{"id":2490,"date":"2011-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/03\/10\/giesen-to-present-delta-states-year-of-green-lecture\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:11","slug":"giesen-to-present-delta-states-year-of-green-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/03\/giesen-to-present-delta-states-year-of-green-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Giesen to present  Delta State\u2019s \u2018Year of Green\u2019  lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"195\" height=\"341\" align=\"left\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/jgiesen.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. James C. Giesen\" class=\"caption\" \/>Dr. James C. Giesen, assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, will present Delta State University&#8217;s &ldquo;Year of Green&rdquo; lecture entitled &quot;From Cotton Weevils to Cotton Logos:&nbsp; The Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta&rdquo; at 7 p.m., Monday, March 28, in Jobe Hall Auditorium on the campus.<\/p>\n<p>A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Giesen earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Georgia.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Giesen specializes in the agricultural, rural, and environmental histories of the U.S., with a particular focus on the South in the twentieth century.&nbsp; 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.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his duties at Mississippi State, Giesen serves as the executive secretary of the Agricultural History Society.<\/p>\n<p>He is married to Anne Marshall, who also serves on the History faculty at Mississippi State.&nbsp; The couple has two children, Walter (3) and Eleanor (1).<\/p>\n<p>The lecture is sponsored by the Year of Green Programming and the Division of Social Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, contact the Delta State History Department at (662) 846-4170.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. James C. Giesen, assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, will present Delta State University&#8217;s \u201cYear of Green\u201d lecture&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41266,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490\/revisions\/41266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}