Shane Hamilton
Reader in Strategy, Management and Society.

Profile

Biography

Shane Hamilton is Reader in Strategy, Management and Society at the University of York. He is the author of Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race (Yale, 2018) and award-winning Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton, 2008). He is associate editor of Enterprise & Society, co-editor of American Business, Politics, and Society (University of Pennsylvania Press), and has served as a Trustee and Web Administrator for the Business History Conference. He was the 2022-2023 President of the Agricultural History Society, and currently serves as Deputy Associate Dean of School for Research and Impact at the University of York School for Business and Society. Shane has published articles on food and agribusiness in Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, Business History, and Agricultural History. He has experience consulting for charities and public sector agencies on issues related to agriculture and sustainable business strategies.

Departmental roles

Deputy Associate Dean of School for Research and Impact

Transformative food systems Interdisciplinary Cluster Lead