Dr. James C. Giesen, assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, will present Delta State University’s “Year of Green” lecture entitled "From Cotton Weevils to Cotton Logos: The Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta” at 7 p.m., Monday, March 28, in Jobe Hall Auditorium on the campus.
A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Giesen earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Georgia.
Giesen specializes in the agricultural, rural, and environmental histories of the U.S., with a particular focus on the South in the twentieth century. In May 2011, the University of Chicago Press will be publishing his first book, Boll Weevil Blues: Cotton, Myth, and Power in the American South.
In addition to his duties at Mississippi State, Giesen serves as the executive secretary of the Agricultural History Society.
He is married to Anne Marshall, who also serves on the History faculty at Mississippi State. The couple has two children, Walter (3) and Eleanor (1).
The lecture is sponsored by the Year of Green Programming and the Division of Social Sciences.
For further information, contact the Delta State History Department at (662) 846-4170.
