James C. Giesen

Agricultural, Rural, Environmental History
African-American; U.S. South

276 Allen Hall
Mississippi State University
Mississippi State, MS 39762
Phone: 662-325-7079
E-mail: jgiesen@history.msstate.edu

Education
Research Interests
Publications
Other Professional Work
Courses Taught


Education:
  • Ph.D., University of Georgia, 2004
  • M.A., University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 1998
  • B.A., DePauw University, 1995
Research Interests:
    My interests are the agricultural, rural, and environmental histories of the U.S., with a particular focus on the South in the twentieth century.
Publications:
  • Book, Articles & Book Reviews

    Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South manuscript under advanced contract with University of Chicago Press

    "Creating 'Nate Shaw': The Making and Re-Making of All God's Dangers," in Richard Godden and Martin Crawford, ed., Reading Southern Poverty Between the Wars, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006)

    “Encyclopedia entries in” Encyclopedia of American Environmental History, The New Georgia Encyclopedia.

    Reviews in Agricultural History, Civil War History, American Communist History II, North Carolina Historical Review, Film & History, H-North Carolina.

    Conference Papers delivered at meetings of Southern Historical Association, Agricultural History Society, American Society of Environmental History, and others.

Other Professional Work

    Member, Program Committee, 2009 Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Little Rock, Arkansas. See the Call For Papers.

    Appeared in Game of Change (Pathway Productions, 2008), a documentary about the historic 1964 men s basketball game between Mississippi State University and Loyola University.

    Appeared in The Secret to a Happy Ending (Barr Weissman, 2008), a documentary about the legendary southern rock band The Drive-By Truckers.

Courses Taught:
    HI 8883: US Agricultural History, 1500-2000 (Seminar)
    HI 4193/6193: U.S. Environmental History, 1500-2000
    HI 4313/6313: The New South
    HI 3333: Mississippi History
    HI 1073: Modern U.S. History