Great Plains Fellows: Native American Studies and Ethnic Studies | Center for Great Plains Studies

Name	Title	Institution	Specialty
Omowale Akintunde	Chair, Black Studies	UNO	Education, race, and diversity
Matt Bokovoy	Senior Acquisitions Editor, University Press	UNL	Indigenous studies, borderlands history
Richard Breaux	Associate Professor, Race/Gender/Sexuality Studies	University of Wisconsin-La Crosse	African American history, education history, black education
Gabriel Bruguier	Education and Outreach Coordinator, Mid-America Transportation Center	UNL	Philosophy, Native American philosophy, Native American student success
Miguel Carranza	Prof., Director Emeritus, Latina/Latino Studies & Sociology	UNL	Latino/Chicano studies, immigrant communities; mentoring at-risk youth; minority/majority relations
Richmond Clow	Professor, Native American Studies	University of Montana	Tribal resource management, politics on Montana's Reservations
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn	Professor Emeritus, Native Studies	Eastern Washington University	Native Americans, writing, South Dakota
Cory DeRoin	Coordinator	Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project	Environmental knowledge, food sovereignty, Otoe-Missouria relations
Brady DeSanti	Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Director of Native American Studies	UNO	Native American religious traditions, religion and popular culture, Native American history
Cristián Doña-Reveco	Associate Prof., Sociology & Anthropology, Director, Office of Latino/Latin American Studies	UNO	Latin American migrations, social dimensions of immigration
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
Mark Eifler	Associate Professor, History	University of Portland	History, North American frontiers, American history, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies
Lisa Emmerich	Professory Emeritus, History	California State University	American history, Office of Indian Affairs, California Indians
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
Elizabeth Fenn	Professor, History	University of Colorado Boulder	Early American West, Native American history, epidemic disease
Elizabeth Franklin	Professor Emeritus, Hispanic Studies	University of Northern Colorado	Hispanic Studies, literacy in bilingual classrooms
Judi gaiashkibos	Executive Director	Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs	Nebraska, Native Americans
James Garza	Associate Professor, History, Ethnic Studies	UNL	Chicano/a, Latin America, Mexico
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
Christina Faw Faw Goodson	Co-director	Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project	Cultural linguistics, language revitalization, history
Ralph Grajeda	Assoc. Professor Emeritus, English/Ethnic Studies	UNL	Mexican American literature, ethnic literature
Ramón Guerra	Associate Professor, English; Editor, Great Plains Quarterly	UNO	Chicano/a literature, Latino/a literature, postmodernism
P. Jane Hafen	Professor Emeritus, English	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	Native American Studies, American literature, American West
Dennis Hastings	Founder, Director	Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, Inc.	Genealogical research, Omaha language, religion, music
Ted Hibbeler	Tribal Extension Educator	UNL	Education, Indigenous food sovereignty, economic development, career development, conservation, leadership; Member of the Rosebud Sioux Nation (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) in South Dakota
Angel Hinzo	Assistant Professor, History and Ethnic Studies	UNL	History and federal Indian policy from mid-19th century to the present
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
Regina Idoate	Assistant Professor, Department of Health Promotion	UNMC	Medial humanities, Indigenous health sovereignty, community health improvement
Bruce Johansen	Professor Emeritus, Communication, Native American Studies	UNO	Environmental issues
Matthew Jones	Native historian	Lincoln, Neb.	Native American studies, tales, beast fables, creation stories
Francis W. Kaye	Professor Emeritus, English	UNL	Great Plains Studies, Native American studies, Canadian studies
Leo Killsback	Associate Professor, Native American Studies, Northern Cheyenne Nation	Montana State University	Indigenous governance, traditional law, sovereignty, treaty rights
Amelia María de la Luz Montes	Associate Professor, English & Ethnic Studies	UNL	Late Nineteenth and contemporary American literature, Chicana/o literature
Martha McCollough	Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology	UNL	Native North Americans, Great Plains
Wynema Morris	Adjunct Professor, Native American Studies, Omaha Tribe	Nebraska Indian Community College	Omaha Peoples, traditions of song, dance, social and political structures
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
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
Akim Reinhardt	Professor, History	Towson University	Native American history, Plains history, and regional political developments
James Riding In	Professor Emeritus, American Indian Studies; Editor, Wicazo Sa Review; Pawnee Nation	Arizona State University	Culture, human rights, Indigenous justice, Indian law, policy, racism, social movements
Beth Ritter	Associate Professor, Anthropology & Native American Studies	UNO	Contemporary Native American issues, federal Indian policy
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	UNL	Native American history, 19th Century
Shirley Sneve	Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications	Americans for the Arts	Native American film
Liahnna Stanley	Assistant Professor, Communications and Ethnic Studies	UNL	Rhetoric and cultural studies, literary criticism, speculative fiction, Indigenous sovereignty and critical theory
Kristine Sudbeck	Academic Dean	Nebraska Indian Community College	Native American history
Edward Valandra	Founder	Community for the Advancement of Native Studies	Native and cultural studies, Lakota-Euroamerican relations
Gwen Westerman	Artist and Professor, English	Minnesota State University in Mankato	Native American literature and art
Cynthia Willis-Esqueda	Associate Professor, Psychology, Ethnic Studies	UNL	Race and ethnic bias, Native American populations