20th-century U.S. history; agriculture and rural life; history of technology; history of capitalism

Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005

Office: 306 LeConte
Office Hours: By appt.
Phone: (706) 542-2538

shamilto@uga.edu

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Shane Hamilton's 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 has published articles and reviews in Agricultural History, Business History Review, Enterprise & Society, Reviews in American History, and Technology and Culture. He is currently working on a book project entitled "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the American Century," which has been funded by a National Science Foundation Scholar's Award. The History News Network selected him in 2008 as a "Top Young Historian."

Research and Teaching Interests

Selected Publications

"Supermarket USA Confronts State Socialism: Airlifting the Technopolitics of Industrial Food Distribution into Cold-War Yugoslavia," in Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users, ed. Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann (MIT Press, 2009) [More Info]

"Analyzing Commodity Chains: Linkages or Restraints?," in Food Chains: Food Chains: From Farmyard to Shopping Cart, ed. Warren Belasco and Roger Horowitz (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) [More Info]

Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Princeton University Press, 2008) [More Info]

"The Economies and Conveniences of Modern-Day Living: Frozen Food and Mass Marketing, 1945-1965," Business History Review (Spring 2003)

"Cold Capitalism: The Political Ecology of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice," Agricultural History (Fall 2003) Awarded the MIT Siegel Prize and the 2003 Edward E. Everetts Award from the Agricultural History Society

Honors and Awards

Grant-In-Aid, Rockefeller Archive Center (2007-2008)

Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, University of Georgia Nominee (2007)

Scholar's Award, National Science Foundation, "Supermarket USA: Food, Technology, and Power in the American Century" Award No. 0646662, 2007 (2007)

Junior Faculty Research Grant in the Arts and Humanities, University of Georgia Alumni Research Foundation, (2006)

Herman E. Krooss Prize, Business History Conference, Best Dissertation in Business History (2006)

Gilbert C. Fite Award, Agricultural History Society, Best Dissertation in Agricultural History (2006)

Fellow in History, Public Policy, and American Politics, Miller Center of Public Affairs, Charlottesville, VA (2004-2005)

Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation, SES-0322268 (2003-2004)

Graduate Fellowship, Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Cambridge, MA (2003-2004)

Predoctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC (2003-2004)

Siegel Prize, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Best Essay on Science, Technology, and Society (2003)

Edward E. Everetts Award, Agricultural History Society, Best Graduate Essay (2003)

Sawyer Fellowship for "Modern Times/Rural Places", Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2001-2002)

Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation (2000)

Courses Taught

HIST2112H: U.S. History 1865 to Present, Honors [Syllabus]

HIST3073: Modern America, 1945 to Present [Syllabus]

HIST4020: Food and Power in American History [Syllabus]

HIST4067: History of American Technology [Syllabus]

HIST6020: Food and Power in American History [Syllabus]

HIST7002: Colloquium in United States History: 1865 to the present [Syllabus]