Food, Power and Politics Lecture: Food Politics and the Cost of Living

Photograph of Shane Hamilton

| 04:00 pm - 05:30 pm

Curious about the rising cost of groceries, supply chains, and supermarkets? Join the Russell Library for the third annual Food, Power, and Politics Lecture featuring former UGA professor of history Dr. Shane Hamilton, who will deliver a talk on "Food Politics and the Cost of Living".

About the speaker: 

Shane Hamilton is Senior Lecturer 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 and co-editor of American Business, Politics, and Society (University of Pennsylvania Press). He is currently the President of the Agricultural History Society and the Co-Director of the Management Humanities Research Theme at the University of York Management School. Shane has published articles on food and agribusiness in Technology & Culture, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, History of Retailing and Consumption, Enterprise & Society, Business History Review, Business History, and Agricultural History.

Room
2nd Floor, Auditorium (Room 271)
State
Event Contact Name
Kaylynn Stooksbury
Event Contact Phone
7065425788
Event Contact Email
washnock@uga.edu