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C-SC assistant professor keynote speaker at literary and cinema celebration
Friday, February 18, 2011

CANTON, Mo. -- Culver-Stockton College Assistant Professor of History Dr. Scott Giltner will be the keynote speaker the 22nd Annual Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration held Feb. 24 through 27 in Natchez, Miss. The theme of the celebration is "Field of Dreams: Sports in the South".

Giltner’s address, “Hunting, Fishing and Race After the Civil War,” is scheduled for Thursday, February 24 at 1 p.m. The presentation was drawn from Giltner’s book “Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure After the Civil War” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

The address will examine how the Civil War changed the way hunting and fishing were perceived in the South. Giltner’s book was inspired by interviews with former slaves that he read while in grad school, in which they discussed those activities that are for some sport, and for others a means of survival.

Dr. Scott Giltner is an assistant professor of history at Culver-Stockton College. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history from Hiram College in 1996, his Master of Arts and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998 and 2005, respectively. Giltner joined the faculty of Culver-Stockton College in 2005 and currently teaches courses in American history and historical methods. His research deals with conflicts between Southern blacks and whites over competing notions of proper subsistence and land use. Giltner is the author of “Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War” (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and "Slave Hunting and Fishing in the Antebellum South," in “To Love the Wind and the Rain: African Americans and Environmental History” (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).