{"id":15,"date":"2016-05-09T14:35:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T14:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2016-05-13T18:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T18:05:25","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">I am currently Professor and Director of the Geography Program in the Department of Political Science &amp; Geography.\u00a0 I came to Old Dominion in 2008, after teaching for thirteen years at Florida State University.\u00a0 I received my Ph.D. in 1992 from Syracuse University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;line-height: 107%;font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;line-height: 115%;font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;color: black\">My research and publications have focused in the areas of political geography, cultural geography, \u2018race\u2019 and ethnicity, and identity and public memory, with a regional focus on the American South.\u00a0 Overall, much of my academic research has focused on political and cultural change in the American South, with an emphasis on the areas of: 1) the politics of memory and representation on the Southern landscape involving Confederate and Civil Rights iconography, and 2) \u2018race\u2019, elections and voting rights in the American South.\u00a0 In addition, I also conduct research in the areas of sports and geography, and geography education.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently Professor and Director of the Geography Program in the Department of Political Science &amp; Geography.\u00a0 I came to Old Dominion in 2008, after teaching for thirteen years at Florida State University.\u00a0 I received my Ph.D. in 1992&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2956,"featured_media":31,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fs.wp.odu.edu\/jleib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}