Great Plains Affiliate Fellows: Full list | Center for Great Plains Studies

Affiliate Fellows of the Center include those who have a professional interest in the Great Plains and the purposes and program of the Center and are not presently holding regular appointments at the University of Nebraska.

They include more than 200 professionals from 122 institutions in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia.

Map of Affiliate Fellow home institutions

Map of home institutions of Affiliate Fellows

Name	Title	Institution	Specialty
Kevin Abourezk	Journalist, Managing Editor, Rosebud Sioux	Indianz.com	Native American issues, higher education, leadership
Adam Ahlers	Associate Professor	Kansas State University	Landscape ecologist interested in how landscape change affects wildlife populations
Donna Akers	Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies	University of Texas Arlington	Native American history, race, gender, ethnicity, comparative colonialism
Sam Albrecht	Executive Director	Center for Association Leadership	Management
Blake Allmendinger	Professor, English	UCLA	Literature of the American West
Armando Alonzo	Associate Professor, History	Texas A&M	Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish Borderlands history
Eric Anderson	Associate Professor, English	George Mason University	Native American Literature, Indigenous studies
Nico Arcilla	President & Research Director	International Bird Conservation Partnership	Avian ecology, migration, and conservation
Douglas Bamforth	Professor, Anthropology	University of Colorado-Boulder	Human use of the Plains, long-term environmental change
Blake Bell	Historian	Homestead National Monument	Great Plains women, African Americans, immigrants, Civil War
Randy Bertolas	Professor, Geography; Chair, History, Politics, and Geography	Wayne State	Recreation, tourism and sports, natural disasters, geography education, utilizing GIS in mapping
Matthew Bice	Dean, School of Professional & Graduate Studies	Baker University	Higher education management, public health education, health interventionist
Kent Blansett	Langston Hughes Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History	University of Kansas	Native American, modern U.S., Global Indigenous history
Brian Blouet	Huby Professor, Geography & International Education	William & Mary	Political geography, U.S. settlement
Richard Breaux	Associate Professor, Race/Gender/Sexuality Studies	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	African American history, education history, black education
Pamela Brink	President	Associated Authors & Editors, Inc.	English, Women's Studies, Shakespeare
Charles Brown	Professor, Biological Sciences	University of Tulsa	Social behavior in vertebrates, cliff swallow
Shane Brown	Photographer	Oklahoma	Cinematography, cultural landscapes, rural Oklahoma
Amy Burgin	Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	University of Kansas	Microbial ecology, aquatic ecosystems
Brian Cannon	Professor & Department Chair, History	Brigham Young University	Agricultural settlement, rural community development, and federal rural policy in the 20th Century
Laura Cannon	Assistant Professor, History	University of the Incarnate Word	U.S.-Mexico borderlands, labor history, and citizenship and civil rights
Gustavo Carlo	Millsap Professor of Diversity, Multicultural Studies	University of Missouri	Prosocial and moral development among children and adolescents, Latino families and youth
James Carroll	Professor, History	Iona College	Native American history, education and pedagogy, transnational studies
David Carter	Director and Professor, Forensic Sciences	Chaminade University	Forensic taphonomy, postmortem microbiology, estimating postmortem interval
Elizabeth Chase	Executive Director	Nebraska Main Street Network	Community and regional planning, historic main streets
Brett Chloupek	Associate Professor, Geography	Northwest Missouri State University	Cultural, political, and historical geography, the geography of religion
Paul Christensen	Professor, English	Texas A&M	20th Century American poetry, Southwestern life and literature, creative writing
Valerie Cisler	Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication; Professor, Music	University of Wisconsin Stevens Point	Great Plains music, piano
Thomas Clark	Lecturer, History	Sacramento State University	Urban history, history of crime and poverty
Richmond Clow	Professor, Native American Studies	University of Montana	Tribal resource management, politics on Montana's Reservations
Margaret Coel	Writer, Guest Lecturer	Boulder, Colo.	The West: the mountains, plains, and vast spaces
Allison Hedge Coke	Distinguished Professor, Creative Writing	University of California, Riverside	Native Americans, poetry, nonfiction, landscape
Kyle Conway	Associate Professor	University of Ottawa	Communication, border studies, Social effects of oil exploration
Sara Crook	Professor, History and Political Science	Peru State College	United States Congress and Nebraska Politics
Greg Davis	Associate Professor, Landscape Design	Kansas State University	Horticulture design applications, landscape plant establishment
Catherine De Almeida	Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture	University of Washington	Rural landscapes, Nebraska's brick industry, brownfield remediation
Karie Decker	Acting Wildlife Division Administrator	Nebraska Game & Parks Commission	Research, analysis and inventory for parks, avian research projects
Paul Demers	Project Manager	R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates	Historical archaeology, archaeology of borderlands, frontiers, military sites, emigrant trails
Anne Diffendal	Consulting Archivist/Historian	Independent historian	Managment of cultural institutions, management for archivists, political sciences, American history
Joshua Doležal	Professor, English	Central College	American literature, Willa Cather, sustainability
Joseph Dupris	Attorney	Oregon	Environment, Native Americans
William E. Easterling	Assistant Director for the Directorate for Geosciences	National Science Foundation	Climate change and agriculture, food supply
Kalenda Eaton	Associate Professor, The Clara Luper Department of African & African American Studies	University of Oklahoma	Black American West, African American literature, Women’s Studies, Africana Studies
Walter Echo-Hawk	Attorney and Historian, Pawnee	Oklahoma	Native American history and law, indigenous art and culture, environment
Aris Efting	Lecturer, Biology	College of Staten Island	Aquatic ecology, climate change and water quality, freshwater quality
Mark Eifler	Associate Professor, History	University of Portland	History, North American frontiers, American history, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Margaret Emons	University Librarian	Nebraska Wesleyan	Library, Great Plains history
Eric L. Ewing	Executive Director; Adjunct Professor, Bellevue University	Great Plains Black History Museum	Regional history, education, management, leadership
Sue Fairbanks	Associate Professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management	Oklahoma State University	Wildlife Biology, wildlife and grassland interactions, behavioral ecology
Elizabeth Fenn	Professor, History	University of Colorado Boulder	Early American West, Native American history, epidemic disease
Bernard Flaman	Conservation Architect	Public Works and Government Services Canada	Architecture of Canada and Saskatchewan
Kent Fricke	Small Game Coordinator	Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism	Wildlife ecology
Jacob Friefeld	Illinois and Midwest Studies Research Historian	Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum	Public history, nineteenth-century studies, homesteading
Kirsten Furlong	Lecturer and Director of the Blue Galleries, Department of Art, Design, and Visual Studies	Boise State University	Visual art, intersections of art and ecology
John Gaber	Department Chair, City Planning and Real Estate Development	Clemson University	Urban planning, community economic development, social planning
Sharon Gaber	Chancellor	University of North Carolina-Charlotte	Philosophy, city, community and regional planning, housing
Judi gaiashkibos	Executive Director	Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs	Nebraska, Native Americans
John Gates	Senior Vice President and Global Head of Product	CropX	Chemical/physical hydrogeology, aqueous geochemistry
Pamela Gossin	Professor, Literature and History	University of Texas-Dallas	History of science, interdisciplinary literature and science studies
H. Roger Grant	Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor, History	Clemson University	American railroad, transportation history
Andrew Graybill	Professor, History; Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies	Southern Methodist University	North American West history of expansion, borders, race, violence
Sara Gregg	Associate Professor, History	Indiana University-Bloomington	Agricultural production and environmental change
Brian Gribben	Coordinator, Government Documents and Special Collections – Forsyth Library	Fort Hays State University	German immigration, Populism, freethought
Ronald Griffin	Professor, Law	Florida A&M University	International trade and sales, international law
Evelyn Harris Haller	Professor, English; Chair, Fine Arts/Humanities	Doane College	Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound
Pekka Hämäläinen	Rhodes Professor of American History	St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford	Borderlands, Plains Indian trade, fur trade, Santa Fe Trail
John P. Hankey	Historian and Cultural Resource Consultant	Omaha, Neb.	History of technology, American railroading
Karen Hansen	Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Sociology	Brandeis University	Contemporary families, historical sociology, and the sociology of gender
Twyla Hansen	Poet	Lincoln, Neb.	Poetry, sustainable agriculture, rural land use
James Hanson	Historian, Editor	Museum of the Fur Trade	American history, trans-Mississippi west, western expansion, plains Indian anthropology
Ed Harvey	Supervisory Hydrologist and Chief, NPS Water Resources Division	National Park Service	Hydrogeology, hydrology, water resource management and planning, national water policy
Dennis Hastings	Founder, Director	Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, Inc.	Genealogical research, Omaha language, religion, music
Cody Havard	Professor, Sports and Leisure Commerce	University of Memphis	Rivalry, in-group bias, fan and consumer behavior
John Heaston	Consultant	Heaston Consulting	Water management, Platte River, anthropology, conservation planning
Robert Hitchcock	Professor, Geography	Michigan State Unviersity	Anthropology, human ecology of populations in arid and semi-arid ecosystems
Johnathan Hladik	Policy Director	Center for Rural Affairs	Farm landscape, environmental policy, clean energy
Wyatt Hoback	Professor, Entomology and Plant Pathology	Oklahoma State University	Entomology, limnology, biology, plants and animals, conservation
Michel Hogue	Associate Professor, History	University of Carleton	Metis, the fur trade, and first peoples of the Great Plains
Teresa Houser	Founder and CEO	Magdalene Omaha	Great Plains history, sex trafficking and recovery programs
Craig Howe	Director	Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies	Tribal history, museum exhibits
LeAnne Howe	Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature, Department of English	University of Georgia	American Indian Literature, theater
Margaret Heuttl	Program Director, Indigenous Studies	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	Native American history, history of the American West
Philip Hull	Director, Graduate & International Student Services	University of Central Missouri	Study abroad, exchange students, international programs
Douglas A. Hurt	Assistant Teaching Professor, Geography; Director of Undergraduate Studies	University of Missouri	Cultural and historical geography, geography education, North America
R. Douglas Hurt	Professor & Department Head, History	Purdue University	American agriculture, American West, Midwest history
Andrew Isenberg	Hall Distinguished Professor of American History	University of Kansas	American West, environmental history, bison, Native/settler encounters
Thomas Isern	Professor, History; University Distinguished Professor	North Dakota State University	North American plains history, history of agriculture
David Jachowski	Associate Professor, Wildlife Ecology	Clemson University	Black-footed ferret, Great Plains animals
Mary Liz Jameson	Associate Professor, Biology	Wichita State University	Entomology, biodiversity, conservation, zoology
Matthew Jockers	Senior Research Science Manager	Apple	Irish immigrants, place-based literature, digital humanities
Annika Johnson	Associate Curator of Native American Art	Joslyn Art Museum	Native American arts and culture, institutional futures
David Johnson	Professor, Sociology	Penn State University	Measurement techniques, structural equation models
Jeffrey A. Johnson	Professor, History	Providence College	Radical labor, politics, and reform in the late 19th and early 20th century American West
Matthew Jones	Native historian	Lincoln, Neb.	Native American studies, tales, beast fables, creation stories
Brennan Jordan	Professor, Sustainability and Environment	University of South Dakota	Volcanology, geodiversity, tourism
Toby Jurovics	Director	Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment	19th, 20th Century photography and art of the American West
Yasuhide Kawashima	Professor, History	University of Texas at El Paso	American history, colonial history, history of the Far East
Martha Kennedy	Independent historian	Fairfax, Va.	American cartooning history, caricature, illustration
Todd Kerstetter	Professor, History & Geography	Texas Christian University	19th- and 20th-Century Trans-Mississippi West, environmental history, Gilded Age/Progressive Era
Leo Killsback	Associate Professor, Native American Studies, Northern Cheyenne Nation	Montana State University	Indigenous governance, traditional law, sovereignty, treaty rights
Jon Kilpinen	Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor, Geography	Valparaiso University	American historical geography, Europe, political geography, GIS
Joni Kinsey	Professor, Art & Art History	University of Iowa	Plains art, surveying of the American West, 18th through 20th Century American art
Amy Koch	Highway Archeologist	Nebraska State Historical Society	Archaeology, Sandhills, paleoecology
Alan Kolok	Professor and Director	Idaho Water Resources Research Institute	Water resources, citizen science, water, public health, environmental epidemiology
Nancy Tystad Koupal	Director; Editor-in-Chief, Pioneer Girl Project	South Dakota Historical Society Press	American literature, South Dakota, Dakota women, children's literature
Lisi Krall	Professor, Economics	SUNY-Cortland	Ecology, environmental policy, history
Dennis Kuhnel	Director	Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center	Archaeology, Native American literature, environmental law
Gina Kunz	Project Co-Director, Carolina Family Engagement Center	University of South Carolina	Licensed psychologist, children, youth, family, and school studies
Rebecca Lacome	Steven Mather Training Department	Harper Ferrys Center	Biological diversity, natural history of the prairies, Mammoth Cave National Park, folklore
Renee Laegreid	Professor, History	University of Wyoming	Western women's history, American West
Lori Ann Lahlum	Professor and Graduate Coordinator, History	Minnesota State University-Mankato	American West, women's and gender history, and Norwegian America
Susan Lawrence	Professor and Department Head, History	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	History of medicine
Jon Lauck	Editor-in-Chief, Middle West Review; Adjunct Professor, History & Political Science	University of South Dakota	Farming, settlement, regional studies
Kenneth Leyton-Brown	Associate Professor, History	University of Regina	Canadian legal history, Saskatchewan legal history
Brad Lookingbill	Distinguished Professor, History	Columbia College Missouri	American military history, American Indian history
John Ludwickson	Highway Archeologist	Nebraska State Historical Society	Prehistory and history of Plains and Midwestern Native Americans, archaeology, 19th Century military
Vicki Braglio Luther	Founding Co-Director	Heartland Center for Leadership Development	Educational leadership, community development
Don Macke	Senior Vice President e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	E2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	Economics, economic development, environmental studies
Cheyenne Marco	Lecturer, English	University of South Dakota	Creative writing, Great Plains literature
Jerome Martin	Publisher	Spotted Cow Press	Visual arts, music, communications, western Canadian history
Leanne Martin	Financial Professional	Financial Architects Inc.	Prairie restoration, plant species diversity, seed, ecology
Joseph Mason	Professor & Department Chair, Geography	University of Wisconsin-Madison	Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, hillslope geomorphology
Doris Meredith	Writer, Public Lecturer	Amarillo, Texas	Mystery literature, historical fiction, American West
Amber Mohr	Former curator, Great Plains Art Museum	Avoca, Iowa	Great Plains art
Christie Maloyed	Associate Professor, Political Science	University of Louisiana at Lafayette	Political theory
Kurt Mantonya	Consulting Associate	Heartland Center for Leadership Development	Ethnographic and anthropological research
Ricardo Martinez	Assistant Professor, Education	Penn State	Critical youth mathematics studies, participatory action research
Richard Mocarski	Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Research	San José State University	Health disparities, community-based participatory research, stigma
Wynema Morris	Adjunct Professor, Native American Studies, Omaha Tribe	Nebraska Indian Community College	Omaha Peoples, traditions of song, dance, social and political structures
Francis (and Maxine) Moul	Reviewer, Author, Publisher	Lincoln, Neb.	International relations, Nebraska History, U.S. Indian Claims Commission
Keith Mueller	Gerhard Hartman Professor & Department Head, Health Management and Policy; Director, RUPRI	University of Iowa	Rural healthcare policy, Affordable Care Act, American health policy
Alicia Mullarkey	Director and Education Coordinator	Driftless Area Wetlands Centre	Nature preserves
David Murphy	Senior Research Architect	Nebraska State Historical Society	History and theory of architecture and place
Robert Murphy	Wildlife Biologist	Eagle Environmental, Inc.	Ecology, ornithology, prairie restoration, grassland bird habitat
Elaine Marie Nelson	Assistant Professor, History; Executive Director, Western History Association	University of Kansas	North American West, Native American, gender history
David Nesheim	Independent Scholar	Chadron State College	Great Plains, bison research
George Neubert	Director	Flatwater Folk Art Museum	Modern art history, 20th Century sculpture, museum management, 19th/20th Century American art
Gerald Oetelaar	Professor, Archaeology	University of Calgary	Archaeology of eastern woodlands, method and theory, settlement patterns, Northern Plains
Tyra Olstad	Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Sustainability	SUNY - Oneonta	Environmental science, monitoring, and history
Suzanne Ortega	President	Council of Graduate Schools	Social gerontology, social psychology, adult socialization, reference group therapy
Bianca Ott Andrade	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Botany	Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul	Grassland ecology and management
Paula Palmer	Co-Director	Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, Friends Peace Teams	Education and advocacy for Indigenous peoples' rights, racial and environmental justice
Tapan Pathak	Specialist in Climate Adaptation in Agriculture	University of California, Merced	Climate variability, climate change science
James Parham	Aquatic Biologist & Hydrologist; Director of Research & Development	Trutta Environmental Solutions	Hawaiian streams and habitats, habitat use, streamfishes, fisheries, Platte River
Keith Parker	Professor, Sociology	University of Georgia	Educational aspirations, social and applied demography, social movements, social stratification
Don Perkins	Lecturer, English	University of Alberta	Canadian drama, Native literatures, and popular culture, Canadian theatre history, trickster stories and literature
Daniel Piatkowski	Associate Professor, Integrated Land Use & Transportation Planning	Oslo Metropolitan University	Transportation and health in rural and urban areas, sustainability, bicycling, walking, travel behavior
Alisa Plant	Director	Louisiana State University Press	History scholarship and literature
Debra Ponec	Professor, Education	Creighton University	Guidance & counseling curriculum, relationships within school communities, immigrant students
Charlene Porsild	President/CEO	The Montana History Foundation	North American West, Canadian Studies, Klondike Gold Rush, gender history
Joseph Porter	Curator section chief	North Carolina Museum of History	American history, Western U.S. history and art, Native American history, Plains Indian art
Steve Potts	Instructor, History and Political Science	Minnesota North College-Hibbing	Humanities, 20th Century U.S., Native America, American frontier, East Asia, anthropology
Cynthia Prescott	Professor and Department Chair, History and American Indian Studies	University of North Dakota	Gender in the American West, material culture, historical memory
Byron Price	Director, University of Oklahoma Press; Director, Charles M. Russell Center; Charles Marion Russell Chair, Art History	University of Oklahoma	Art of the American West
M-L Quinn	Research Affiliated Faculty, History & Philosophy	Montana State University	Water resources/law, climate change, environmental history
Ronald Ramsay	Associate Professor, Architecture	North Dakota State University	Landscape architecture, architectural history and design, historic preservation
Richard Reading	Vice President, Science and Conservation; Adjunct Professor, Biology at University of Denver	Butterfly Pavilion	Grasslands, Great Plains, Mongolia, Kalahari, Altiplano, conservation biology
Lavona Reeves	Professor, English	Eastern Washington University	Linguistics, composition, rhetoric, English as a second language
Akim Reinhardt	Professor, History	Towson University	Native American history, Plains history, and regional political developments
Brenden Rensink	Associate Professor, History; Associate Director, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies	Brigham Young University	North American West, Indigenous peoples, transnational borderlands
Sarah Rowe	Visual and performance artist	Enrolled member of Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Lakota Nation	Mixed media visual arts, community programming, and healing arts collaboration
Bradley Rundquist	Dean, Dean's Office A&S; Professor, Geography	University of North Dakota	Remote sensing, GIS, prairie ecosystems
Leland Russell	Associate Professor, Biological Sciences	Wichita State University	Plant population ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, savanna dynamics and restoration
Julie Savidge	Professor, Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology	Colorado State University	Forestry, fisheries, wildlife zoology and ecology, wildland resources
Kate Schneider	Artist	Canada	Photographed the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline for the exhibition "We, the Heartland"
Connie Schomburg	Independent scholar	Fremont, Neb.	English, ethnic literature, journalism, African-American literature
James Scott	Herman Brown Chair & Professor, political science	Texas Christian University	International relations, foreign-policy analysis, U.S. foreign policy making, Great Plains interaction with a global world
Melynda Seaton	Curator of Photography	History Colorado	Art of the American West, photography
Douglas Seefeldt	Associate Professor, History	Clemson University	American West, environmental history, public history, digital, 19th and 20th Century U.S.
Jacob Sherman	Reference Librarian	University of Texas at San Antonio	Oral history, people, politics
James Sherow	Professor, History	Kansas State University	Environmental history, Konza Prairie, American history
Janet Smith	Art Consultant	Omaha, Neb.	Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists
Shirley Sneve	Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications	Americans for the Arts	Native American film
Lawrence J and Barbara Sommer	Historian	Duluth Archaeology Center	Historic preservation, architecture, mining, museum administration
Allen Steuter	Owner	Sandhill and Sun Ranch	Fire ecology, grazing and range science, wildlife, ecosystem structure
Allyson Stevenson	Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies and Gabriel Dumont Chair in Métis Studies	University of Saskatchewan	Métis history, indigenous child welfare history, gender and indigenous women’s political organizing
Kristine Sudbeck	Academic Dean	Nebraska Indian Community College	Native American history
Wynne Summers	Associate Professor, English	Southern Utah University	Native American literature and Studies, Ethnic literature, Western American literature
Orlan Svingen	Professor, History	Washington State University	American West, Indian-white relations, modern East Asia, North Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Amy Swoboda	Lawyer	Nebraska	Ecology, water resources law
Baligh Ben Taleb	ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity, Institute for Research in the Humanities	University of Wisconsin-Madison	American Indian & Indigenous history, race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, settler colonialism, decolonization, transitional justice
Robert Thacker	Dana Professor of English and Chair of Canadian Studies	St. Lawrence University	English, Canadian and Western literature, landscape in literature
Harry Thompson	Executive Director, Center for Western Studies	Augustana University	New West, poststructuralism/theory, South Dakota, Great Plains authors
Vetta Sanders Thompson	Professor, Social Work	Washington University, St. Louis	Cultural competence, racial identity, disparities in health and mental health services
Stephen Torbit	Assistant Regional Director, Science	Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife	Wildlife ecology, ruminant nutritional physiology
Steven Trout	Professor, English	University of Alabama	Literary modernism, war literature, and American cultural studies
Tracy Sanford Tucker	Director of Collections & Curation	The Willa Cather Foundation	Native Americans in Cather novels, Plains literature, prairie programming
Jinny Turman	Associate Professor, History	University of Virginia's College at Wise	Public history, Buffalo County, Kearney history, historic preservation
Simon Tye	Biology	University of Arkansas	Natural history of Great Plains organisms, ecological catastrophes
Edward Valandra	Founder	Community for the Advancement of Native Studies	Native and cultural studies, Lakota-Euroamerican relations
Carroll Van West	Director, Center for Historic Preservation	Middle Tennessee State University	19th/20th Century Southern and Western culture, architecture
Mary Ann Vinton	Associate Professor, Biology	Creighton University	Plant, ecosystem and grassland ecology, invasive plants
Matthew Wagner	Director, Freedom to Roam project, Northern Great Plains	World Wildlife Fund	Environmental law, sustainable development law
Ernie Walker	Professor, Archaeology & Anthropology	University of Saskatchewan	Paleopathology; forensic anthropology, human evolutionary studies
Milan Wall	Co-Director	Heartland Center for Leadership Development	Community development
Randi Warne	Professor, Religious Studies	Mount Saint Vincent University	Religion, culture, 19th/20th Century North American culture
Robert Watrel	Associate Professor, Department Head, Geography	South Dakota State University	Human geography, political geography, cartography
Jeff Wells	Associate Professor, History	Dickinson State University	Gilded Age, Progressive Era, digital history, populism
Gwen Westerman	Artist and Professor, English	Minnesota State University in Mankato	Native American literature and art
Andy Wilkinson	Folksinger, writer	Lubbock, Texas	Great Plains people and history, folklore
Cory Willard	Writing and Learning Strategist, Student Learning Services	Mount Royal University	Ecocriticism, Place Studies, Literature of the West
Richard Williams	Oglala Lakota/Cheyenne	Leader People of the Sacred Land	Federal Indian Policies, Treaties, American Indian History (Plains specific)
Rebecca Wingo	Director of Public History, Assistant Professor	University of Cincinnati	Indigenous history, homesteading, housing, digital history
Stephen Witte	Associate Editor	South Dakota State Historical Society Press	Buffalo Bill, Prince Maximilian
Carly Woods	Associate Professor, Communication Studies	University of Maryland	Gender and communications, social change, diverse voices