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Roger Horowitz

Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at Hagley Museum and Library, Adjunct Professor of History, University of Delaware


Consumer Culture, Food, Labor, regulation, Religion, Technology

Roger Horowitz is Director of the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library and Professor of History at the University of Delaware. His recent book Kosher USA: How Coke became kosher and other tales of modern food received the National Jewish Book Award in American Jewish Studies, the Dorothy Rosenberg award on the Jewish Diaspora from the American Historical Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice magazine. Prior to publishing Kosher USA Horowitz authored three books on the consumption and production of meat in America and edited three additional collections of essays. He regularly serves as a source for journalists writing about the American food system. He also is the treasurer of the Business History Conference,  a trustee of the Jewish Historical Society of Delaware, and a member of the executive council of the American Jewish Historical Society.

Service to the BHC
Treasurer 2023 - 2027
Executive Committee 2023 - 2027
Hagley Book Prize Committee 2018 - 2024
Treasurer 2021 - 2023
Executive Committee 2020 - 2021
Budget Committee 2020 - 2021
Secretary-Treasurer 2020 - 2021 Interim
Budget Committee 2015 - 2018
Secretary-Treasurer 1999 - 2018
Executive Committee 2015 - 2018
Executive Committee 2014 - 2015
Budget Committee 2014 - 2015
Program Committee 2001 - 2002


Recent Conference Participation
2026 BHC Meeting: Chair, Elite Transnational Jewish Business Networks before the Holocaust: Class, Market Niches, and Legacy
Discussant, Elite Transnational Jewish Business Networks before the Holocaust: Class, Market Niches, and Legacy
2025 BHC meeting: Presenter, Roundtable Presentation
Chair, Behind the Volume: A Roundtable on the Work Behind the Hagley Perspectives Series
2024 BHC Meeting: Chair, Making Global Management, In and Out of the Classroom
2023 BHC Meeting: Presenter, "Jewish Cuisine and Poultry Markets: From Eastern Europe to America, 1880-1935"
Chair, Protect America Again
2022 BHC Meeting : Presenter, "The Mob and the (Trade)mark: Schocktim, Gangsters, and Rule-Making in the Kosher Poultry Trade, 1890-1945"
2020 BHC Meeting: Chair, Business Historians Beyond the Professoriate

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