Since August 2021, he has served as the director of the Southern Rural Development Center, housed at Mississippi State University.
His thesis was on the conflict surrounding the siting of a hazardous waste facility in a rural Mississippi community.
[4] His dissertation was on evaluating the social movement for grassroots economic development led by community-based cooperative organizations.
They own a farm together and have two adult children: a son who teaches high school physics, and a daughter who is a PhD student studying population health.
[6] Green joined the Division of Social Sciences at Delta State University in 2002 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Community Development.
[18] Additionally, he was the program scholar with the Mississippi Humanities Council and the Museum on Main Street Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibit, Crossroads: Change in Rural America.
[19] In spring 2021, he was named as the new head of the Southern Rural Development Center, located at Mississippi State University.
[24] In August 2019 he wrote an article for The Conversation entitled "Why the 2020 census matters for rural Americans.