Transportation, Agriculture, Risk, Insurance, Capitalism, Technology, Supermarkets, Labor, Agribusiness
Business Historians at Business Schools
Shane Hamilton is author of Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race, published by Yale University Press in 2018. He is Reader in Strategy, Management, and Society at the University of York School for Business and Society. His first book, Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008) won the 2009 Theodore Saloutos Award for Best Book in Agricultural History. He serves as Associate Editor for the journal Enterprise & Society, and has published articles, essays, and reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and Technology and Culture.
Service to the BHC
Program Committee 2025 - 2026 [Chair 2025 - 2026]
Associate Editor of Enterprise & Society 2015 - 2026
Web Administrator 2020 - 2024
Web Administrator 2015 - 2020
2018 - 2018
Electronic Media Oversight Committee 2013 - 2016 [Chair 2015 - 2016]
Board of Trustees 2013 - 2016
Krooss Dissertation Prize Committee 2010 - 2013 [Chair 2011 - 2012]
Program Committee 2009 - 2010
Scholarly Society Liaison Committee 2008 - 2010
Prizes and Grants from the BHC
Recent Conference Participation
| 2026 BHC Meeting:
Chair, Doing Business with Animals: Livestock, Commodities, and Capitalist Innovations |
| 2025 BHC meeting:
Presenter, "The Rise of the Global Beef Complex: Strategy, Structure, and the Global Climate Crisis"
Discussant, Bitter Harvests: Political Economy in the Interwar Agrarian Periphery |
| 2024 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
Discussant, Planes, Ships, and Parcels: The Business of Transportation |
| 2022 BHC Meeting :
Presenter, "The Historical Paradoxes of Agrifood Standards"
Chair, Agribusiness in Transition |
| 2021 BHC Virtual Meeting:
Presenter, "Technologies of Risk Management in Modern Agribusiness"
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| 2020 BHC Meeting:
Presenter, "Conceptualizing Technological Maintenance: Monsanto’s Roundup Weedkiller in Historical Perspective"
Discussant, Entangling the Firm with Nature |