Great Plains Fellows: History | Center for Great Plains Studies

Name	Title	Institution	Specialty
Armando Alonzo	Associate Professor, History	Texas A&M	Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish Borderlands history
Melissa Amateis	Journals Assistant, Center for Great Plains Studies	UNL	World War II history on the Great Plains
Peter Argersinger	Professor Emeritus, History	Southern Illinois University	Populism, politics, electoral process
Blake Bell	Historian	Homestead National Monument	Great Plains women, African Americans, immigrants, Civil War
Kent Blansett	Langston Hughes Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History	University of Kansas	Native American, modern U.S., Global Indigenous history
Judith Boughter	Instructor, History	UNO	History
Laura Cannon	Assistant Professor, History	University of the Incarnate Word	U.S.-Mexico borderlands, labor history, and citizenship and civil rights
Robert Carriker	Professor Emeritus, History	Gonzaga University	Jesuit missionaries, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Columbia River
James Carroll	Professor, History	Iona College	Native American history, education and pedagogy, transnational studies
Thomas Clark	Lecturer, History	Sacramento State University	Urban history, history of crime and poverty
Sara Crook	Professor, History and Political Science	Peru State College	United States Congress and Nebraska Politics
Harl Dalstrom	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	History of Omaha, Nebraska, Great Plains, upper Midwest, Canada-U.S. borderlands
Roger P. Davis	Professor, History	UNK	Latin America, U.S.-Latin America relations
Jeanne Eder	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Alaska	North American Indians, oral histories, museums
Mark Eifler	Associate Professor, History	University of Portland	History, North American frontiers, American history, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Mark Ellis	Professor, History; Dean of Graduate Studies	UNK	American Indians, Nebraska history
Lisa Emmerich	Professory Emeritus, History	California State University	American history, Office of Indian Affairs, California Indians
Richard Etulain	Professor Emeritus, History	University of New Mexico	Western American literature, culture and religion
Eric L. Ewing	Executive Director; Adjunct Professor, Bellevue University	Great Plains Black History Museum	Regional history, education, management, leadership
William Farr	Professor Emeritus, History; Senior Fellow, O'Conner Center for the Rocky Mountain West	University of Montana	Blackfoot Indians, Montana History, Native Americans
Elizabeth Fenn	Professor, History	University of Colorado Boulder	Early American West, Native American history, epidemic disease
Jacob Friefeld	Illinois and Midwest Studies Research Historian	Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum	Public history, nineteenth-century studies, homesteading
Harry Fritz	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Montana	American history, Western America, Montana, military history, Lewis and Clark, Civil War
Bruce Garver	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	Modern European history, transport history, Czech
James Garza	Associate Professor, History, Ethnic Studies	UNL	Chicano/a, Latin America, Mexico
H. Roger Grant	Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor, History	Clemson University	American railroad, transportation history
Dolories Greenberg	Professor Emeritus, History	Hunter College, CUNY	Energy, industrialization, modernization, TransAtlantic partnerships
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
James Hanson	Historian, Editor	Museum of the Fur Trade	American history, trans-Mississippi west, western expansion, plains Indian anthropology
C. Robert Haywood	Professor Emeritus, History	Washburn University	American West, Dust Bowl, fiction writing
Angel Hinzo	Assistant Professor, History and Ethnic Studies	UNL	History and federal Indian policy from mid-19th century to the present
Donovan Hofsommer	Professor Emeritus, History	St. Cloud State Unviersity	Transportation history, American West, Minnesota, public history
Teresa Houser	Founder and CEO	Magdalene Omaha	Great Plains history, sex trafficking and recovery programs
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
Margaret Heuttl	Program Director, Indigenous Studies	University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh	Native American history, history of the American West
Michel Hogue	Associate Professor, History	University of Carleton	Metis, the fur trade, and first peoples of the Great Plains
Douglas A. Hurt	Assistant Teaching Professor, Geography; Director of Undergraduate Studies	University of Missouri	Cultural and historical geography, geography education, North America
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
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
Katrina Jagodinsky	Associate Professor, History	UNL	North American West, comparative legal history, borderlands
Elizabeth Jameson	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Calgary	Women's history in the American West
Jeffrey A. Johnson	Professor, History	Providence College	Radical labor, politics, and reform in the late 19th and early 20th century 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
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
Louis Knafla	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Calgary	Canadian prairie history
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
Howard Lamar	Sterling Professor Emeritus, History, President Emeritus	Yale University	American West, frontier history
Autumn Langemeier	Historical Marker Equity Program Coordinator	History Nebraska	Local and state commemorative efforts, rural women’s history, material culture, and historically underrepresented communities
Susan Lawrence	Professor and Department Head, History	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	History of medicine
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
Timothy Mahoney	Professor, History	UNL	Nineteenth century U.S., urban history
Michael Mayer	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Montana	American law; Civil Rights movement; post-WWII culture
L.G. Moses	Professor Emeritus, History	Oklahoma State University	American Indian history, American West, history of anthropology, ethnohistory
Gary Moulton	Professor Emeritus, History	UNL	American West, Native Americans, Nebraska history, Lewis and Clark
Elaine Marie Nelson	Assistant Professor, History; Executive Director, Western History Association	University of Kansas	North American West, Native American, gender history
Roger Nichols	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Arizona	American frontier and West, Native Americans
Patrick O'Brien	Professor Emeritus, History	Emporia State University	Great Plains history
Richard Overfield	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	History
Jacqueline Peterson	Professor Emeritus, History and Comparative American Culture	Washington State University	American Indian history, race in colonial American society, history of Canada
Paula Petrik	Professor Emeritus, History & Art History	George Mason University	History of the Trans-Mississippi West, U.S. women's history, U.S. business history
Christopher Phillips	Assistant Professor Emeritus, History	Emporia State University	African American history, Civil War
William Pratt	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	Political science, women socialists, socialism
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
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
Ted Regehr	Professor Emeritus, History	University of Saskatchewan	History
Brenden Rensink	Associate Professor, History; Associate Director, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies	Brigham Young University	North American West, Indigenous peoples, transnational borderlands
James Ronda	Professor Emeritus & H.G. Barnard Chair, Western American History	University of Tulsa	American West exploration, Western American History and Literature
Mark Scherer	Professor, History	UNO	Legal & constitutional, Native American legal history, Nebraska & Great Plains
Douglas Seefeldt	Associate Professor, History	Clemson University	American West, environmental history, public history, digital, 19th and 20th Century U.S.
James Sherow	Professor, History	Kansas State University	Environmental history, Konza Prairie, American history
Jerold Simmons	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	American constitutional history, film, World War II
Dennis J. Smith	Assiniboine (Fort Peck); Associate Professor, History	UNO	Northern Plains tribes, Native American history, North American Indian cultures
Victoria Smith	Associate Professor Emeritus, History & Ethnic Studies	UNO	Native American history, 19th Century
Lawrence J and Barbara Sommer	Historian	Duluth Archaeology Center	Historic preservation, architecture, mining, museum administration
Christopher Steinke	Associate Professor & Graduate Program Chair, History	UNK	Plains Indians, waterways, Pawnee, Arikaras, environmental history
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
William Stoutamire	Assistant Professor, History	UNK	Material culture, historic preservation, U.S. West, heritage tourism
Orlan Svingen	Professor, History	Washington State University	American West, Indian-white relations, modern East Asia, North Cheyenne Indian Reservation
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
Michael L. Tate	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	American frontier history, Native American History
William Thomas III	John & Catherine Angle Chair, Humanities; Professor, History; CAS Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Education	UNL	Civil War, U.S. South, slavery, digital history
Tommy Thompson	Professor Emeritus, History	UNO	U.S. survey, American colonial, American South
Jinny Turman	Associate Professor, History	University of Virginia's College at Wise	Public history, Buffalo County, Kearney history, historic preservation
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
Vernon L. Volpe	Professor Emeritus, History	UNK	American history, Civil War
Jeff Wells	Associate Professor, History	Dickinson State University	Gilded Age, Progressive Era, digital history, populism
Clinton White	Professor Emeritus	Campion College, University of Regina	Canadian history
Rebecca Wingo	Director of Public History, Assistant Professor	University of Cincinnati	Indigenous history, homesteading, housing, digital history
Kenneth J. Winkle	Sorensen Professor, History	UNL	19th Century U.S. political, social, cultural, military history
Stephen Witte	Associate Editor	South Dakota State Historical Society Press	Buffalo Bill, Prince Maximilian
Carroll Van West	Director, Center for Historic Preservation	Middle Tennessee State University	19th/20th Century Southern and Western culture, architecture
John Wunder	Professor Emeritus, History, Director Emeritus, Center for Great Plains Studies	UNL	American West, Native American history, legal history
Ed Zimmer	Retired Historic Preservation Planner	Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Dept.	U.S. studies, history research methods, neighborhood history