| Name | Title | Institution | Specialty |
| Mohamed Aboushanab | Assistant Geoscientist, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Geology and hydrogeology with an emphasis on western Nebraska |
| Megan Adkins-Bollwitt | Professor, Physical Education | UNK | S.T.E.M., Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Teacher Education Preparation |
| Jonis Agee | Professor, English | UNL | Fiction, creative nonfiction, American literature |
| Omowale Akintunde | Chair, Black Studies | UNO | Education, race, and diversity |
| Arnold Alanen | Professor Emeritus, Landscape Architecture | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Planned communities, company towns, immigrant settlements |
| Sam Albrecht | Executive Director | Center for Association Leadership | Management |
| Craig Allen | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Fish and wildlife research, ecosystems resilience |
| John C Allen III | Dean, College of Humanities and Social Sciences | Utah State University | Sociology, rural communities, environmental sociology |
| Jessiline Anderson | Associate Professor, Psychology | UNO | Native American psychology |
| John Anderson | Professor Emeritus, Political Science | UNK | Social capital, rural communities, political discourse, Nebraska |
| Tim Anderson | Associate Professor Emeritus, Journalism | UNL | John G. Neihardt, design, Nebraska refugees and immigrants |
| J. Clark Archer | Professor Emeritus, Geography | UNL | Urban and regional geographer, GIS |
| Peter Argersinger | Professor Emeritus, History | Southern Illinois University | Populism, politics, electoral process |
| P. Stephen Baenziger | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy and Horticulture | UNL | Small grains breeding and genetics, wheat |
| Katherine Bahr | Professor Emeritus, English and Humanities | Chadron State | Mari Sandoz, Native Americans, Cuny Table |
| W. Kenton Bales | Professor Emeritus, Music | UNO | Music theory and composition |
| Royce Ballinger | Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | UNL | Evolutionary ecology, lizards, demography |
| Bradley Baltensperger | Professor Emeritus, Cognitive and Learning Sciences | Michigan Tech University | Geography, agriculture, Central Great Plains settlement |
| Tonya Bernadt | Education and Outreach Specialist, National Drought Mitigation Center | UNL | Climate, communication, education, workshops |
| Charles J. Bicak | Emeritus Senior VC Academic and Student Affairs | UNK | Plant/ecosystem response to environmental stress |
| Matthew Bice | Dean, School of Professional & Graduate Studies | Baker University | Higher education management, public health education, health interventionist |
| David P. Billesbach | Professor Emeritus, Biological Systems Engineering | UNL | Atmosphere, water usage in Nebraska Sandhills |
| Robert Blair | Professor Emeritus, Public Administration | UNO | City management, community & economic development policy |
| Joan Blauwkamp | Professor, Political Science | UNK | Political rhetoric in popular culture, public policy debates |
| Peter Bleed | Professor Emeritus, Anthropology | UNL | Technology, material culture, lithics, historic archaeology, Japan |
| Susanne Bloomfield | Professor Emeritus, English | UNK | Western American literature |
| Brian Blouet | Huby Professor, Geography & International Education | William & Mary | Political geography, U.S. settlement |
| Judith Boughter | Instructor Emeritus, History | UNO | History |
| Gail Bowen | Associate Professor Emeritus, English | Saskatchewan Indian Federated College | Crime writer |
| Ronald Bowlin | Director Emeritus, Kimball Hall | UNL | Economics |
| Rob Bozell | State Archaeologist Emeritus | Nebraska State Historical Society | Paleoenvironment, culture change |
| Charles Braithwaite | Editor Emeritus, Great Plains Quarterly | UNL | Intercultural communication, American Indian higher education |
| Dawn O. Braithwaite | Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies | UNL | Understudied families, communication rituals |
| James Brandle | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Woody plants in agricultural systems |
| Robert Brooke | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | Rural education, composition and rhetoric, critical theory |
| Nicholas Brozovic | Director of Policy, Water for Food Institute | UNL | Interdisciplinary water policy, economics, agriculture |
| Willa Bruce | Professor Emeritus, Public Administration | University of Illinois | Organization behavior, development and theory |
| Derrick Burbul | Department Chair & Professor, Art and Design | UNK | Environment and human relations |
| Amy Burgin | Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Kansas | Microbial ecology, aquatic ecosystems |
| Timothy Burkink | Assistant Vice Chancellor for International Affairs, Director, Study Abroad Program | UNK | Marketing, Food-related consumer behavior |
| Brian Cannon | Professor & Department Chair, History | Brigham Young University | Agricultural settlement, rural community development, and federal rural policy in the 20th Century |
| Rodrigo Cantarero | Associate Professor Emeritus, Community & Regional Planning | UNL | Minority issues, rural areas, GIS |
| Miguel Carranza | Prof., Director Emeritus, Latina/Latino Studies & Sociology | UNL | Latino/Chicano studies, immigrant communities; mentoring at-risk youth; minority/majority relations |
| Francine Carraro | Director Emeritus, Wichita Falls Museum of Art | Midwestern State University | Wildlife art, art history, Texas art |
| 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 |
| Ronald Case | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Wildlife population, biology, forestry, fisheries |
| David Carter | Director and Professor, Forensic Sciences | Chaminade University | Forensic taphonomy, postmortem microbiology, estimating postmortem interval |
| Elizabeth Chase | Executive Director | Nebraska Main Street Network | Community and regional planning, historic main streets |
| Christopher Chizinski | Associate Professor, Human Dimensions of Wildlife Management | UNL | Texas and Nebraska plains, fisheries, anglers, ecology |
| Paul Christensen | Professor, English | Texas A&M | 20th Century American poetry, Southwestern life and literature, creative writing |
| Valerie Cisler | Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication; Professor, Music | University of Wisconsin Stevens Point | Great Plains music, piano |
| Thomas Clark | Lecturer, History | Sacramento State University | Urban history, history of crime and poverty |
| Richmond Clow | Professor, Native American Studies | University of Montana | Tribal resource management, politics on Montana's Reservations |
| Margaret Coel | Writer, Guest Lecturer | Boulder, Colo. | The West: the mountains, plains, and vast spaces |
| Alison Cloet | Innovative and Learning-Centric Initiatives | UNO | lifelong learning, technology, and interaction design |
| John Comer | Professor Emeritus, Political Science | UNL | Public administration, policy, political behavior, U.S. politics |
| Maurice Conner | Professor Emeritus, German | UNO | German, foreign languages |
| Nancy Cook | Professor Emeritus, English | University of Montana | Western American studies, literature of place, literature and the environment |
| Elizabeth Cook-Lynn | Professor Emeritus, Native Studies | Eastern Washington University | Native Americans, writing, South Dakota |
| H. Jason Combs | Professor & Chair, Geography | UNK | Urban, cultural/historical, research methods |
| Sam Cordes | Co-Director Emeritus, Center for Regional Development | Purdue University | Agricultural economics, poverty analysis, social issues |
| Patricia C. Crews | Professor Emeritus, Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design | UNL | History, conservation, and performance of textiles |
| Sara Crook | Professor, History and Political Science | Peru State College | United States Congress and Nebraska Politics |
| Rochelle L. Dalla | Professor & Graduate Chair, Family and Consumer Science | UNL | Familial dynamics, women and human trafficking |
| Harl Dalstrom | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | History of Omaha, Nebraska, Great Plains, upper Midwest, Canada-U.S. borderlands |
| Lee Davis | Associate Professor Emeritus, California Studies | San Francisco State University | Anthropology, American Indian culture, regligion |
| Christopher S. Decker | Professor, Economics | UNO | Environmental and energy economics |
| Kenneth F. Dewey | Professor Emeritus, Geography | UNL | Storm climatology, climate change, drought |
| Barbara DiBernard | Professor Emeritus, English, Women's Studies | UNL | 20th Century women writers, lesbian writers, feminist pedagogy |
| Anne Diffendal | Consulting Archivist/Historian | Independent historian | Management of cultural institutions, management for archivists, political sciences, American history |
| Robert Diffendal, Jr. | Professor Emeritus, Conservation & Survey, Geology | UNL | Geology, historical geology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, geomorphology |
| Jeremy Dillon | Professor, Geography | UNK | Soils, geomorphology |
| Joshua DoleĹľal | Professor, English | Central College | American literature, Willa Cather, sustainability |
| Bree Dority | Professor, Finance | UNK | Salary, rural schools, and labor markets |
| Betsy Downey | Professor Emeritus, History | Gonzaga University | Environmental studies, Mari Sandoz, Cold War, Yellowstone |
| Mary Ellen Ducey | Associate Professor, Archivist | UNL | Special collections, university archives, Willa Cather, Sandoz |
| Richard Duncan | Sherman S. Welpton Jr. Professor, Law | UNL | Property, constitutional law |
| Joseph Dupris | Attorney | Oregon | Environment, Native Americans |
| William E. Easterling | Emeritus Assistant Director for the Directorate for Geosciences | National Science Foundation | Climate change and agriculture, food supply |
| Jeanne Eder | Professor Emeritus, History | University of Alaska | North American Indians, oral histories, museums |
| Richard Edwards | Professor, CGPS Director, Sr. Vice Chancellor Emeritus | UNL | Conservation, ecotourism, economics, history, demography |
| Aris Efting | Lecturer, Biology | College of Staten Island | Aquatic ecology, climate change and water quality, freshwater quality |
| 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 |
| George Engelmann | Professor, Geology | UNO | Vertebrate paleontology, mammalian evolution |
| Mark Engler | Superintendent Emeritus | Homestead National Monument | Homesteading |
| Ted Ertl | Associate Professor Emeritus, Architecture | UNL | Architectural history and theory, architects, environmental issues |
| James Estes | Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | UNL | Emeritus Director of UNL State Museum |
| Richard Etulain | Professor Emeritus, History | University of New Mexico | Western American literature, culture and religion |
| Duane Eversoll | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Environmental engeineering, geology, water resources, mapping |
| Rebecca Faber | Senior Career Advisor Emeritus | UNL | Education, career services, poetry |
| Sue Fairbanks | Associate Professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management | Oklahoma State University | Wildlife Biology, wildlife and grassland interactions, behavioral ecology |
| John Falconer | Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Executive Affairs | UNK | Grant writing, undergraduate student involvement |
| William Farr | Professor Emeritus, History; Senior Fellow, O'Conner Center for the Rocky Mountain West | University of Montana | Blackfoot Indians, Montana History, Native Americans |
| Michael Farrell | Project Coordinator Emeritus, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Platte Basin Timelapse Project, photography, history, humanities, rural and environmental issues |
| Elizabeth Fenn | Professor, History | University of Colorado Boulder | Early American West, Native American history, epidemic disease |
| Dennis Ferraro | Professor of Practice, Natural Resources | UNL | Herpetology, Master Naturalist program |
| Christopher Fielding | Professor Emeritus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleoclimatology |
| Joseph TJ Fontaine | Adjunct Faculty, Natural Resources | UNL | Wildlife ecology, Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Unit |
| Anne Foradori | Professor Emeritus, Music (Voice) | UNK | Women in music, prairie song |
| Charles A. Francis | Emeritus Professor, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Resource-efficient cropping systems, plant breeding |
| Elizabeth Franklin | Professor Emeritus, Hispanic Studies | University of Northern Colorado | Hispanic Studies, literacy in bilingual classrooms |
| Glen Fredlund | Associate Professor Emeritus, Geography | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | Geography, anthropology, geomorphology |
| Patricia Freeman | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Vertebrate biology, human effects on the environment |
| Christian Fritz | Professor Emeritus, Law | University of New Mexico | U.S. legal history, Western legal history, California history |
| Harry Fritz | Professor Emeritus, History | University of Montana | American history, Western America, Montana, military history, Lewis and Clark, Civil War |
| Sharon Gaber | Chancellor | University of North Carolina-Charlotte | Philosophy, city, community and regional planning, housing |
| Judi gaiashkibos | Executive Director | Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs | Nebraska, Native Americans |
| Thomas Gannon | Associate Professor, English & Ethnic Studies | UNL | Native American literature, ecocriticism |
| Ricardo Garcia | Professor Emeritus, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Curriculum and foundations of education, English education |
| Bruce Garver | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | Modern European history, transport history, Czech |
| Phil Geib | Associate Professor of Practice, Anthropology | UNL | Archaeology, hunter-gatherers, transition to agriculture |
| Hugh Genoways | Professor Emeritus, Nebraska State Museum | UNL | Systematics and ecology, mammology, biology |
| Roger Gibbins | President Emeritus | Canada West Foundation | Political science, Canadian politics, regionalism |
| Alan Gless | Emeritus District Court Judge | Nebraska 5th Judicial District | Nebraska Law, jury instruction language, self-incrimination, common law |
| Amy Goodburn | Professor, English; Senior Associate VC Academic Affairs | UNL | Critical and multicultural pedagogies, women's studies |
| Gloria Gonzalez-Kruger | Director Emeritus | Behavioral Health OneWorld Health Center | Health care |
| Ralph Grajeda | Assoc. Professor Emeritus, English/Ethnic Studies | UNL | Mexican American literature, ethnic literature |
| H. Roger Grant | Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor, History | Clemson University | American railroad, transportation history |
| Craig Grau | Assoc. Professor Emeritus, Political Science | University of Minnesota-Duluth | American government and politics, political parties |
| Dolories Greenberg | Professor Emeritus, History | Hunter College, CUNY | Energy, industrialization, modernization, TransAtlantic partnerships |
| Yoanna Greenwood | Lecturer, Spanish | UNL | Biology, language preservation, translation |
| Priscilla Grew | Professor Emertus, Director Nebraska State Museum | UNL | Biodiversity through geologic time, geology |
| Brian Gribben | Coordinator, Government Documents and Special Collections – Forsyth Library | Fort Hays State University | German immigration, Populism, freethought |
| Elizabeth Grobsmith | Provost Emeritus | Northern Arizona University | Anthropology, ethnology, native cultures of North America |
| Jeanne Kay Guelke | Professor Emeritus, Geography | University of Waterloo, Canada | Historical geography of human interactions with wilderness |
| John Guretzky | Associate Professor, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Grasslands, forage-beef production, perennial grasses |
| Christopher Gustafson | Associate Professor, Agricultural Economics | UNL | Behavioral economics, health disparities, rural communities |
| Maria Rosario de Guzman | Professor, Youth Development Extension Specialist; Chair, TMFD | UNL | Culture, migration, family life |
| P. Jane Hafen | Professor Emeritus, English | University of Nevada-Las Vegas | Native American Studies, American literature, American West |
| Robert Haller | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | English |
| John P. Hankey | Historian and Cultural Resource Consultant | Omaha, Neb. | History of technology, American railroading |
| Twyla Hansen | Poet | Lincoln, Neb. | Poetry, sustainable agriculture, rural land use |
| James Hanson | Historian, Editor | Museum of the Fur Trade | American history, trans-Mississippi west, western expansion, plains Indian anthropology |
| Mary Harner | Associate Professor, Biology & Communications | UNK | River ecosystems, migratory corridors, watersheds, science education and outreach |
| David Scott Hargrove | Professor Emeritus, Psychology | University of Mississippi | Rural mental health, psychology and literature |
| Sharon Harris | Professor Emeritus, English | University of Connecticut | 19th Century U.S. literature, women and reform movements, feminist literary theory |
| Richard Harrison | Professor Emeritus, English | University of Alberta | Canadian and American literature, history of language |
| Ed Harvey | Supervisory Hydrologist and Chief, NPS Water Resources Division | National Park Service | Hydrogeology, hydrology, water resource management and planning, national water policy |
| Francis Haskins | George Holmes Professor Emeritus, Agronomy | UNL | Cytogenetics, quantitative and biochemical genetics |
| Cody Havard | Professor, Sports and Leisure Commerce | University of Memphis | Rivalry, in-group bias, fan and consumer behavior |
| F. Gregory Hayden | Professor Emeritus, Economics | UNL | Ecological economics, public policy analysis, agricultural policy |
| C. Robert Haywood | Professor Emeritus, History | Washburn University | American West, Dust Bowl, fiction writing |
| R. Leslie Heathcote | Professor Emeritus, Geography | Flinders University of South Australia | Historical geography, environmental perception, drought |
| Ruth Heaton | Professor Emeritus, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Mathematics education |
| John Heaston | Consultant | Heaston Consulting | Water management, Platte River, anthropology, conservation planning |
| Tiffany Heng-Moss | Dean, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources | UNL | Insect ecology, plant-insect interactions, science literacy |
| Barbara Hewins-Maroney | Associate Professor, Public Administration | UNO | Urban studies, life span development, social problems, public administration |
| Ted Hibbeler | Educator | Independent | Education, Indigenous food sovereignty, economic development, career development, conservation, leadership; Member of the Rosebud Sioux Nation (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) in South Dakota |
| John Hibbing | Professor Emeritus, Political Science | UNL | Political psychology, biology and politics |
| Michael Hilt | Dean, Communication, Fine Arts, and Media | UNO | Broadcast education |
| Johnathan Hladik | Government & Public Affairs | Tallgrass Energy | Farm landscape, environmental policy, clean energy |
| Kyle C. Hoagland | Proessor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Toxicity of agricultural chemicals to algae in lakes and streams |
| Donovan Hofsommer | Professor Emeritus, History | St. Cloud State Unviersity | Transportation history, American West, Minnesota, public history |
| Drake Hokanson | Photographer & Author; Professor Emeritus, Mass Communications | Winona State University | Great Plains photography, grain elevators, nonfiction writing |
| Daniel Holtz | Professor Emeritus, English | Peru State College | Nebraska Literature, preparing secondary English teachers |
| Melissa Homestead | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | American literature, history of the book, Cather studies |
| Garald Horst | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Weed science, crop physiology, turfgrass management |
| Craig Howe | Director | Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies | Tribal history, museum exhibits |
| Robert Hower | Professor and Chair Emeritus, Art & Art History; President, United Designs Alliance | University of Texas at Arlington | Art, interactive projects, computer graphics |
| Kenneth G. Hubbard | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Warming climate impacts, meteorology, soil science |
| Elizabeth Ingraham | Professor Emeritus, Art & Art History | UNL | Textiles and material culture, computational creativity |
| Wes Jackson | President Emeritus | The Land Institute | Natural systems agriculture, botany, plant genetics, biology |
| N. Keith Jacobshagen II | Professor Emeritus, Art | UNL | Landscape art, painting |
| Elizabeth Jameson | Professor Emeritus, History | University of Calgary | Women's history in the American West |
| John Janovy, Jr. | Paula & D.B. Varner Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | UNL | Protozoology, parasitology |
| Andrew Jewell | Professor, Digital Projects | UNL | Willa Cather, digital humanities |
| Matthew Jockers | Senior Research Science Manager | Apple | Irish immigrants, place-based literature, digital humanities |
| Anthony Joern | University Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Biology | Kansas State University | Insect community ecology, insect/ plant interactions, grasslands |
| Bruce Johansen | Professor Emeritus, Communication, Native American Studies | UNO | Environmental issues |
| Charles Johanningsmeier | Professor, English | UNO | American regionalist literature, Willa Cather |
| Bruce B. Johnson | Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics | UNL | Natural resources, environmental economics |
| David Johnson | Professor, Sociology | Penn State University | Measurement techniques, structural equation models |
| James Johnson | Professor Emeritus, Political Science | UNO | American politics, Nebraska government political behavior |
| Matthew Jones | Native historian | Lincoln, Neb. | Native American studies, tales, beast fables, creation stories |
| Scott Josiah | Professor Emeritus, Director Nebraska Forest Service, Natural Resources | UNL | Forestry, agroforestry, wildland fire |
| Brennan Jordan | Professor, Sustainability and Environment | University of South Dakota | Volcanology, geodiversity, tourism |
| Toby Jurovics | Director | Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment | 19th, 20th Century photography and art of the American West |
| Stephen Kalish | Margaret R. Larson Professor Emeritus, Law | UNL | Law and humanities, legal process, ethics |
| David Karle | Associate Professor & Director, Architecture | UNL | Urbanism, architectural typologies |
| Sarah Thomas Karle | Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture | UNL | Site design and planning in environmentally sensitive ecosystems |
| Robert Kaul | Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | UNL | Plant taxonomy, Great Plains flora |
| Yasuhide Kawashima | Professor, History | University of Texas at El Paso | American history, colonial history, history of the Far East |
| Francis W. Kaye | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | Great Plains Studies, Native American studies, Canadian studies |
| Paul Kay | Associate Professor Emeritus, Environment and Resource Studies | University of Waterloo | Climate change, water resources |
| Kathy Keeler | Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | UNL | Great Plains plants and history, zoology, genetics, plant adaptation |
| Casey Ryan Kelly | Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Communication Studies | UNL | American Indian activism, no Dakota Access Pipeline movement |
| Martha Kennedy | Independent historian | Fairfax, Va. | American cartooning history, caricature, illustration |
| Jon Kilpinen | Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor, Geography | Valparaiso University | American historical geography, Europe, political geography, GIS |
| Louis Knafla | Professor Emeritus, History | University of Calgary | Canadian prairie history |
| Lisa Knoche | Research Assoc. Prof., Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families, & Schools | UNL | At-risk children and families, early care and education; Getting Ready Project Director |
| Ted Kooser | Presidential Professor Emeritus, English | University of Nebraska | Poetry, essays |
| Lisa Knopp | Professor, English | UNO | Creative nonfiction, Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte rivers |
| Cody Knutson | Research Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Water resources, environmental geography |
| Jesse Korus | Associate Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Groundwater geology, Sedimentology, and Stratigraphy |
| Marjorie Kostelnik | Professor Emeritus, Child, Youth, & Family Studies | UNL | Early education, community coalition building |
| Nancy Tystad Koupal | Director; Editor-in-Chief, Pioneer Girl Project | South Dakota Historical Society Press | American literature, South Dakota, Dakota women, children's literature |
| Lisi Krall | Professor, Economics | SUNY-Cortland | Ecology, environmental policy, history |
| David Kromm | Professor Emeritus, Geography | Kansas State University | Water resources, natural resources management |
| Dennis Kuhnel | Director | Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center | Archaeology, Native American literature, environmental law |
| Karen Kunc | Professor Emeritus, Art | UNL | Printmaking, papermaking, book arts |
| Gina Kunz | Project Co-Director, Carolina Family Engagement Center | University of South Carolina | Licensed psychologist, children, youth, family, and school studies |
| Robert Kuzelka | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Natural resources, water policy and management |
| Rebecca Lacome | Steven Mather Training Department | Harper Ferrys Center | Biological diversity, natural history of the prairies, Mammoth Cave National Park, folklore |
| John La Duke | Professor Emeritus, Dean, Biology, Natural and Social Sciences | UNK | Natural and social sciences |
| Renee Laegreid | Professor, History | University of Wyoming | Western women's history, American West |
| Thomas Laging | Professor Emeritus, Architecture | UNL | Urban design |
| 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 |
| Charles Lamphear | Karl Nelson Professor Emeritus, Economics | UNL | Economic theory, history, regional economics, statistics |
| David Landis | Director Emeritus | City of Lincoln Urban Development | Political science, history, law, public administration |
| Donald Landon | Professor Emeritus, Sociology | Missouri State University | Civic renewal, legal profession in community context |
| Brent Lathrop | Director Emeritus, Southeast Wyoming | The Nature Conservancy | Community and regional planning, geography |
| Merlin Lawson | Professor Emeritus, Geosciences, UNL | UNL | Geography, climate of western interior U.S., geology |
| Susan Lawrence | Professor and Department Head, History | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | History of medicine |
| Ronald Lee | Professor Emeritus, Communication Studies | UNL | American political discourse |
| Emily Levine | Extension Technologist, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Great Plains, Lakota/Dakota history/culture, native plants, history of plains horticulture |
| David Lewis | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Soil science |
| G. Malcom Lewis | Senior Lecturer Emeritus, Geography | University of Sheffield, England | Geography |
| 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 |
| David B. Loope | Professor Emeritus, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Wind-blown sediments on the Great Plains |
| Svata Louda | Charles Bessey Professor Emeritus, Biological Sciences | UNL | Ecology, plant-insect herbivore interactions |
| Joseph Luther | Professor Emeritus, Community & Regional Planning | UNL | Architecture, environmental design, urban/regional planning |
| Vicki Braglio Luther | Founding Co-Director | Heartland Center for Leadership Development | Educational leadership, community development |
| Thomas Lynch | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | Cross-cultural ecocriticism, place-conscious literary studies |
| Gary Lynne | Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics | UNL | Motivations in natural resource conservation |
| Satoshi Machida | Professor, Political Science | UNK | Comparative politics and international relations |
| Margaret MacKichan | Director Emeritus, Great Plains Art Institute | Sinte Gleska University | Native American art history, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture |
| Craig MacPhee | Professor Emeritus, Economics | UNL | International trade and investment |
| Susan Naramore Maher | Dean Emeritus, Liberal Arts | University of Minnesota-Duluth | Western American literature, children's literature, creative nonfiction of the Plains and West |
| Timothy Mahoney | Professor, History | UNL | Nineteenth century U.S., urban history |
| Christie Maloyed | Associate Professor, Political Science | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Political theory |
| Harvey Markowitz | Professor Emeritus, Sociology/Anthropology | Washington and Lee University | Relationships among American Indian religions, landscapes, cultures, histories, and identities |
| Jerome Martin | Publisher | Spotted Cow Press | Visual arts, music, communications, western Canadian history |
| Leanne Martin | Financial Professional | Financial Architects Inc. | Prairie restoration, plant species diversity, seed, ecology |
| Joseph Mason | Professor & Department Chair, Geography | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, hillslope geomorphology |
| Martin Massengale | Former Director, Center for Grassland Studies, Prof. Emeritus Agronomy/Hort. | UNL | Interdisciplinary grassland research |
| Ann Mari May | Professor Emeritus, Economics | UNL | Gender and higher education |
| Michael Mayer | Professor Emeritus, History | University of Montana | American law; Civil Rights movement; post-WWII culture |
| John McCarty | Professor, Biology; Director, Environmental Studies | UNO | Grassland birds in agricultural ecosystems |
| Martha McCollough | Associate Professor Emerita, Anthropology | UNL | Native North Americans, Great Plains |
| Arthur McEvoy | Professor Emeritus, Law | Southwestern Law School | Environmental law, water rights, California fisheries |
| Mary McNamee | Assoc. Prof. Emeritus, Assistant VC Academic Affairs, Student Recruitment | UNMC | Health care needs of the homeless |
| George Melnyk | Professor Emeritus, Communication-Media & Film | University of Calgary | Canadian studies, Canadian Plains, protest in Western Canada, peace studies, Canadian cinema |
| Orville Menard | Professor Emeritus, Political Science | UNO | Political science |
| Josie Metal-Corbin | Professor, Health, Physical Education | UNO | Dance education, stress management |
| Doris Meredith | Writer, Public Lecturer | Amarillo, Texas | Mystery literature, historical fiction, American West |
| Sarah Michaels | Professor, Political Science | UNL | Water resources policy and governance |
| Tice Miller | Professor Emeritus, Theatre Arts | UNL | American theatre history, dramatic literature, criticism |
| Ken Mitchell | Professor Emeritus, English | University of Regina, Canada | Plains literature, cowboy poetry |
| Helen Moore | Professor Emeritus, Sociology | UNL | Inequality of class, gender, race |
| 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 |
| Alicia Mullarkey | Director and Education Coordinator | Driftless Area Wetlands Centre | Nature preserves |
| N. Brito Mutunayagam | Professor Emeritus, Community & Regional Planning | UNL | Regional and small town planning |
| Harold Nagel | Professor Emeritus, Biology | UNK | Entomology, soils, botany, ecology |
| Katherine Nashleanas | Lecturer, Geography | UNL | Human geography, Nebraska geography, teaching geography |
| David Nesheim | Independent Scholar | Chadron State College | Great Plains, bison research |
| George Neubert | Director | Flatwater Folk Art Museum | Modern art history, 20th Century sculpture, museum management, 19th/20th Century American art |
| 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 |
| David Ogden | Professor, Communication Studies | UNO | Baseball |
| Duane Olsen | Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics | UNL | Agricultural economics |
| Paul A. Olson | Kate Foster Regents Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | Medieval literature, Plains and Plains Indian literature |
| Wayne Osgood | Associate Professor Emeritus, Sociology | Penn State University | Sociology, population |
| Tyra Olstad | Assistant Professor, Geography & Environmental Sustainability | SUNY - Oneonta | Environmental science, monitoring, and history |
| Suzanne Ortega | President | Council of Graduate Schools | Social gerontology, social psychology, adult socialization, reference group therapy |
| Richard Overfield | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | History |
| Keith Parker | Professor, Sociology | University of Georgia | Educational aspirations, social and applied demography, social movements, social stratification |
| Linda Parker | Associate Professor | UNO | Criss Library |
| Gerald Parsons | Associate Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Leadership, Education and Communication | UNL | Agricultural leadership, education and communication |
| Mark Pegg | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Fisheries ecologist, aquatic ecosystems |
| Charles Peek | Professor Emeritus, English | UNK | Composition, American literature, Black studies |
| Lisa Pennisi | Professor of Practice Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Human impacts on natural resources, communicating science, environmental education |
| Don Perkins | Lecturer, English | University of Alberta | Canadian drama, Native literatures, and popular culture, Canadian theatre history, trickster stories and literature |
| Edward Peters | Professor Emeritus, School of Natural Resources | UNL | Fish ecology, fisheries science, natural resources |
| John G. Peters | Professor Emeritus, Political Science, University President | Northern Illinois University | American governent, public issues, public policy analysis |
| 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 |
| Jamilynn Poletto | Assistant Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Fish behavior and physiology, conservation, climate change |
| Frank Pommersheim | Professor Emeritus, Law | University of South Dakota | Indian law, federal jurisdiction, rights of indigenous peoples, criminal law, criminal procedure |
| Debra Ponec | Professor, Education | Creighton University | Guidance & counseling curriculum, relationships within school communities, immigrant students |
| Deborah Popper | Professor Emeritus, Earth and Environmental Sciences; Visiting Professor at High Meadows Environmental Institute | CUNY-College of Staten Island | Environmental pressure and population loss, ecological restoration, Buffalo Commons |
| Frank Popper | Professor Emeritus, Planning and Public Policy; Visiting Professor at High Meadows Environmental Institute | Rutgers University | Land-use planning, environmental history, population decline, Buffalo Commons |
| Charlene Porsild | President/CEO | The Montana History Foundation | North American West, Canadian Studies, Klondike Gold Rush, gender history |
| Joseph Porter | Curator section chief | North Carolina Museum of History | American history, Western U.S. history and art, Native American history, Plains Indian art |
| William Powers | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Agronomy, horticulture |
| Linda Pratt | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | English literature |
| William Pratt | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | Political science, women socialists, socialism |
| Byron Price | Director, University of Oklahoma Press; Director, Charles M. Russell Center; Charles Marion Russell Chair, Art History | University of Oklahoma | Art of the American West |
| John Price | Professor, English | UNO | Great Plains literature, environmental literature |
| Diane Quantic | Associate Professor Emeritus, English | Wichita State University | Great Plains literature, Dust Bowl, Mari Sandoz |
| Helen Raikes | Professor Emeritus, Child, Youth & Family Studies | UNL | Early care and education |
| Hilda Raz | Professor Emeritus, English; Past Editor Prairie Schooner | UNL | Poetry, nonfiction, memoir |
| Lavona Reeves | Professor, English | Eastern Washington University | Linguistics, composition, rhetoric, English as a second language |
| Ted Regehr | Professor Emeritus, History | University of Saskatchewan | History |
| Hugh Reilly | Professor & Director Emeritus, Communication, Fine Arts & Media | UNO | Advertising, journalism history |
| Karl J. Reinhard | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Forensic scientist, archaeoparasitology |
| John Reinhardt | Dean Emeritus, College of Dentistry | UNMC | Health services, care access, restorative dentistry |
| John Reps | Professor Emeritus, City & Regional Planning | Cornell University | Urban iconography, American cities |
| Guy Reynolds | Professor, English; Chair, Undergraduate Program and Curriculum Committee | UNL | Willa Cather project, American literature |
| 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 |
| Barbara Rippey | Professor Emeritus, English | College of St. Mary, Omaha | English |
| Joy S. Ritchie | Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | Rhetoric and composition, women and gender studies |
| Teliza Rodriguez | Creative Districts Coordinator | Nebraska Arts Council | Arts administration and curation, artwork of the early-era Nebraska women artists and early Nebraska Indigenous peoples |
| Ann Romines | Professor Emeritus, English | George Washington University | Women's writing and culture, feminist theory, 19th Century U.S. writing, American regional writing |
| James Ronda | Professor Emeritus & H.G. Barnard Chair, Western American History | University of Tulsa | American West exploration, Western American History and Literature |
| Kari Ronning | Research Associate Professor Emeritus, English | UNL | Willa Cather's journalism |
| Jacob Rosdail | Associate Professor, Communication | UNK | Digital storytelling and video production |
| Norman Rosenberg | Chief Scientist Emeritus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Joint Global Change Research Institute | Integrated Earth studies, climate, evapotranspiration |
| Steven Rothenberger | Professoe Emeritus, Biology | UNK | Plant ecology, taxonomy |
| C. Patrick Rowan | Professor Emeritus, Art | UNL | Studio art, painting, sculpture |
| M. Eugene Rudd | Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy | UNL | Physics, astronomy |
| Bradley Rundquist | Dean, Dean's Office A&S; Professor, Geography | University of North Dakota | Remote sensing, GIS, prairie ecosystems |
| Leland Russell | Associate Professor, Biological Sciences | Wichita State University | Plant population ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, savanna dynamics and restoration |
| Eva Sartori | Professor Emeritus, Libraries | UNL | Libraries |
| Mila Saskova-Pierce | Associate Professor Emeritus, Modern Languages and Literatures | UNL | Second language learning |
| Julie Savidge | Professor, Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology | Colorado State University | Forestry, fisheries, wildlife zoology and ecology, wildland resources |
| R. McLaran Sawyer | Professor Emeritus, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Education, history, curriculum, instruction |
| Keith Sawyers | Professor Emeritus, Architecture | UNL | Architectural history, Nebraska architecture |
| Walter Schacht | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy and Horticulture | UNL | Grassland ecology, management |
| Mark Scherer | Professor, History | UNO | Legal & constitutional, Native American legal history, Nebraska & Great Plains |
| Edward Schmidt | Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy | UNL | Variable star observation, ultraviolet images |
| JL Schmidt | Retired from Board of Directors | Heritage Nebraska | Journalism, community development, historic preservation, advertising |
| Gordon Scholz | Professor Emeritus; Director, Community & Regional Planning Program | UNL | Planning and design, historic preservation |
| Connie Schomburg | Independent scholar | Fremont, Neb. | English, ethnic literature, journalism, African-American literature |
| Richard Schuessler | Professor, Art and Design | UNK | Visual communications, typography |
| Mildred A. Schwartz | Professor Emeritus, Sociology, Political Science | University of Illinois at Chicago | Political parties and movements, regionalism |
| Sandra Scofield | Director Emeritus, Nebraska Rural Initiative | UNL | Rural, economic and community development, rural policies |
| Douglas D. Scott | Archaeologist, Adjunct Professor Emeritus Anthropology at UNL | Midwest Archaeological Center | Historical archaeology, Plains cultural development |
| James Scott | Herman Brown Chair & Professor, political science | Texas Christian University | International relations, foreign-policy analysis, U.S. foreign policy making, Great Plains interaction with a global world |
| Timothy Seastedt | Professor Emeritus, Ecology and Evolutionary Bio | University of Colorado at Boulder | Terrestrial ecosystems, soil biology, nutrient dynamics, ecosystems, invasive species |
| Donna Shear | Director Emeritus, University of Nebraska Press | UNL | University presses |
| Fred Shelley | Professor Emeritus Geography | University of Oklahoma | Political geography, environmental policy, world economy |
| Susan M. Sheridan | Associate Dean, Research and Creative Activity; George Holmes Prof., Educational Psychology; Director, Neb. Center for Research on Children, Youth, Families | UNL | Parent-teacher behavioral consultation |
| James Sherow | Professor, History | Kansas State University | Environmental history, Konza Prairie, American history |
| Steve Shively | Associate Professor Emeritus, English | Utah State University | Willa Cather, pedagogy of place, religion in nature |
| Robert Shuster | Associate Professor, Geology | UNO | Granites, growth of the North American continental crust |
| Jerold Simmons | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | American constitutional history, film, World War II |
| Patricia Simpson | Professor, Modern Languages & Literatures (German) | UNL | German literature and immigration, language learning |
| Robert Sitting | Professor Emeritus, Political Science | UNL | Political science |
| Dennis J. Smith | Assiniboine (Fort Peck); Associate Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | Northern Plains tribes, Native American history, North American Indian cultures |
| Michael Smith | Emeritus Director | Nebraska State Historical Society | Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists |
| Victoria Smith | Associate Professor Emeritus, History & Ethnic Studies | UNL | Native American history, 19th Century |
| John Snowden | Professor Emeritus, Law | UNL | Legal process, jurisprudence, criminal law |
| Randall Snyder | Professor Emeritus, Music | UNL | Musical arts, composition, comprehensive musicianship |
| Jordan Soliz | Professor, Communication Studies; Leland J. & Dorothy H. Olson Chair, Arts & Sciences | UNL | Intergroup processes in family, personal, and community relationships, multiethnic-racial families |
| Lawrence J Sommer | Historian | Duluth Archaeology Center | Historic preservation, architecture, mining, museum administration |
| Kim Sosin | Professor Emeritus, Economics | UNO | Macroeconomics, monetary economics, growth |
| Robert Spence | Professor Emeritus, Art | UNL | Art |
| Linda Spessard-Schueth | Professor Emeritus, Biology | UNK | Botany bryology-evaluation of moss species of Nebraska counties |
| Tanya Shenk | Research Coordinator, National Park Service | UNL | Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystems Unit, ecology, conservation biology, endangered species, whooping cranes |
| Mary Zeiss Stange | Professor and Director Emeritus, Religious, Women's Studies | Skidmore College | Religion and culture, women and religion, feminist theologies |
| Joseph Starita | Professor Emeritus, Journalism | UNL | Native American history and culture, in-depth reporting |
| Helen Stauffer | Professor Emeritus, English | UNK | English |
| Allen Steuter | Owner | Sandhill and Sun Ranch | Fire ecology, grazing and range science, wildlife, ecosystem structure |
| Matthew Stockton | Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics; West Central Research & Extension Center | UNL | Education and development of sustainable and profitable farm and ranch businesses, risk and decision making |
| Dale Stover | Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies | UNO | Religion, Islam, Native Americans, Lakota |
| James Stubbendieck | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy & Horticulture, Director Emeritus, Center for Great Plains Studies | UNL | Grassland ecology, endangered species, ecosystem restoration |
| Reece Summers | Director, Curator, Emeritus Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery | Southern Utah University | History, museum studies, education, economics |
| Wynne Summers | Associate Professor, English | Southern Utah University | Native American literature and Studies, Ethnic literature, Western American literature |
| Raymond Supalla | Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Economics | UNL | Water policy, environmental and agricultural economics |
| Richard K. Sutton | Professor Emeritus, Agronomy & Horticulture | UNL | Native plant materials, rural landscapes |
| Orlan Svingen | Professor, History | Washington State University | American West, Indian-white relations, modern East Asia, North Cheyenne Indian Reservation |
| Mark Svoboda | Director, National Drought Mitigation Center; Climatologist, Natural Resources | UNL | Water, drought, natural resources, weather, drought early warning |
| Stephen Swidler | Professor, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education | UNL | Cultural learning, rural schools |
| James Swinehart | Professor Emeritus, Conservation & Survey | UNL | Geology, cenozoic geological history of the Great Plains |
| Amy Swoboda | Lawyer | Nebraska | Ecology, water resources law |
| Michael L. Tate | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | American frontier history, Native American History |
| Kenya Taylor | Dean Graduate Studies Emeritus | UNK | Speech-language pathology, communication disorders |
| Robert Thacker | Dana Professor of English and Chair of Canadian Studies | St. Lawrence University | English, Canadian and Western literature, landscape in literature |
| Thomas Thiessen | Archeologist Emeritus | Midwest Archeological Center | Anthropology, geology, Latin, Canton Reservoir |
| Eric Thompson | Karl H. Nelson Associate Professor, Economics; Director, Bureau of Business Research | UNL | Regional economics |
| Harry Thompson | Executive Director Emeritus, Center for Western Studies | Augustana University | New West, poststructuralism/theory, South Dakota, Great Plains authors |
| Tommy Thompson | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | U.S. survey, American colonial, American South |
| Bruce Thorson | Associate Professor Emeritus | UNL | Photojournalism |
| Larry Tieszen | Professor Emeritus, Biology | Augustana College | Prairie restoration, photosynthetic systems, grasslands |
| Stephen Torbit | Assistant Regional Director, Science | Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife | Wildlife ecology, ruminant nutritional physiology |
| Alan Tomkins | Professor Emeritus, Law/Psychology | UNL | Public participation, policymaking |
| Carolyn Torma | Former Director of Education and Citizen Engagement | American Planning Association | Vernacular architecture, historic preservation, education |
| Julia Torquati | Professor, Family and Consumer Science | UNL | Child/development, early childhood education |
| Judith Turk | Assistant Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Soil morphology and genesis |
| Jinny Turman | Associate Professor, History | University of Virginia's College at Wise | Public history, Buffalo County, Kearney history, historic preservation |
| Ron Tyler | Director Emeritus | Amon Carter Museum | Art and art history |
| Andrew Tyre | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Wildlife population, ecology |
| Natalie Umphlett | Regional Climatologist Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Meteorology, climatology |
| Vernon L. Volpe | Professor Emeritus, History | UNK | American history, Civil War |
| Michael Voorhies | Professor Emeritus, Curator Emeritus, Nebraska State Museum | UNL | Geology, vertebrate paleontology, age of mammals |
| Elizabeth VanWormer | Associate Professor of Practice, Natural Resources | UNL | Disease organisms, wildlife habitat, agriculture, nitrates |
| Theresa Wadkins | Professor & Chair, Criminal Justice | UNK | Procrastination, teaching issues, and assessment |
| Matthew Wagner | Director, Freedom to Roam project, Northern Great Plains | World Wildlife Fund | Environmental law, sustainable development law |
| Samuel Walker | Professor Emeritus, Criminal Justice | UNO | History, American culture, police in America |
| Milan Wall | Co-Director | Heartland Center for Leadership Development | Community development |
| Steven S. Waller | Director Emeritus, Grassland Studies Center | UNL | Range management |
| Kay Walter | Professor Emeritus & Co-Director, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities | UNL | 19th century and early 20th century print collections |
| L. James Walter | Assoc. Dean, College of Education; Professor Emeritus, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education | UNL | Curriculum and instruction, school programs, high school instruction |
| Randi Warne | Professor, Religious Studies | Mount Saint Vincent University | Religion, culture, 19th/20th Century North American culture |
| David Watkins | Professor Emeritus, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences | UNL | Micropaleontology, biostratigraphy, marine geology |
| David Wedin | Professor, Natural Resources | UNL | Grassland, savanna ecology, carbon/nitrogen cycling |
| Jeff Wells | Associate Professor, History | Dickinson State University | Gilded Age, Progressive Era, digital history, populism |
| Gwen Westerman | Artist and Professor, English | Minnesota State University in Mankato | Native American literature and art |
| Clinton White | Professor Emeritus | Campion College, University of Regina | Canadian history |
| Lynn White | Professor Emeritus, Sociology | UNL | Social demography, social research, statistics, fertility |
| William Whitney | Former Executive Director | Prairie Plains Research Institute | Prairie restoration, botany, plant ecology, biology, McConaughy Resevoir |
| Hugh Whitt | Professor Emeritus, Sociology | UNL | Deviant behavior, sociology |
| Randy Widdis | Professor Emeritus, Geography | University of Regina | Cultural-historical geography, rural geography, population geography |
| Donald A. Wilhite | Professor Emeritus, Natural Resources | UNL | Drought preparedness, mitigation, policy |
| Andy Wilkinson | Folksinger, writer | Lubbock, Texas | Great Plains people and history, folklore |
| Steve Willborn | Judge Harry A. Spencer Professor of Law | UNL | Employment law, discrimination, legal history, and legal theory |
| Kelly Willemssens | Lecturer, Biological Sciences | Clemson | Ecology, insect physiology, and animal behavior |
| Sandra Williams | Associate Professor, Art | UNL | Mixed media, the animal in art and aesthetics, art and well-being |
| Kim Wilson | Professor, Landscape Architecture; Special Assistant to the Dean | UNL | Design, landscape representation |
| James A. Wilson | Professor, Biology | UNO | Zoology, mammalogy, physiological ecology |
| Kenneth J. Winkle | Sorensen Professor, History | UNL | 19th Century U.S. political, social, cultural, military history |
| Tom Winter | Associate Professor, Classics and Religious Studies | UNL | Philosophy, contemporary and political philosophy, skating, planes |
| David Wishart | Professor Emeritus, Geography | UNL | Human geography, Indigenous Peoples, Great Plains |
| Stephen Witte | Associate Editor | South Dakota State Historical Society Press | Buffalo Bill, Prince Maximilian |
| George Wolf | Associate Professor Emeritus, English, Book Essay Editor GPQ/R | UNL | Melville, American and Canadian literature, Great Plains literature |
| LaReesa Wolfenbarger | Professor & Chair, Biology | UNO | Effects of agriculture on grassland ecosystems |
| Peter H. Wood | Professor Emeritus, History | Duke University | Early American history, Native American history |
| Sharon E. Wood | Professor Emeritus, History | UNO | Women in America, 19th Century U.S. social and cultural history, material culture |
| Carly Woods | Associate Professor, Communication Studies | University of Maryland | Gender and communications, social change, diverse voices |
| Susan Wunder | Associate Professor Emeritus, Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education | UNL | Social sciences education |
| Gary Zaruba | Professor Emeritus, Art & Art History | UNK | Studio art, art education, Nebraska art |
| Ann Ziebarth | Professor Emeritus, Housing Studies | University of Minnesota | Housing in rural places, policy, rural sociology |
| Ed Zimmer | Retired Historic Preservation Planner | Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Dept. | U.S. studies, history research methods, neighborhood history |
| Gary Zoubek | Emeritus Extension Educator, Nebraska Extension | UNL | Irrigated agriculture, water management |