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).