| Name | Title | Institution | Specialty |
| J. David Aiken | Professor, Agricultural Economics | UNL | Water and agricultural law |
| Heather Akin | Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Communication | UNL | Science communication, public engagement, agricultural and environmental engagement |
| Amber Alexander | Assistant Professor of History | UNK | WWII home front in Nebraska, history of education in the Great Plains, community and civic engagement in rural America, Great Plains women's history, history and social studies pedagogy, online education |
| Chris Allen | Professor, Communication Studies | UNO | Broadcast, journalism history |
| Melissa Amateis | Journals Assistant, Center for Great Plains Studies | UNL | World War II history on the Great Plains |
| Samantha Ammons | Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology | UNO | Work-family-leisure boundaries and well-being; occupations; community and "little free libraries"; mixed methodology |
| Donna Anderson | Mellon Research Assistant Professor in U.S. Law and Race, History | UNL | Asian American History, Midwestern history, race and law, immigration |
| Will Avilés | Professor, Political Science | UNK | Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics |
| Tala Awada | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Physiological plant ecologist |
| Bridget Barry | Editor in Chief, University Press | UNL | Cultural, military, health and environmental history |
| Timi Barone | Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology | UNO | Medical anthropology, ethnomedicine, human adaptation |
| Andrea Basche | Assistant Professor, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Soil and water sciences, resource efficiency, soil health |
| Monique Bassey | Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture Program | UNL | Environmental and social justice, collaborative design process, community-centered design, cultural knowledge building education, and community engagement |
| Deborah Bathke | Climatologist, National Drought Mitigation Center | UNL | Climate, drought, atmospheric sciences, geoscience |
| John T. Bauer | Professor, Geography | UNK | Human, historical geography, GIS |
| Stephen Behrendt | George Holmes Distinguished Professor, English | UNL | British Romanticism |
| William Belcher | Associate Professor, Anthropology | UNL | Forensic anthropology and archaeology, forensic taphonomy related to post-mortem interval of forensic case work within the Great Plains |
| Jesse Bell | Director, Claire M. Hubbard Professor of Water, Climate, and Health Program | UNMC | Relationships of extreme weather, climate variability, and climate change on natural and human processes and health outcomes |
| John Benson | Associate Professor, Vertebrate Ecology | UNL | Wildlife population, molecular, landscape, and behavioral ecology, conservation ecology, mule deer populations |
| Mike Boehm | Vice Chancellor for the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at UNL and NU vice president for Agriculture and Natural Resources | UNL | Plant pathology, integrated disease management, biological control, microbial ecology, biodefense |
| Patti Boehner | Lecturer, Women & Gender Studies | UNL | Women & Gender Studies |
| Vijendra Boken | Professor, Geography | UNK | Water resources, agriculture, remote sensing |
| Matt Bokovoy | Senior Acquisitions Editor, University Press | UNL | Indigenous studies, borderlands history |
| Thomas Bragg | Professor, Biology & Preserves Director | UNO | Grasslands, plant and fire ecology |
| Catelyn Bridges | Assistant Professor, Biological Systems Engineering | UNL | Postharvest engineering, renewable drying systems, emerging crops, community-engaged teaching and scholarly activity |
| Liliana Bronner | Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine | UNMC | Health science education, health disparities, and women's health |
| Gabriel Bruguier | Yankton Sioux Tribe, Assistant Professor and Research Specialist Librarian, University Libraries | UNL | Philosophy, Native American philosophy, Native American student success |
| Rebecca Buller | Assistant Professor of Practice, Geography | UNL | Cultural & historical geography in the Great Plains, Women's history, geographic education |
| Mark Burbach | Geoscientist, Natural Resources | UNL | Human behavior and the environment |
| Paul Burger | Professor, Geography | UNK | GIS, economic, population, and political geography |
| Cheryl Burkhart-Kriesel | Extension Professor, Panhandle Research and Extension Center | UNL | Sustainable rural communities, community leadership |
| Julie Campbell | Professor, Criminal Justice | UNK | Criminal justice, women and crime |
| John Carroll | Director and Professor, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Wildlife ecology and management, sustainability |
| Joy Castro | Willa Cather Professor of English and Ethnic Studies, Director of Institute for Ethnic Studies | UNL | Memoir, fiction, film, U.S. ethnic literatures, women's literatures, modernism |
| Theresa Catalano | Professor, Teaching Learning, and Teacher Education | UNL | Language teacher education, migration |
| Alison Cloet | Instructional Designer, Innovative and Learning-Centric Initiatives | UNO | Art and environmental education, afterschool programming, design research |
| S. Carolina Córdova | Assistant Professor, Statewide Soil Health Specialist Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Soil health, sustainable intensification of agriculture, soil carbon sequestration, carbon farming and market, resilient agroecosystems, rural and urban farming |
| Jessica Corman | Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Biogeochemistry, ecosystem ecology, phosphorus cycling, lake, stream, and river ecosystems |
| Christina Dando | Peter Kiewit Professor of Geography | UNO | Gender and landscape, Great Plains cultural history |
| Jenny Dauer | Assistant Professor of Practice, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Science literacy, environmental literacy, disciplinary-based science education research |
| Roger P. Davis | Professor, History | UNK | Latin America, U.S.-Latin America relations |
| John DeLong | Associate Professor, Biological Sciences, Director of the Cedar Point Biological Station | UNL | Predator-prey ecology, climate adaptation, and eco-evolutionary dynamics |
| Ashlee Dere | Associate Professor, Department of Geology | UNO | Soil geochemistry, soil morphology and genesis |
| Brady DeSanti | Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Director of Native American Studies | UNO | Native American religious traditions, religion and popular culture, Native American history |
| Timothy Dickson | Associate Professor, Biology, Turkey Creek Preserve Director | UNO | Prairie restoration, grasslands, diversity biology, ecology |
| Cristián Doña-Reveco | Associate Prof., Sociology & Anthropology, Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies | UNO | Latin American migrations, social dimensions of immigration |
| Matthew Douglass | Director, Master of Applied Science Program | UNL | Prehistoric/historic/modern human environmental interaction, lithic technology |
| Bruce Dvorak | Ray Fauss Professor, Civil Engineering | UNL | Environmental engineering, pollution prevention/environmental sustainability for industry |
| Janet Eckerson | Assistant Professor, Modern Languages; Graduate Program Chair | UNK | Spanish language, educational policy and practice impacting Latinx students |
| Mark Ellis | Professor, History; Dean of Graduate Studies | UNK | American Indians, Nebraska history |
| Nancy Engen-Wedin | Lecturer, TLTE; Program Manager, Lied Center for Performing Arts; Coordinator, Indigenous Roots Teacher Education Program, College of Education and Human Sciences | UNL | Education, Indigenous issues and education, arts and curriculum |
| Michael Forsberg | Research Assistant Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Photography, Master Naturalist program, conservation |
| Emily Frankel | Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine | UNMC | Great Plains health, community engagement and collaboration, place-based health systems |
| Thomas Franti | Associate Professor, Biological Systems Engineering | UNL | Water quality, urban stormwater, ecological engineering |
| Dana Fritz | Professor of Art (Photography) | UNL | Intersections of photography, landscape, and environment |
| Sherilyn Fritz | George Holmes Professor, Earth & Atmospheric sciences | UNL | Paleoclimatology, quaternary environments, climate change |
| Jeannette Gabriel | Director, Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies | UNO | Jewish and African American history in the Great Plains with an emphasis on race and gender |
| James Garza | Associate Professor, History, Ethnic Studies | UNL | Chicano/a, Latin America, Mexico |
| Lauren Gatti | Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | English education, teacher education, democratic education |
| Keith Geluso | Professor, Biology | UNK | Field biology, bats, rats, mammalogy |
| Maurice Godfrey | Director, SEPA at the Munroe Meyer Institute | UNMC | Connective tissue disorders, molecular genetics, Native American health science education |
| Susana Grajales Geliga | Lakota/Taino, Assistant Professor, History and Native American Studies | UNO | Great Plains Studies, Lakota language, Native American women, construction of Native American identities in the early twentieth century |
| Patricio Grassini | Associate Professor, Agronomy and Horticulture | UNL | Crop physiology, yield potential, resource efficiency |
| Jason Griffiths | Associate Professor in the College of Architecture | UNL | Mass timber construction, forestry harvesting, local tree species (eastern redcedar and green ash), community architecture, adaptive reuse of abandoned buildings, carbon sequestration |
| Brandon Grimm | Senior Associate Dean, College of Public Health; Associate Prof., Health Promotion | UNMC | Workforce and leadership development |
| Ramón Guerra | Associate Professor, English; Editor, Great Plains Quarterly | UNO | Chicano/a literature, Latino/a literature, postmodernism |
| Erin Haacker | Assistant Professor, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Hydrology of the High Plains Aquifer, agricultural water use, modeling the movement of groundwater |
| Tonya Haigh | Rural Sociology Research Specialist | UNL | Climate adaptation and adaptive capacity |
| Edmund “Ted” Hamann | Professor, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education | UNL | Education policy implementation across tiers, underserved student populations |
| Paul Hanson | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Evolution of the Platte River system, river response to climate change |
| Deryl K. Hatch-Tocaimaza | Associate Professor, Educational Leadership & Higher Education | UNL | Community college environments and equity related to place |
| Michael Hayes | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Drought planning, impacts, vulnerability, climate change |
| Kate Heelen | Department Chair, Professor, Exercise Science | UNK | Physical activity, community wellness and pediatric obesity prevention and treatment program |
| Leon Higley | Professor, Entomology | UNL | Physiological ecology, conservation biology |
| Brandi Hilton-Hagemann | Rural Prosperity Nebraska Extension Educator | UNL | Community development, rural towns, leadership |
| Angel Hinzo | Assistant Professor, History and Ethnic Studies | UNL | History and federal Indian policy from mid-19th century to the present |
| Mark Hoistad | Professor Emeritus, Architecture; Director, Landscape Architecture | UNL | Materiality in design, sustainable urbanism |
| Angeloa Hollman | Associate Professor, Cyber Systems | UNK | Cyber security in education |
| Adam Houston | Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Atmospheric convection, severe weather, climatology |
| Qi Steven Hu | Professor, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Warm season precipitation, atmospheric science, climate |
| Andrew Husa | Lecturer, Geography | UNL | Rural geography, small town identity, and attachment to rural landscape, especially in the Great Plains |
| Regina Idoate | Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion | UNMC | Medial humanities, Indigenous health sovereignty, community health improvement |
| Margaret Jacobs | Professor, History; Director, CGPS | UNL | Indigenous Peoples, women, colonialism, decolonization |
| Katrina Jagodinsky | Associate Professor, History | UNL | North American West, comparative legal history, borderlands |
| Matt Joeckel | Professor & Senior Associate Director, Natural Resources | UNL | Sedimentology, stratigraphy |
| Shawn Kaskie | Extension Educator, Rural Prosperity Nebraska | UNL | Regional planning and economic development |
| Wendy Katz | Professory, Art History | UNL | 19th-century American genre painting, landscapes, Great Plains |
| Pamela Steele Kellar | Associate Professor, Biology | UNO | Plant systematics, Great Plains flora, tallgrass prairie, plant biodiversity |
| Lydiah Kiramba | Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning, & Teacher Education | UNL | Bilingual and ESL Education, Second/additional language acquisition and teacher education |
| Darby Kurtz | Assistant Professor; Special Collections Curator, McGoogan Health Sciences Library | UNMC | Artifact care and conservation, disaster preparedness for humanities institutions, medical humanities |
| Beth Lewis | Professor, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Secondary science education; teacher learning, professional development, and leadership; geoscience education issues |
| Salvador Lindquist | Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture | UNL | Environmental and climate justice, community engaged design, mapping and visualization |
| Jeremy Lipschultz | Professor, Journalism & Media Communication | UNO | Social media law, regulation and ethics, media use |
| Andrew Little | Assistant Professor, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Wildlife ecology and management, precision agriculture, landscape ecology, habitat management |
| Peter Longo | Professor, Political Science, Editor, Great Plains Research | UNK | Public policy, constitutional law |
| Jaime Lopez | Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Planning | UNL | Environmental justice, community engagement in urban and rural planning, environmental health impacts of industrial pollution, climate change adaptation in vulnerable communities |
| Elizabeth Lorang | Associate Professor, University Libraries | UNL | Digital humanities, co-director Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project |
| Louise Lynch-O'Brien | Assistant Professor, Entomology | UNL | Insect biology, community/citizen science, One Health Extension, informal science education and literacy |
| Craig Maher | Professor, Public Administration | UNO | Small and rural Great Plains communities |
| Harmon Maher | Professor, Geology | UNO | Geology of the Great Plains, geologic mapping |
| Rezaul Mahmood | Director, High Plains Regional Climate Center; Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Weather and climate sciences |
| Kristin Malek | Assistant Professor, Hospitality and Tourism | UNL | ROI of events, economy development and economic impact of events, rural tourism, event operations |
| Nic McMillan | Assistant Professor Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Interactions between large herbivores and landscape disturbances, landscape heterogeneity, the role of large herbivores in shaping grassland dynamics, grasslands |
| Brooke McWherter | Research Assistant Professor Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Human dimensions of agriculture, water and wildlife, decision-making and engagement with rural community members and supporting organizations |
| Melanie Menning | Director Community Engagement and Outreach, Great Plains IDEA-CTR Assistant Dean, Community Engagement UNMC Family Medicine Associate Professor | UNMC | Health-related community outreach, diverse populations, health professional education |
| Gwendŵr Meredith | Assistant Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Native North Americans, Social-ecological systems |
| Carrie Meyer | Assistant professor, head of special collections and archives | UNMC | Museum exhibitions and curation, health humanities, Nebraska's healthcare history |
| Amanda Morales | Associate Professor, Teacher, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Immigrant, migrant and multicultural education |
| Max Mueller | Assistant Professor, Classics & Religious Studies | UNL | History of American religion, history of the American West's race and religion |
| Shannon Mulhearn | Assistant Professor, Physical Education | UNK | Stress and coping, and teacher education preparation |
| Laura K. Muñoz | Assistant Professor, History & Ethnic Studies | UNL | Mexican American, Chicanx and Latinx communities in the U.S. with an emphasis on race, gender and education in the American West |
| Yunwoo Nam | Associate Professor, Community & Regional Planning | UNL | Urban environment, spatial variation and land consumption patterns |
| Charlotte Narjes | Rural Prosperity Nebraska Extension Educator | UNL | Agricultural economics, cooperatives, rural communities |
| Sarah Nelson | Assistant Professor, Geography, Affiliate of Medical Humanities, Native American Studies | UNO | Oral ways of knowing, aging in Indigenous communities, cultural safety in health care |
| Katie Nieland | Associate Director & Communications Coordinator, CGPS | UNL | Ecotourism, graphic design, journalism |
| Alan Osborn | Associate Professor, Sociology & Anthropology | UNO | Great Plains archaeology, Paleoindian adaptations, nutritional anthropology |
| David James Peterson | Associate Professor, Women & Gender Studies, Native American studies | UNO | 16th-20th century American literature, gay and lesbian studies |
| Aprille Phillips | Associate Professor, Educational Administration | UNK | Education policy implementation in minoritized communities |
| Larkin Powell | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Conservation biology, wildlife ecology and management |
| John Raible | Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion; Professor, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Transracial adoption and multicultural families |
| Athena Ramos | Associate Professor, College of Public Health and Central States Center for Agricultural Safety and Health | UNMC | Latino health, health disparities, health and safety of agricultural and meatpacking workers, immigrant integration in small towns, community well-being |
| Emily Rau | Assistant Professor, Libraries; Editor, Willa Cather Archive | UNL | American literature, digital humanities, Willa Cather, and the Great Plains |
| Eric Reed | Professor, Director of Transfer Programs at Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture in Curtis | UNL | Literature of U.S. West, Great Plains historical violence |
| Letitia Reichart | Professor, Biology | UNK | Avian biology, molecular ecology, behavioral ecology |
| Guy Reynolds | Professor, English; Chair, Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee | UNL | Willa Cather project, American literature |
| Todd Richardson | James R. Schumacher Chair of Ethics; Professor, Goodrich Scholarship Program | UNO | Folklore, creative thinking and expression |
| Beth Ritter | Associate Professor, Anthropology & Native American Studies | UNO | Contemporary Native American issues, federal Indian policy |
| Barbara Robins | Associate Professor, English | UNO | Contemporary Native American literature |
| Travis Robbins | Assistant Professor, Biology | UNO | Vertebrate adaptations to thermal environments, evolution of social intelligence, epigenetic inheritance |
| Clinton Rowe | Professor & Department Chair, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Meteorology, climatology, climate modeling |
| Sabrina Russo | Professor, Biology | UNL | Plant ecology and diversity |
| Thomas Sanchez | Associate Professor, Sociology & Latino/Latin American Studies | UNO | Migration and immigration, race/ethnic/minority relations, theory |
| Timothy Schaffert | Professor & Director of Creative Writing, English | UNL | Creative writing, fiction writing |
| Marilyn Schlake | Rural Prosperity Nebraska Extension Educator | UNL | Community economic development, entrepreneurship, nonprofits, strategic planning |
| Allison Schlosser | Assistant Professor, Sociology & Anthropology | UNO | Sociocultural medical anthropology, ethnographic methods, anthropology of drug use, and health disparities. |
| Anthony Schutz | Associate Professor, Law; Associate Dean for Faculty | UNL | Agricultural, environmental law, land use |
| Casey Seger | Collections Manager, Great Plains Art Museum | UNL | Digital humanities, museum studies, digital asset management |
| Julie Shaffer | Professor, Biology; Co-Chair of Department | UNK | Invertebrate microbial iteractions |
| Jessica Shoemaker | Steinhart Foundation Distinguished Professor, Law | UNL | Community economic development, federal Indian law, land use, property law |
| Patricia Simpson | Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures (German) | UNL | German literature and immigration, language learning |
| Kelly Smith | Drought Impacts Researcher, Assistant Director and Communications Coordinator, National Drought Mitigation Center | UNL | Drought impacts, climate impacts, crowdsourcing, big data, drought signal |
| Suzanne Maughan Spencer | Sociology Department Chair | UNK | Rural youth as they transition to adulthood, and the impact that they will have in their home communities |
| Christopher Steinke | Associate Professor & Graduate Program Chair, History | UNK | Plains Indians, waterways, Pawnee, Arikaras, environmental history |
| Crystal Stiles | Adjunct Professor, Natural Resources; Tribal Engagement Coordinator, NIDIS-NOAA-CIRES | UNL | Climate science, drought management, river basins, geography |
| Asa Stone | Research Assistant Professor Agricultural Economics, Editor of Great Plains Research | UNL | Regional climate resilience, community wellbeing, research ethics |
| Mark Stone | Professor and Department Head, Biological Systems Engineering | UNL | Social-ecological resilience, Cconvergence science, responsible AI |
| William Stoutamire | Assistant Professor, History | UNK | Material culture, historic preservation, U.S. West, heritage tourism |
| Xianhgmin Sun | Research Assistant Professor, micrometeorologist | UNL | Greenhouse gases from agricultural ecosystems (corn and soybean) and pasture sites in the Great Plains |
| Erin Sweeney | Associate Professor – Health and Physical Education, Graduate Program Chair | UNK | Health pedagogy, adolescent health, substance use, and sexual health |
| Tsegaye Tadesse | Research Professor, Natural Resources; Geospatial Coordinator, National Drought Mitigation Center | UNL | Drought monitoring, natural resource management |
| Zhenghong Tang | Professor & Program Director, Community & Regional Planning | UNL | Environmental planning, geospatial science and technology |
| Brigitte Tenhumberg | Professor, Biological Sciences | UNL | Plant and insect ecology, life history evolution |
| Elizabeth Theiss-Morse | Willa Cather Professor, Political Science | UNL | Public opinion concerning democracy and civil liberties |
| Julie Tippens | Associate Professor, Child, Youth & Family Studies | UNL | Forced migration and global health, social and structural determinants of refugees' health and wellbeing |
| Nathan Tye | Assistant Professor, History | UNK | Agricultural history, Great Plains history |
| David Vail | Associate Professor, History | UNK | History of aerial pesticide application and food production in North American grasslands |
| Isabel Velázquez | Professor & Graduate Chair, Spanish | UNL | Sociolinguistics, bilingualism, US Spanish, language contact, heritage speaker pedagogy, minority language maintenance and loss |
| LuAnn Wandsnider | Professor, Anthropology; Associate Director, SGIS | UNL | Pre-Columbian archaeology of the North American central/high plains |
| Ran Wang | Assistant Professor, Environmental Spatial Scientist | UNL | Biodiversity, productivity, ecosystem function, energy balance, climate feedback, remote sensing |
| Wenjie Wang | Assistant Professor Geospatial Data and Programs Librarian | UNL | Geospatial data infrastructure, land use, land cover change, GIS service models, library-based geospatial support |
| Brian Wardlow | Prof., Natural Resources; Director, Center for Advanced Land Management Information Technologies | UNL | GIS, drought monitoring |
| Michelle Warren | Associate Professor, Spanish | UNK | Themes of culture, nationality, and ethnicity; theatre, film, and narrative |
| Laurinda Weisse | Associate Professor; University Archivist and Digital Repository Manager, Calvin T. Ryan Library | UNK | Ethnic studies, history, Nebraska, women and gender |
| Jeffrey Westrop | Assistant Geoscientist, Natural Resources | UNL | Aqueous geochemistry, biogeochemistry, sedimentology, water quality |
| Ashley Wilkinson | Director/Curator, Great Plains Art Museum | UNL | Twentieth-century American art, New Deal-era printmaking |
| Cynthia Willis-Esqueda | Associate Professor, Psychology, Ethnic Studies | UNL | Race and ethnic bias, Native American populations |
| Donna Woudenberg | Lecturer, Women's & Gender Studies | UNL | Human interactions with the environment |
| Melissa Wuellner | Associate Professor, Biology | UNK | Fisheries ecology and management, human dimensions of wildlife and fisheries |
| Judy Wu-Smart | Extension & Research Entomologist | UNL | Bee Lab leader, pesticide exposure, landscapes, stressors on bee behavior |
| Sarah Zuckerman | Associate Professor, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | State-level educational policy implementation and school-community partnerships, particularly in the context of rural communities |