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.

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
Blake Allmendinger	Professor, English	UCLA	Literature of the American West
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
Randy Bertolas	Professor, Geography; Chair, History, Politics, and Geography	Wayne State	Recreation, tourism and sports, natural disasters, geography education, utilizing GIS in mapping
Mary Bordeaux (Sicangu Oglala Lakota)	Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies and co-director of Racing Magpie	Black Hills State University	Lakota Epistemology, Lakota arts, women's creativity, and community focused practices in Native arts and museums.
Richard Breaux	Associate Professor, Race/Gender/Sexuality Studies	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	African American history, education history, black education
Mark Brohman	Executive Director	Wachiska Audubon	Working with tall-grass prairies, wildlife conservation, environmental issues, and Indigenous peoples
Charles Brown	Professor, Biological Sciences	University of Tulsa	Social behavior in vertebrates, cliff swallow
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
Brett Chloupek	Associate Professor, Geography	Northwest Missouri State University	Cultural, political, and historical geography, the geography of religion
Brandon Cobb	Indigenous Conservation Specialist	The Nature Conservancy	Land stewardship, cultural fire, climate change, grazing management
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
Catherine De Almeida	Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture	University of Washington	Rural landscapes, Nebraska's brick industry, brownfield remediation
Cassandra Dean	Executive Director	Gage County Historical Society	Gage County, Neb., and its effects on the outside world including subjects such as Indigenous history, Oregon Train history, pioneer history, railroad history, and rural agricultural history
Cory DeRoin	Coordinator for the Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project	CGPS	Environmental knowledge, food sovereignty, Otoe-Missouria relations
Martha Durr	Professor, Climate	Nebraska Indian Community College	Climate variability, change and impacts
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
Margaret Emons	Library Director	College of Saint Mary	Library, Great Plains history
Eric L. Ewing	Executive Director; Adjunct Professor, Bellevue University	Great Plains Black History Museum	Regional history, education, management, leadership
Helen Fagan	Agricultural Leadership, Education & Communication	Executive Coach	Diversity and inclusion, leadership, lLeadership development and intercultural competence development
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
John Gates	Senior Vice President and Global Head of Product	CropX	Chemical/physical hydrogeology, aqueous geochemistry
Christina Goodson	Co-director of the Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project	CGPS	Cultural linguistics, language revitalization, history
Pamela Gossin	Professor, Literature and History	University of Texas-Dallas	History of science, interdisciplinary literature and science studies
Carlton Shield Chief Gover (Pawnee Nation)	Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Assistant Curator of Archaeology	University of Kansas	Indigenous archaeology, decolonial anthropology, community-based research, ethnogenesis, identity, migration, plains town formation, introduction of horses
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
Ronald Griffin	Professor, Law	Florida A&M University	International trade and sales, international law
Pekka Hämäläinen	Rhodes Professor of American History	St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford	Borderlands, Plains Indian trade, fur trade, Santa Fe Trail
Karen Hansen	Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Sociology	Brandeis University	Contemporary families, historical sociology, and the sociology of gender
Jason Heppler	Historian, Senior Developer	Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, History and Art History, George Mason University	American West and Northern Plains history, environmental & agricultural history, political history, digital history
Robert Hitchcock	Professor, Geography	University of New Mexico	Anthropology, human ecology of populations in arid and semi-arid ecosystems
Wyatt Hoback	Professor, Entomology and Plant Pathology	Oklahoma State University	Entomology, limnology, biology, plants and animals, conservation
Tarah Hogue (Métis)	Adjunct Curator (Indigenous Art)	Remai Modern, Canada	Indigenous contemporary art, curatorial methodologies, and self-determination in the context of public art museums
A. Drake Hokanson	Photography	Winona	American landscapes
Teresa Houser	Founder and CEO	Magdalene Omaha	Great Plains history, sex trafficking and recovery programs
LeAnne Howe	Eidson Distinguished Professor in American Literature, Department of English	University of Georgia	American Indian Literature, theater
Philip Hull	Director, Graduate & International Student Services	University of Central Missouri	Study abroad, exchange students, international programs
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
Christian Janousek	Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations	Creighton University	Political culture and institutions, governance, state and local government, public policy
Annika Johnson	Associate Curator of Native American Art	Joslyn Art Museum	Native American arts and culture, institutional futures
Jeffrey A. Johnson	Professor, History	Providence College	Radical labor, politics, and reform in the late 19th and early 20th century American West
Sarah Kaizar	Illustrator, designer, and author	Independent artist	Wildlife conservation
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
Kurt Kinbacher	Professor, History/Social Sciences	Chadron State College	World History, Ancient and Modern East Asia, and topics that involve the Great Plains and the people who live here
Ryan Klataske	Founder & Principal; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Applied Ethnographic Services	Independent, UNMC	Anthropology, ethnography, agriculture, work, environment, health, and rural life
Autumn Langemeier	Historical Marker Equity Program Coordinator	History Nebraska	Local and state commemorative efforts, rural women’s history, material culture, and historically underrepresented communities
John Legg	Adjunct Faculty, Department of History	Loyola University New Orleans	Indigenous history, northern Plains and midwestern history, borderlands, migration/mobility, public history, digital humanities, oral history, spatial history, Indigenous cultural preservation
Amanda Maciuba	Assistant Professor of Art Studio	Mount Holyoke College	Interdisciplinary print and book artist focusing on the tallgrass prairie, native plants and narrative histories of river watersheds.
Don Macke	Senior Vice President e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	E2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems	Economics, economic development, environmental studies
Susan Maher	Professor, English	University of Minnesota Duluth	Western American and Canadian literature, ecocriticism, nonfiction writing
Cheyenne Marco	Lecturer, English	University of South Dakota	Creative writing, Great Plains literature
Amber Mohr	Former curator, Great Plains Art Museum	Avoca, Iowa	Great Plains art
Kurt Mantonya	Research Manager	University of Nebraska Public Policy Center	Ethnographic and anthropological research
Ricardo Martinez	Assistant Professor, Education	Penn State	Critical youth mathematics studies, participatory action research
Richard Mocarski	Vice President of the Division of Research and Innovation Partnerships	Northern Illinois University	Health disparities, community-based participatory research, stigma
Amelia María de la Luz Montes	Associate Professor, Chicano & Latino Studies	The University of Minnesota	Late Nineteenth and contemporary American literature, Chicana/o literature
Wynema Morris	Professor, Native American Studies, Omaha Tribe	Nebraska Indian Community College	Omaha Peoples, traditions of song, dance, social and political structures
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
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
Gerald Oetelaar	Professor, Archaeology	University of Calgary	Archaeology of eastern woodlands, method and theory, settlement patterns, Northern Plains
Bianca Ott Andrade	Associate Professor, Biology	Karlstad University	Biodiversity, grassland ecology and management
Moises Padilla	Executive Director of the CMU Rales Fellows Program	Carnegie Mellon University	Education and college access and success for first-generation, low-income, and ethnic-minority students in the Great Plains
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	Professor, Geological Sciences	Cal State Fullerton	Biodiversity, comparative morphology, genetics, and specimen-based research
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
Kevin Pope	Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Chief	USGS	Fishery ecology
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
M-L Quinn	Research Affiliated Faculty, History & Philosophy	Montana State University	Water resources/law, climate change, environmental history
Dustin Ranglack	NWRC Research Scientist	USDA	Large mammal ecology, conservation, and management
Richard Reading	Vice President, Science and Conservation; Adjunct Professor, Biology at University of Denver	Butterfly Pavilion	Grasslands, Great Plains, Mongolia, Kalahari, Altiplano, conservation biology
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
Laura Rose	South Central Regional Park Superintendent	Nebraska Game & Parks	Heritage tourism and economic impact, interpreting Great Plains military and migration history, balancing recreation with preservation.
Steve Rossi	Assistant Professor, Sculpture Program Head	Saint Joseph's University	Interdisciplinary visual artist focusing on groundwater extraction
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
Daniel Scheller	Associate Professor of Public Administration and Director of the Master of Public Administration program, Political Science	Texas Tech University	Urban policy, neighborhood/community development, housing, civic participation
Douglas Seefeldt	Associate Professor, History	Clemson University	American West, environmental history, public history, digital, 19th and 20th Century U.S.
Robert Shepard	GIS Librarian	University of Chicago	Cartography, GIS, population geography and urban historical geography
Jacob Sherman	Reference Librarian	University of Texas at San Antonio	Oral history, people, politics
Daniel Simon	Assistant Director and Editor in Chief of World Literature Today	University of Oklahoma	World literature, translation studies, comparative literature, poetry
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
Liahnna Stanley	Assistant Professor of Indigeneity, Native Studies, and Communication	University of Utah	Rhetoric and cultural studies, literary criticism, speculative fiction, Indigenous sovereignty and critical theory
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
Jason St. Sauver	Sr. Manager, Education	Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center	Environmental education for all ages and abilities focusing on birds, habitat, and connections to communities and equity and inclusion
Kristine Sudbeck	Academic Dean	Nebraska Indian Community College	Native American history
Baligh Ben Taleb	Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies	San Francisco State University	American Indian & Indigenous history, race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, settler colonialism, decolonization, transitional justice
William Thomas III	Dean of the College of Letters and Science, and Professor of History	Montana State University	Civil War, U.S. South, slavery, digital history
Vetta Sanders Thompson	Professor, Social Work	Washington University, St. Louis	Cultural competence, racial identity, disparities in health and mental health services
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
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
Robert Watrel	Associate Professor, Department Head, Geography	South Dakota State University	Human geography, political geography, cartography
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
Kelly Yarbrough	Artist	Program Lead for the Tallgrass Artist Residency	Visual art, art and ecology, arts administration, community events and programming

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