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Shane Hamilton

University of York, School for Business and Society


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. 

Recent Presentations at BHC Annual Meetings
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
Board of Trustees 2013 - 2016
Electronic Media Oversight Committee 2013 - 2016 [Chair 2015 - 2016]
Krooss Dissertation Prize Committee 2010 - 2013 [Chair 2011 - 2012]
Scholarly Society Liaison Committee 2008 - 2010
Program Committee 2009 - 2010

Prizes and Grants from the BHC
Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History, 2006

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