The University of Georgia

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Shane Hamilton
Assistant Professor of History
306 LeConte Hall
(706) 542-2538
shamilto@uga.edu


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Workshop in the History of Agriculture and Environment

WHEATS 2007

 

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Professor Hamilton received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005. His research and teaching focuses on the political, social, and economic history of twentieth-century America; agricultural and rural social history; the history of technology; and the history of American capitalism in the twentieth century. He is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively titled "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the American Century," which considers the political ecology of American supermarkets within a transnational context over the course of the twentieth century by examining how supermarkets transformed farmscapes and foodways to meet the demands of modern consumer capitalism. His first book, Trucking Country: Agribusiness and the Rural Assault on Economic Liberalism in Twentieth-Century America will be published by Princeton University Press. In 2006 he won the Business History Conference's Kroos Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History, as well as the Agricultural History Society's Fite Award for Best Dissertation in Agricultural History. His article, "Cold Capitalism: The Political Ecology of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice," won the Edward Everetts Award in 2003 and was published in the Fall 2003 issue of Agricultural History.

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