Great Plains Fellows: Place Studies

NameTitleInstitutionSpecialty
Brian CannonProfessor & Department Chair, HistoryBrigham Young UniversityAgricultural settlement, rural community development, and federal rural policy in the 20th Century
Lee DavisAssociate Professor Emeritus, California StudiesSan Francisco State UniversityAnthropology, American Indian culture, religion
Kalenda EatonAssociate Professor, The Clara Luper Department of African & African American StudiesUniversity of OklahomaBlack American West, African American literature, Women’s Studies, Africana Studies
Andrew GraybillProfessor, History; Director, Clements Center for Southwest StudiesSouthern Methodist UniversityNorth American West history of expansion, borders, race, violence
Johnathan HladikPolicy DirectorCenter for Rural AffairsFarm landscape, environmental policy, clean energy
Jeffrey A. JohnsonProfessor, HistoryProvidence CollegeRadical labor, politics, and reform in the late 19th and early 20th century American West
Charlene PorsildPresident/CEOThe Montana History FoundationNorth American West, Canadian Studies, Klondike Gold Rush, gender history
Robert ThackerDana Professor of English and Chair of Canadian StudiesSt. Lawrence UniversityEnglish, Canadian and Western literature, landscape in literature
Harry ThompsonExecutive Director, Center for Western StudiesAugustana UniversityNew West, poststructuralism/theory, South Dakota, Great Plains authors
Clinton WhiteProfessor EmeritusCampion College, University of ReginaCanadian history