Born and raised in Northeast Ohio, Scott Giltner received his B.A. in history from Hiram College before going on to graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh.  He received his M.A. in 1996 and was awarded the Ph.D. in 2005.  Since 2005 he has been teaching at Culver-Stockton College, where he is an Assistant Professor of history.  His research deals with conflicts, particularly between Southern blacks and whites, over competing notions of proper subsistence and land use.   His book, Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White Leisure after the Civil War, is forthcoming from Johns Hopkins University Press.  Giltner is also the author of “Slave Hunting and Fishing in the Plantation South,” in Dianne Glave and Mark Stoll, ed., “To Love the Wind and the Rain”: African Americans and Environmental History. He lives in Canton, Missouri.