Great Plains Affiliate Fellows: Full list

Kevin Abourezk

Indianz.com

Native American issues, higher education, leadership

Adam Ahlers

Kansas State University

Landscape ecologist interested in how landscape change affects wildlife populations

Donna Akers

University of Texas Arlington

Native American history, race, gender, ethnicity, comparative colonialism

Sam Albrecht

Center for Association Leadership

Management

Blake Allmendinger

UCLA

Literature of the American West

Armando Alonzo

Texas A&M

Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish Borderlands history

Eric Anderson

George Mason University

Native American Literature, indigenous studies

Nico Arcilla

International Bird Conservation Partnerhip

Avian ecology, migration, and conservation

Peter Argersinger

Southern Illinois University

Populsim, politics, electoral processes

Bradley Baltensperger

Michigan Tech University

Geography, agriculture, Central Great Plains settlement

Douglas Bamforth

University of Colorado-Boulder

Human use of the Plains, long-term environmental change

Blake Bell

Homestead National Monument

Women, African Americans, immigrants, Civil War

Randy Bertolas

Wayne State

Recreation, tourism and sports; natural disasters; geography education; and utilizing GIS in mapping

Kent Blansett

University of Kansas

Native American, modern U.S., Global Indigenous history

Brian Blouet

William & Mary

Political geography, US settlement

Rob Bozell

Nebraska State Historical Society

Paleoenvironment, culture change

John Braeman

University of Illinois

Early 20th Century history, New Deal era

Richard Breaux

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

African American history, education history, black education

Pamela Brink

Associated Authors & Editors, Inc.

English, Women's Studies, Shakespeare

Charles Brown

University of Tulsa

Social behavior in vertebrates, cliff swallow

Shane Brown

Oklahoma

Cinematography, cultural landscapes, rural Oklahoma

Brian Cannon

Brigham Young University

Intermountain West

Laura Cannon

UNK

U.S.-Mexico borderlands, labor history, and citizenship and civil rights

Gustavo Carlo

University of Missouri

Prosocial and moral development among children and adolescents, Latino families and youth

Francine Carraro

Midwestern State University

Wildlife art, art history, Texas art

Robert Carriker

Gonzaga University

Jesuit missionaries, Lewis and Clark Expedition, Columbia River

James Carroll

Iona College

Native American history, education and pedagogy, transnational studies

David Carter

Chaminade University

Forensic taphonomy, postmortem microbiology, estimating postmortem interval

Elizabeth Chase

Nebraska Main Street Network

Community and regional planning, historic main streets

Brett Chloupek

Northwest Missouri State University

Cultural, political, and historical geography, the geography of religion

Paul Christensen

Texas A&M

20th Century American poetry, Southwestern life and literature, creative writing

Valerie Cisler

University of Wisconsin Stevens Point

Great Plains music, piano

Thomas Clark

Sacramento State University

Urban history, history of crime and poverty

Richmond Clow

University of Montana

Tribal resource management, politics on Montana's Reservations

Margaret Coel

Boulder, Colo.

The West: the mountains, plains, and vast spaces

Allison Hedge Coke

University of Central Oklahoma

Native Americans, poetry, nonfiction, landscape

Kyle Conway

University of Ottawa

Communication, border studies, Social effects of oil exploration

Nancy Cook

University of Montana

Western American studies, literature of place, literature and the environment

Sam Cordes

Purdue University

Agricultural economics, poverty analysis, social issues

Sara Crook

Peru State College

United States Congress and Nebraska Politics

Greg Davis

Kansas State University

Horticulture design applications, landscape plant establishment

Catherine De Almeida

University of Washington

Rural landscapes, Nebraska's brick industry, brownfield remediation

Karie Decker

Nebraska Game & Parks

Research, analysis and inventory for parks, avain research projects

Paul Demers

R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates

Historical archaeology, archaeology of borderlands, frontiers, military sites, emigrant trails

Anne Diffendal

Managment of cultural institutions, management for archivists, political sciences, American history

Joshua Dolezal

Central College

American literature, Willa Cather, sustainability

Betsy Downey

Gonzaga University

Environmental studies, Mari Sandoz, Cold War, Yellowstone

Joseph Dupris

Oregon

Environment, Native Americans

William E Easterling

National Science Foundation

Climate change and agriculture, food supply

Kalenda Eaton

University of Oklahoma

Black American West, African American literature, Women’s Studies, Africana Studies

Walter Echo-Hawk

Oklahoma

Native American history and law, indigenous art and culture, environment

Aris Efting

Bard High School Early College

Aquatic ecology, climate change and water quality, freshwater quality

Mark Eifler

University of Portland

History, North American frontiers, American history, Ethnic Studies, Native American Studies

Lisa Emmerich

California State University

American history, Office of Indian Affairs, California Indians

Margaret Emons

Nebraska Wesleyan

Library, Great Plains history

Mark Engler

Homestead National Monument

Homesteading

Eric L. Ewing

Great Plains Black History Museum

Regional history, education, management, leadership

W Sue Fairbanks

Oklahoma State University

Wildlife Biology, wildlife and grassland interactions, behavioral ecology

William Farr

University of Montana

Blackfoot Indians, Montana History, Native Americans

Elizabeth Fenn

University of Colorado Boulder

Early American West, Native American history

John Fiala

Nebraska Czechs

Czechs, Slovaks

Bernard Flaman

Public Works and Government Services Canada

Architecture of Canada and Saskatchewan

Elizabeth Franklin

University of Northern Colorado

Hispanic Studies, literacy in bilingual classrooms

Glen Fredlund

University of Wisconsin-Mil

Geography, anthropology, geomorphology

Kent Fricke

Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism

Wildlife ecology

Jacob Friefeld

Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism

Public history, nineteenth-century studies, homesteading

Christian Fritz

University of New Mexico

U.S. legal history, Western legal history, California history

Kirsten Furlong

Boise State University

Visual art, intersections of art and ecology

John Gaber

University of Arkansas

Urban planning, community economic development, social planning

Sharon Gaber

University of Arkansas

Philosophy, city, community and regional planning, housing

Judi gaiashkibos

Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs

Nebraska Native Americans

Pamela Gossin

University of Texas-Dallas

History of Science and interdisciplinary Literature and Science studies

H Roger Grant

Clemson University

American railroad, transportation history

Andrew Graybill

Southern Methodist University

North American West history of expansion, borders, race, violence

Sara Gregg

University of Kansas

Agricultural production and environmental change

Brian Gribben

Fort Hays State University

German immigration, Populism, freethought

Ronald Griffin

Florida A&M University

International trade and sales, international law

P Jane Hafen

University of Nevada-Las Vegas

Native American Studies, American literature, American West

Evelyn Harris Haller

Doane College

Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Erza Pound

Pekka Hamalainen

St Catherine's College at University of Oxford

Borderlands, Plains Indian trade, fur trade, Santa Fe Trail

John P. Hankey

Omaha, Neb.

History of technology, American railroading

Karen Hansen

Brandeis University

Contemporary families, historical sociology, and the sociology of gender

Twyla Hansen

Lincoln, Neb.

Poetry, sustainable agriculture, rural land use

James Hanson

Museum of the Fur Trade

American history, trans-Mississippi west, western expansion, plains Indian anthropology

Sharon Harris

University of Connecticut

19th Century U.S. Literature, women and reform movements; feminist literary theory

Ed Harvey

National Park Service

Hydrogeology, hydrology, water resource management and planning, national water policy

Dennis Hastings

Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, Inc.

Genealogical research, Omaha language, religion, music

Cody Havard

University of Memphis

Rivalry, in-group bias, fan and consumer behavior

John Heaston

The Nature Conservancy

Water management, Platte River, anthropology, conservation planning

Robert Hitchcock

Michigan State University

Anthropology, human ecology of populations in arid and semi-arid ecosystems

Johnathan Hladik

Center for Rural Affairs

Farm landscape, environmental policy, clean energy

W. Wyatt Hoback

Oklahoma State University

Entomology, limnology, biology, plants and animals, conservation

Donovan Hofsommer

St. Cloud State University

Transportation history, American West, Minnesota, public history

Michel Hogue

University of Carleton

Metis, the fur trade, and first peoples of the Great Plains

Drake Hokanson

Winona State Unviersity

Great Plains photography, grain elevators, nonfiction writing

Daniel Holtz

Peru State College

Nebraska Literature, preparing secondary English teachers

Teresa Houser

Midland University

Great Plains history

Craig Howe

Center for American Indian Research and Native Studies

Tribal history, museum exhibits

LeAnne Howe

University of Georgia

American Indian Literature, theater

Robert Hower

University of Texas at Arlington

Art, interactive projects, computer graphics

Jim Hoy

Emporia State University

Great Plains folklore, American Indian literature, Australian outback

Philip Hull

University of Central Missouri

Study abroad, exchange students, international programs

Douglas A. Hurt

University of Missouri

Cultural and Historical Geography, Geography Education, North America

R. Douglas Hurt

Purdue University

American agriculture, American West, Midwest history

Andrew Isenberg

Temple University

American West, environmental history, bison, native/settler encounters

Thomas Isern

North Dakota State University

North American plains history, history of agriculture

David Jachowski

Clemson University

Black-footed ferret, Great Plains animals

Wes Jackson

The Land Institute

Natural systems agriculture, botany, plant genetics, biology

Elizabeth Jameson

University of Calgary

Women's history in the American West

Mary Liz Jameson

Wichita State University

Entomology, biodiversity,
conservation, zoology

Matthew Jockers

Washington State University

Irish immigrants, place-based literature, digital humanities

Anthony Joern

Kansas State University

Insect community ecology, insect/ plant interactions, grasslands

Annika Johnson

Joslyn Art Museum

Native American arts and culture, institutional futures

David Johnson

Penn State University

Measurement techniques, structural equation models

Matthew Jones

Lincoln, Neb.

Native American studies, tales, beast fables, creation stories

Brennan Jordan

University of South Dakota

volcanology, geodiversity, tourism

Toby Jurovics

Joslyn Art Museum

19th, 20th Century photography and art of the American West

Yasuhide Kawashima

University of Texas at El Paso

American history, colonial history, history of the Far East

Martha Kennedy

Fairfax, Va.

American cartooning history, caricature, illustration

Todd Kerstetter

Texas Christian University

19th- and 20th-Century Trans-Mississippi West, religion, popular culture (art, music)

Leo Killsback

Montana State University

Indigenous governance, traditional law, sovereignty, treaty rights

Jon Kilpinen

Valparaiso University

American historical geography, Europe, political geography, GIS

Joni Kinsey

University of Iowa

Plains art, surveying of the American West, 18th through 20th Century American art

Amy Koch

Nebraska State Historical Society

Archaeology, Sandhills, paleoecology

Alan Kolok

Idaho Water Resources Research Institute

Water resources, citizen science, water, public health, environmental epidemiology

Ted Kooser

University of Nebraska

Poetry, essays

Nancy Tystad Koupal

SD State Historical Society Press

American literature, South Dakota, Dakota women, children's literature

Lisi Krall

SUNY-Cortland

Ecology, environmental policy, history

Dennis Kuhnel

Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center

Archaeology, Native American literature, environmental law

Rebecca Lacome

Harper Ferrys Center

Biological diversity, natural history of the prairies, Mammoth Cave National Park, folklore

Renee Laegreid

University of Wyoming

Western women's history, American West

Lori Ann Lahlum

Minnesota State University in Mankato

American West, women's and gender history, and Norwegian America

David Landis

City of Lincoln Urban Development

Political science, history, law, public administration

Brent Lathrop

The Nature Conservancy

Community and regional planning, geography

Susan Lawrence

Ohio State University

History of medicine

Jon Lauck

Middle West Review

Farming, settlement, regional studies

Kenneth Leyton-Brown

University of Regina

Canadian legal history, Saskatchewan legal history

Brad Lookingbill

Columbia College Missouri

American military history, American Indian history

John Ludwickson

Nebraska State Historical Society

Prehistory and history of Plains and Midwestern Native Americans, archaeology, 19th Century military

Vicki Braglio Luther

Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Educational leadership, community development

Don Macke

e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems

Economics, economic development, environmental studies

Margaret MacKichan

Sinte Gleska University

Native American art history, photography, painting, drawing, sculpture

Cheyenne Marco

University of South Dakota

Creative Writing and Great Plains Literature

Harvey Markowitz

Washington and Lee University

Relationships among American Indian religions, landscapes, cultures, histories, and identities

Jerome Martin

Spotted Cow Press

Visual arts, music, communications, western Canadian history

Leanne Martin

Iowa State University

Prairie restoration, plant species diversity, seed, ecology

Joseph Mason

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Geomorphology, quarternary geology, hillslope geomorphology

Michael Mayer

University of Montana

American law; Civil Rights movement; post-WWII culture

Arthur McEvoy

Southwestern Law School

Environmental law, water rights, California fisheries

Richard Meile

Indiana University Northwest

Globalization, health, rural, economy

George Melnyk

University of Calgary

Canadian studies, Canadian Plains, protest in Western Canada, peace studies, Canadian cinema

Doris Meredith

Amarillo, Texas

Mystery literature, historical fiction, American West

Amber Mohr

Avoca, Iowa

Great Plains art

Christie Maloyed

University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Political theory

Kurt Mantonya

Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Ethnographic and anthropological research

Wynema Morris

Walthill, Neb.

Omaha Peoples, traditions of song, dance, social and political structures

L.G. Moses

Oklahoma State University

American Indian history, American West, history of anthropology, ethnohistory

Francis (and Maxine) Moul

Lincoln, Neb.

International relations, Nebraska History, U.S. Indian Claims Commission

Keith Mueller

University of Iowa

Rural healthcare policy, Affordable Care Act, American health policy

Alicia Mullarkey

UNO

Nature preserves

David Murphy

Nebraska State Historical Society

History and theory of architecture and place

Robert Murphy

Southwest Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife

Ecology, ornithology, prairie restoration, grassland bird habitat

Elaine Marie Nelson

University of Kansas

North American West, Native American, gender history

David Nesheim

Chadron State College

Great Plains, bison research

George Neubert

Flatwater Folk Art Museum

Modern art history, 20th Century sculpture, museum management, 19th/20th Century American art

Gerald Oetelaar

University of Calgary

Archaeology of eastern woodlands, method and theory, settlement patterns, Northern Plains

Tyra Olstad

State University of New York - Oneonta

Environmental science, monitoring, and history

Suzanne Ortega

University of North Carolina

Social gerontology, social psychology, adult socialization, reference group therapy

Paula Palmer

Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, a program of Friends Peace Teams

Education and advocacy for Indigenous peoples' rights, racial and environmental justice

Tapan Pathak

University of California

Climate variability and climate change science

James Parham

Hawaii Biological Survey, Bishop Museum

Hawaiian streams and habitats, habitat use, streamfishes, fisheries, Platte River

Keith Parker

University of Georgia

Educational aspirations, social and applied demography, social movements, social stratification

Don Perkins

University of Alberta

Canadian drama, Native literatures, and popular culture, Canadian theatre history, trickster stories and literature

Paula Petrik

George Mason University

History of the Trans-Mississippi West, U.S. women's history, U.S. business history

Alisa Plant

Louisiana State University Press

History scholarship and literature

Frank Pommersheim

University of South Dakota

Indian law, federal jurisdiction, rights of indigenous peoples, criminal law, criminal procedure

Debra Ponec

Creighton University

Guidance & counseling curriculum, relationships within school communities, immigrant students

Deborah Popper

CUNY-College of Staten Island

Environmental pressure and population loss, ecological restoration, Buffalo Commons

Frank Popper

Rutgers University

Land-use planning, environmental history, population decline, Buffalo Commons

Charlene Porsild

University of New Mexico

North American West, Canadian Studies, Klondike Gold Rush, gender history

Joseph Porter

North Carolina Museum of History

American history, Western U.S. history and art, Native American history, Plains Indian art

Steve Potts

Hibbing Community College

Humanities, 20th Century U.S., Native America, American frontier, East Asia, anthropology

Cythia Prescott

University of North Dakota

Gender in the American West; material culture; historical memory

Byron Price

University of Oklahoma

Art of the American West

M-L Quinn

Montana State University

Water resources/law, climate change, environmental history

Ronald Ramsay

North Dakota State University

Landscape architecture, architectural history and design, historic preservation

Richard Reading

Denver Zoological Foundation

Grasslands, Great Plains, Mongolia, Kalahari, Altiplano, conservation biology

Lavona Reeves

Eastern Washington University

Linguistics, composition, rhetoric, English as a second language

Akim Reinhardt

Towson University

Native American history, Plains history, and regional political developments

Brenden Rensink

Brigham Young University

North American West, indigenous peoples, transnational borderlands

James Riding In

Arizona State University

Culture, human rights, Indigenous justice, Indian law, policy, racism, social movements

Reginald Robinson

University of Kansas

Torts, constitutional litigation, race discrimination, state constitutional law

Ann Romines

George Washington University

Women's writing and culture, feminist theory, 19th Century U.S. writing, American regional writing

James Ronda

University of Tulsa

American West exploration, Western American History and Literature

Sarah Rowe

Enrolled member of Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Lakota Nation

Mixed media visual arts, community programming, and healing arts collaboration

Bradley Rundquist

University of North Dakota

Remote sensing, GIS, prairie ecosystems

Leland Russell

Wichita State University

plant population ecology, plant-herbivore interactions, savanna dynamics and restoration

Julie Savidge

Colorado State University

Forestry, fisheries, wildlife zoology and ecology, wildland resources

Kate Schneider

Canada

Photographed the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline for the exhibition "We, the Heartland"

Connie Schomburg

Fremont, Neb.

English, ethnic literature, journalism, African-American literature

James Scott

Texas Christian University

International relations, foreign-policy analysis, U.S. foreign policy making, Great Plains interaction with a global world

Timothy Seastedt

University of Colorado at Boulder

Terrestrial ecosystems, soil biology, nutrient dynamics, ecosystems, invasive species

Melynda Seaton

History Colorado

Art of the American West, photography

Douglas Seefeldt

Ball State University

American West, environmental histoyr, public history, digital, 19th and 20th Century U.S.

Fred Shelley

University of Oklahoma

Political geography, environmental policy, world economy

Robert Shepard

University of Iowa

Cartography, GIS, population geography and urban historical geography

Jacob Sherman

University of Texas at San Antonio

Oral history, people, politics

James Sherow

Kansas State University

Environmental history, Konza Prairie, American history

Steve Shively

Utah State University

Willa Cather, pedagogy of place, religion in nature

Janet Smith

Omaha, Neb.

Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists

Michael Smith

Omaha, Neb.

Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists

Shirley Sneve

Vision Maker Media

Native American film

Lawrence J and Barbara Sommer

Duluth Archaeology Center

Historic preservation, architecture, mining, museum administration

Mary Zeiss Stange

Skidmore College

Religion and culture, women and religion, feminist theologies

Allen Steuter

Sandhill and Sun Ranch

Fire ecology, grazing and range science, wildlife, ecosystem structure

Allyson Stevenson

University of Saskatchewan

Métis history, indigenous child welfare history, gender and indigenous women’s political organizing

Kristine Sudbeck

Nebraska Indian Community College

Native American history

Reece Summers

Southern Utah University

History, museum studies, education, economics, 

Wynne Summers

Southern Utah University

Native American literature and Studies, Ethnic literature, Western American literature

Orlan Svingen

Washington State University

American West, Indian-white relations, modern East Asia, North Cheyenne Indian Reservation

Amy Swoboda

Nebraska

Ecology, water resources law

Baligh Ben Taleb

University of Wisconsin-Madison

American Indian & Indigenous history, race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, settler colonialism, decolonization, transitional justice

Otis Templer

Texas Tech University

Water resources management and conservation; arid lands

Robert Thacker

St. Lawrence University

English, Canadian and Western literature, landscape in literature

Harry Thompson

Augustana University

New West, poststructuralism/theory, South Dakota, Great Plains authors

Vetta Sanders Thompson

Washington University, St. Louis

Cultural competence, racial identity, disparities in health and mental health services

Stephen Torbit

Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife

Wildlife ecology, ruminant nutritional physiology

Carolyn Torma

American Planning Association

Vernacular architecture, historic preservation, education

Steven Trout

University of Alabama

Literary modernism, war literature, and American cultural studies

Tracy Tucker

The Willa Cather Foundation

Native Americans in Cather novels, Plains literature, prairie programming

Jinny Turman

University of Virginia's College at Wise

Public history, Buffalo County, Kearney history, historic preservation

Simon Tye

University of Arkansas

Natural history of Great Plains organisms, ecological catastrophes

Edward Valandra

Community for the Advancement of Native Studies

Native and cultural studies, Lakota-Euroamerican relations

Carroll Van West

Middle Tennessee State University

19th/20th Century Southern and Western culture, architecture

Mary Ann Vinton

Creighton University

Plant, ecosystem and grassland ecology, invasive plants

Matthew Wagner

World Wildlife Fund

Environmental law, sustainable development law

Ernie Walker

University of Saskatchewan

Paleopathology; forensic anthropology, human evolutionary studies

Milan Wall

Heartland Center for Leadership Development

Community development

Randi Warne

Mount Saint Vincent University

Religion, culture, 19th/20th Century North American culture

Robert Watrel

South Dakota State University

Human geography, political geography, cartography

Susan Welch

Penn State University

Political science, women in politics, political behavior

Roger Welsch

Dannebrog

English, anthropology, folklore, plains folk and literature, oral literature

Gwen Westerman

Minnesota State University in Mankato

Native American literature and art

William Whitney

Prairie Plains Research Institute

Prairie restoration, botany, plant ecology, biology, McConaughy Resevoir

Andy Wilkinson

Lubbock, Texas

Great Plains people and history, folklore

Cory Willard

Mount Royal University

Ecocriticism, Place Studies, Literature of the West

Richard Williams

Leader People of the Sacred Land

Federal Indian Policies, Treaties, American Indian History (Plains specific)

Rebecca Wingo

University of Cincinnati

Indigenous history, homesteading, housing, digital history

Stephen Witte

South Dakota State Historical Society Press

Buffalo Bill, Prince Maximilian

Carly Woods

University of Maryland

Gender and communications, social change, diverse voices

Kay Young

Lincoln, Neb.

Folk and intercultural studies, ethnobotany

Ann Ziebarth

University of Minnesota

Housing in rural places, policy, rural sociology

Ed Zimmer

Lincoln/Lancaster County Planning Dept.

U.S. studies, history research methods, neighborhood history