Great Plains Fellows: History | Center for Great Plains Studies

Name	Title	Institution	Specialty
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
Donna Anderson	Mellon Research Assistant Professor in U.S. Law and Race, History	UNL	Asian American History, Midwestern history, race and law, immigration
Melissa Amateis	Journals Assistant, Center for Great Plains Studies	UNL	World War II history on the Great Plains
Laura Cannon	Assistant Professor, History	University of the Incarnate Word	U.S.-Mexico borderlands, labor history, and citizenship and civil rights
Roger P. Davis	Professor, History	UNK	Latin America, U.S.-Latin America relations
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
Mark Ellis	Professor, History; Dean of Graduate Studies	UNK	American Indians, Nebraska history
Eric L. Ewing	Executive Director; Adjunct Professor, Bellevue University	Great Plains Black History Museum	Regional history, education, management, leadership
Jacob Friefeld	Illinois and Midwest Studies Research Historian	Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum	Public history, nineteenth-century studies, homesteading
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
Pekka Hämäläinen	Rhodes Professor of American History	St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford	Borderlands, Plains Indian trade, fur trade, Santa Fe Trail
Angel Hinzo	Assistant Professor, History and Ethnic Studies	UNL	History and federal Indian policy from mid-19th century to the present
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
Jeffrey A. Johnson	Professor, History	Providence College	Radical labor, politics, and reform in the late 19th and early 20th century American West
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
Autumn Langemeier	Historical Marker Equity Program Coordinator	History Nebraska	Local and state commemorative efforts, rural women’s history, material culture, and historically underrepresented communities
Elaine Marie Nelson	Assistant Professor, History; Executive Director, Western History Association	University of Kansas	North American West, Native American, gender history
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
Brenden Rensink	Associate Professor, History; Associate Director, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies	Brigham Young University	North American West, Indigenous peoples, transnational borderlands
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.
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
Baligh Ben Taleb	Assistant Professor, History	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
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
Rebecca Wingo	Director of Public History, Assistant Professor	University of Cincinnati	Indigenous history, homesteading, housing, digital history
Carroll Van West	Director, Center for Historic Preservation	Middle Tennessee State University	19th/20th Century Southern and Western culture, architecture

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