Affiliate Fellows of the Center include those who have a professional interest in the Great Plains and the purposes and program of the Center and are not presently holding regular appointments at the University of Nebraska.
They include more than 200 professionals from 122 institutions in the U.S., the United Kingdom, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Nova Scotia.
| Name | Title | Institution | Specialty |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kevin Abourezk | Journalist, Managing Editor, Rosebud Sioux | Indianz.com | Native American issues, higher education, leadership |
| Adam Ahlers | Associate Professor | Kansas State University | Landscape ecologist interested in how landscape change affects wildlife populations |
| Donna Akers | Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies | University of Texas Arlington | Native American history, race, gender, ethnicity, comparative colonialism |
| Sam Albrecht | Executive Director | Center for Association Leadership | Management |
| Blake Allmendinger | Professor, English | UCLA | Literature of the American West |
| Armando Alonzo | Associate Professor, History | Texas A&M | Mexican American, Texas, and Spanish Borderlands history |
| Eric Anderson | Associate Professor, English | George Mason University | Native American Literature, Indigenous studies |
| Nico Arcilla | President & Research Director | International Bird Conservation Partnership | Avian ecology, migration, and conservation |
| Douglas Bamforth | Professor, Anthropology | University of Colorado-Boulder | Human use of the Plains, long-term environmental change |
| Blake Bell | Historian | Homestead National Monument | Great Plains women, African Americans, immigrants, Civil War |
| Randy Bertolas | Professor, Geography; Chair, History, Politics, and Geography | Wayne State | Recreation, tourism and sports, natural disasters, geography education, utilizing GIS in mapping |
| Matthew Bice | Dean, School of Professional & Graduate Studies | Baker University | Higher education management, public health education, health interventionist |
| Kent Blansett | Langston Hughes Associate Professor, Indigenous Studies and History | University of Kansas | Native American, modern U.S., Global Indigenous history |
| Brian Blouet | Huby Professor, Geography & International Education | William & Mary | Political geography, U.S. settlement |
| Richard Breaux | Associate Professor, Race/Gender/Sexuality Studies | University of Wisconsin-La Crosse | African American history, education history, black education |
| Pamela Brink | President | Associated Authors & Editors, Inc. | English, Women's Studies, Shakespeare |
| Mark Brohman | Executive Director | Wachiska Audubon | Working with tall-grass prairies, wildlife conservation, environmental issues, and Indigenous peoples |
| Charles Brown | Professor, Biological Sciences | University of Tulsa | Social behavior in vertebrates, cliff swallow |
| Shane Brown | Photographer | Oklahoma | Cinematography, cultural landscapes, rural Oklahoma |
| Amy Burgin | Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Kansas | Microbial ecology, aquatic ecosystems |
| Brian Cannon | Professor & Department Chair, History | Brigham Young University | Agricultural settlement, rural community development, and federal rural policy in the 20th Century |
| Laura Cannon | Assistant Professor, History | University of the Incarnate Word | U.S.-Mexico borderlands, labor history, and citizenship and civil rights |
| Gustavo Carlo | Millsap Professor of Diversity, Multicultural Studies | University of Missouri | Prosocial and moral development among children and adolescents, Latino families and youth |
| James Carroll | Professor, History | Iona College | Native American history, education and pedagogy, transnational studies |
| 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 |
| Brett Chloupek | Associate Professor, Geography | Northwest Missouri State University | Cultural, political, and historical geography, the geography of religion |
| 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 |
| Brandon Cobb | Indigenous Conservation Specialist | The Nature Conservancy in Nebraska | Land stewardship, cultural fire, climate change, grazing management |
| Margaret Coel | Writer, Guest Lecturer | Boulder, Colo. | The West: the mountains, plains, and vast spaces |
| Allison Hedge Coke | Distinguished Professor, Creative Writing | University of California, Riverside | Native Americans, poetry, nonfiction, landscape |
| Kyle Conway | Associate Professor | University of Ottawa | Communication, border studies, Social effects of oil exploration |
| Sara Crook | Professor, History and Political Science | Peru State College | United States Congress and Nebraska Politics |
| Greg Davis | Associate Professor, Landscape Design | Kansas State University | Horticulture design applications, landscape plant establishment |
| Catherine De Almeida | Assistant Professor, Landscape Architecture | University of Washington | Rural landscapes, Nebraska's brick industry, brownfield remediation |
| Karie Decker | Acting Wildlife Division Administrator | Nebraska Game & Parks Commission | Research, analysis and inventory for parks, avian research projects |
| Paul Demers | Project Manager | R. Christopher Goodwin & Associates | Historical archaeology, archaeology of borderlands, frontiers, military sites, emigrant trails |
| Cory DeRoin | Coordinator | Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project | Environmental knowledge, food sovereignty, Otoe-Missouria relations |
| Anne Diffendal | Consulting Archivist/Historian | Independent historian | Managment of cultural institutions, management for archivists, political sciences, American history |
| Joshua Doležal | Professor, English | Central College | American literature, Willa Cather, sustainability |
| Joseph Dupris | Attorney | Oregon | Environment, Native Americans |
| William E. Easterling | Assistant Director for the Directorate for Geosciences | National Science Foundation | Climate change and agriculture, food supply |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Margaret Emons | University Librarian | Nebraska Wesleyan | Library, Great Plains history |
| Eric L. Ewing | Executive Director; Adjunct Professor, Bellevue University | Great Plains Black History Museum | Regional history, education, management, leadership |
| Sue Fairbanks | Associate Professor, Natural Resource Ecology and Management | Oklahoma State University | Wildlife Biology, wildlife and grassland interactions, behavioral ecology |
| Elizabeth Fenn | Professor, History | University of Colorado Boulder | Early American West, Native American history, epidemic disease |
| Bernard Flaman | Conservation Architect | Public Works and Government Services Canada | Architecture of Canada and Saskatchewan |
| Kent Fricke | Small Game Coordinator | Kansas Dept. of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism | Wildlife ecology |
| Jacob Friefeld | Director | Center for Lincoln Studies at the University of Illinois Springfield | Public history, nineteenth-century studies, homesteading |
| Kirsten Furlong | Lecturer and Director of the Blue Galleries, Department of Art, Design, and Visual Studies | Boise State University | Visual art, intersections of art and ecology |
| John Gaber | Department Chair, City Planning and Real Estate Development | Clemson University | Urban planning, community economic development, social planning |
| 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 |
| John Gates | Senior Vice President and Global Head of Product | CropX | Chemical/physical hydrogeology, aqueous geochemistry |
| Christina Faw Faw Goodson | Co-director | Walking in the Footsteps of Our Ancestors project | Cultural linguistics, language revitalization, history |
| Pamela Gossin | Professor, Literature and History | University of Texas-Dallas | History of science, interdisciplinary literature and science studies |
| H. Roger Grant | Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor, History | Clemson University | American railroad, transportation history |
| Andrew Graybill | Professor, History; Director, Clements Center for Southwest Studies | Southern Methodist University | North American West history of expansion, borders, race, violence |
| Sara Gregg | Associate Professor, History | Indiana University-Bloomington | Agricultural production and environmental change |
| Brian Gribben | Coordinator, Government Documents and Special Collections – Forsyth Library | Fort Hays State University | German immigration, Populism, freethought |
| Ronald Griffin | Professor, Law | Florida A&M University | International trade and sales, international law |
| Evelyn Harris Haller | Professor, English; Chair, Fine Arts/Humanities | Doane College | Willa Cather, Virginia Woolf, Ezra Pound |
| Pekka Hämäläinen | Rhodes Professor of American History | St. Catherine's College at University of Oxford | Borderlands, Plains Indian trade, fur trade, Santa Fe Trail |
| John P. Hankey | Historian and Cultural Resource Consultant | Omaha, Neb. | History of technology, American railroading |
| Karen Hansen | Victor and Gwendolyn Beinfield Professor of Sociology | Brandeis University | Contemporary families, historical sociology, and the sociology of gender |
| 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 |
| Ed Harvey | Supervisory Hydrologist and Chief, NPS Water Resources Division | National Park Service | Hydrogeology, hydrology, water resource management and planning, national water policy |
| Dennis Hastings | Founder, Director | Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project, Inc. | Genealogical research, Omaha language, religion, music |
| Cody Havard | Professor, Sports and Leisure Commerce | University of Memphis | Rivalry, in-group bias, fan and consumer behavior |
| John Heaston | Consultant | Heaston Consulting | Water management, Platte River, anthropology, conservation planning |
| 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 |
| Robert Hitchcock | Professor, Geography | Michigan State Unviersity | Anthropology, human ecology of populations in arid and semi-arid ecosystems |
| Johnathan Hladik | Policy Director | Center for Rural Affairs | Farm landscape, environmental policy, clean energy |
| Wyatt Hoback | Professor, Entomology and Plant Pathology | Oklahoma State University | Entomology, limnology, biology, plants and animals, conservation |
| Michel Hogue | Associate Professor, History | University of Carleton | Metis, the fur trade, and first peoples of the Great Plains |
| Teresa Houser | Founder and CEO | Magdalene Omaha | Great Plains history, sex trafficking and recovery programs |
| 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 |
| Philip Hull | Director, Graduate & International Student Services | University of Central Missouri | Study abroad, exchange students, international programs |
| Douglas A. Hurt | Assistant Teaching Professor, Geography; Director of Undergraduate Studies | University of Missouri | Cultural and historical geography, geography education, North America |
| R. Douglas Hurt | Professor & Department Head, History | Purdue University | American agriculture, American West, Midwest history |
| 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 |
| David Jachowski | Associate Professor, Wildlife Ecology | Clemson University | Black-footed ferret, Great Plains animals |
| Mary Liz Jameson | Associate Professor, Biology | Wichita State University | Entomology, biodiversity, conservation, zoology |
| Christian Janousek | Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations | Creighton University | Political culture and institutions, governance, state and local government, public policy |
| Matthew Jockers | Senior Research Science Manager | Apple | Irish immigrants, place-based literature, digital humanities |
| Annika Johnson | Associate Curator of Native American Art | Joslyn Art Museum | Native American arts and culture, institutional futures |
| David Johnson | Professor, Sociology | Penn State University | Measurement techniques, structural equation models |
| Jeffrey A. Johnson | Professor, History | Providence College | Radical labor, politics, and reform in the late 19th and early 20th century American West |
| Matthew Jones | Native historian | Lincoln, Neb. | Native American studies, tales, beast fables, creation stories |
| 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 |
| Yasuhide Kawashima | Professor, History | University of Texas at El Paso | American history, colonial history, history of the Far East |
| Martha Kennedy | Independent historian | Fairfax, Va. | American cartooning history, caricature, illustration |
| 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 |
| Jon Kilpinen | Dean, College of Arts & Sciences; Professor, Geography | Valparaiso University | American historical geography, Europe, political geography, GIS |
| 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 |
| Joni Kinsey | Professor, Art & Art History | University of Iowa | Plains art, surveying of the American West, 18th through 20th Century American art |
| Ryan Klataske | Founder & Principal; Adjunct Assistant Professor | Applied Ethnographic Services; University of Nebraska Medical Center | Anthropology, ethnography, agriculture, work, environment, health, and rural life |
| Amy Koch | Highway Archeologist | Nebraska State Historical Society | Archaeology, Sandhills, paleoecology |
| Alan Kolok | Professor and Director | Idaho Water Resources Research Institute | Water resources, citizen science, water, public health, environmental epidemiology |
| 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 |
| Dennis Kuhnel | Director | Hudson-Meng Bison Kill Research & Visitor Center | Archaeology, Native American literature, environmental law |
| Gina Kunz | Project Co-Director, Carolina Family Engagement Center | University of South Carolina | Licensed psychologist, children, youth, family, and school studies |
| Rebecca Lacome | Steven Mather Training Department | Harper Ferrys Center | Biological diversity, natural history of the prairies, Mammoth Cave National Park, folklore |
| Renee Laegreid | Professor, History | University of Wyoming | Western women's history, American West |
| Lori Ann Lahlum | Professor and Graduate Coordinator, History | Minnesota State University-Mankato | American West, women's and gender history, and Norwegian America |
| Autumn Langemeier | Historical Marker Equity Program Coordinator | History Nebraska | Local and state commemorative efforts, rural women’s history, material culture, and historically underrepresented communities |
| Susan Lawrence | Professor and Department Head, History | University of Tennessee-Knoxville | History of medicine |
| Jon Lauck | Editor-in-Chief, Middle West Review; Adjunct Professor, History & Political Science | University of South Dakota | Farming, settlement, regional studies |
| 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 |
| John Ludwickson | Highway Archeologist | Nebraska State Historical Society | Prehistory and history of Plains and Midwestern Native Americans, archaeology, 19th Century military |
| Vicki Braglio Luther | Founding Co-Director | Heartland Center for Leadership Development | Educational leadership, community development |
| Don Macke | Senior Vice President e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems | E2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems | Economics, economic development, environmental studies |
| Cheyenne Marco | Lecturer, English | University of South Dakota | Creative writing, Great Plains literature |
| 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 |
| Doris Meredith | Writer, Public Lecturer | Amarillo, Texas | Mystery literature, historical fiction, American West |
| Amber Mohr | Former curator, Great Plains Art Museum | Avoca, Iowa | Great Plains art |
| Christie Maloyed | Associate Professor, Political Science | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | Political theory |
| Kurt Mantonya | Consulting Associate | Heartland Center for Leadership Development | Ethnographic and anthropological research |
| Ricardo Martinez | Assistant Professor, Education | Penn State | Critical youth mathematics studies, participatory action research |
| Richard Mocarski | Associate Vice President for Research, Office of Research | San José State University | Health disparities, community-based participatory research, stigma |
| Wynema Morris | Adjunct Professor, Native American Studies, Omaha Tribe | Nebraska Indian Community College | Omaha Peoples, traditions of song, dance, social and political structures |
| Francis (and Maxine) Moul | Reviewer, Author, Publisher | Lincoln, Neb. | International relations, Nebraska History, U.S. Indian Claims Commission |
| Keith Mueller | Gerhard Hartman Professor & Department Head, Health Management and Policy; Director, RUPRI | University of Iowa | Rural healthcare policy, Affordable Care Act, American health policy |
| Alicia Mullarkey | Director and Education Coordinator | Driftless Area Wetlands Centre | Nature preserves |
| David Murphy | Senior Research Architect | Nebraska State Historical Society | History and theory of architecture and place |
| Robert Murphy | Wildlife Biologist | Eagle Environmental, Inc. | Ecology, ornithology, prairie restoration, grassland bird habitat |
| Elaine Marie Nelson | Assistant Professor, History; Executive Director, Western History Association | University of Kansas | North American West, Native American, gender history |
| 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 |
| Gerald Oetelaar | Professor, Archaeology | University of Calgary | Archaeology of eastern woodlands, method and theory, settlement patterns, Northern Plains |
| 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 |
| Bianca Ott Andrade | Post-Doctoral Fellow, Botany | Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul | Grassland ecology and management |
| Paula Palmer | Co-Director | Toward Right Relationship with Native Peoples, Friends Peace Teams | Education and advocacy for Indigenous peoples' rights, racial and environmental justice |
| Tapan Pathak | Specialist in Climate Adaptation in Agriculture | University of California, Merced | Climate variability, climate change science |
| James Parham | Aquatic Biologist & Hydrologist; Director of Research & Development | Trutta Environmental Solutions | Hawaiian streams and habitats, habitat use, streamfishes, fisheries, Platte River |
| Keith Parker | Professor, Sociology | University of Georgia | Educational aspirations, social and applied demography, social movements, social stratification |
| Don Perkins | Lecturer, English | University of Alberta | Canadian drama, Native literatures, and popular culture, Canadian theatre history, trickster stories and literature |
| Daniel Piatkowski | Associate Professor, Integrated Land Use & Transportation Planning | Oslo Metropolitan University | Transportation and health in rural and urban areas, sustainability, bicycling, walking, travel behavior |
| Alisa Plant | Director | Louisiana State University Press | History scholarship and literature |
| Debra Ponec | Professor, Education | Creighton University | Guidance & counseling curriculum, relationships within school communities, immigrant students |
| 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 |
| Steve Potts | Instructor, History and Political Science | Minnesota North College-Hibbing | Humanities, 20th Century U.S., Native America, American frontier, East Asia, anthropology |
| Cynthia Prescott | Professor and Department Chair, History and American Indian Studies | University of North Dakota | Gender in the American West, material culture, historical memory |
| 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 |
| M-L Quinn | Research Affiliated Faculty, History & Philosophy | Montana State University | Water resources/law, climate change, environmental history |
| Ronald Ramsay | Associate Professor, Architecture | North Dakota State University | Landscape architecture, architectural history and design, historic preservation |
| Richard Reading | Vice President, Science and Conservation; Adjunct Professor, Biology at University of Denver | Butterfly Pavilion | Grasslands, Great Plains, Mongolia, Kalahari, Altiplano, conservation biology |
| Lavona Reeves | Professor, English | Eastern Washington University | Linguistics, composition, rhetoric, English as a second language |
| Akim Reinhardt | Professor, History | Towson University | Native American history, Plains history, and regional political developments |
| Brenden Rensink | Associate Professor, History; Associate Director, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies | Brigham Young University | North American West, Indigenous peoples, transnational borderlands |
| 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 |
| Sarah Rowe | Visual and performance artist | Enrolled member of Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, Lakota Nation | Mixed media visual arts, community programming, and healing arts collaboration |
| 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 |
| Julie Savidge | Professor, Fish, Wildlife and Conservation Biology | Colorado State University | Forestry, fisheries, wildlife zoology and ecology, wildland resources |
| Kate Schneider | Artist | Canada | Photographed the proposed route of the Keystone XL pipeline for the exhibition "We, the Heartland" |
| Connie Schomburg | Independent scholar | Fremont, Neb. | English, ethnic literature, journalism, African-American literature |
| 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 |
| Melynda Seaton | Curator of Photography | History Colorado | Art of the American West, photography |
| Douglas Seefeldt | Associate Professor, History | Clemson University | American West, environmental history, public history, digital, 19th and 20th Century U.S. |
| Jacob Sherman | Reference Librarian | University of Texas at San Antonio | Oral history, people, politics |
| James Sherow | Professor, History | Kansas State University | Environmental history, Konza Prairie, American history |
| Janet Smith | Art Consultant | Omaha, Neb. | Art appraisal, art history, 19th to 20th Century women artists |
| Shirley Sneve | Executive Director of Native American Public Telecommunications | Americans for the Arts | Native American film |
| Lawrence J and Barbara Sommer | Historian | Duluth Archaeology Center | Historic preservation, architecture, mining, museum administration |
| Allen Steuter | Owner | Sandhill and Sun Ranch | Fire ecology, grazing and range science, wildlife, ecosystem structure |
| 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 |
| Jason St. Sauver | Sr. Manager, Education | Spring Creek Prairie Audubon Center | Environmental education for all ages and abilities focusing on birds, habitat, and connections to communities and equity and inclusion |
| Kristine Sudbeck | Academic Dean | Nebraska Indian Community College | Native American history |
| Wynne Summers | Associate Professor, English | Southern Utah University | Native American literature and Studies, Ethnic literature, Western American literature |
| Orlan Svingen | Professor, History | Washington State University | American West, Indian-white relations, modern East Asia, North Cheyenne Indian Reservation |
| Amy Swoboda | Lawyer | Nebraska | Ecology, water resources law |
| Baligh Ben Taleb | ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity, Institute for Research in the Humanities | University of Wisconsin-Madison | American Indian & Indigenous history, race, ethnicity, and Indigeneity, settler colonialism, decolonization, transitional justice |
| Robert Thacker | Dana Professor of English and Chair of Canadian Studies | St. Lawrence University | English, Canadian and Western literature, landscape in literature |
| Harry Thompson | Executive Director, Center for Western Studies | Augustana University | New West, poststructuralism/theory, South Dakota, Great Plains authors |
| Vetta Sanders Thompson | Professor, Social Work | Washington University, St. Louis | Cultural competence, racial identity, disparities in health and mental health services |
| Stephen Torbit | Assistant Regional Director, Science | Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife | Wildlife ecology, ruminant nutritional physiology |
| Steven Trout | Professor, English | University of Alabama | Literary modernism, war literature, and American cultural studies |
| Tracy Sanford Tucker | Director of Collections & Curation | The Willa Cather Foundation | Native Americans in Cather novels, Plains literature, prairie programming |
| Jinny Turman | Associate Professor, History | University of Virginia's College at Wise | Public history, Buffalo County, Kearney history, historic preservation |
| Simon Tye | Biology | University of Arkansas | Natural history of Great Plains organisms, ecological catastrophes |
| Edward Valandra | Founder | Community for the Advancement of Native Studies | Native and cultural studies, Lakota-Euroamerican relations |
| Carroll Van West | Director, Center for Historic Preservation | Middle Tennessee State University | 19th/20th Century Southern and Western culture, architecture |
| Mary Ann Vinton | Associate Professor, Biology | Creighton University | Plant, ecosystem and grassland ecology, invasive plants |
| Matthew Wagner | Director, Freedom to Roam project, Northern Great Plains | World Wildlife Fund | Environmental law, sustainable development law |
| Ernie Walker | Professor, Archaeology & Anthropology | University of Saskatchewan | Paleopathology; forensic anthropology, human evolutionary studies |
| Milan Wall | Co-Director | Heartland Center for Leadership Development | Community development |
| Randi Warne | Professor, Religious Studies | Mount Saint Vincent University | Religion, culture, 19th/20th Century North American culture |
| Robert Watrel | Associate Professor, Department Head, Geography | South Dakota State University | Human geography, political geography, cartography |
| 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 |
| Andy Wilkinson | Folksinger, writer | Lubbock, Texas | Great Plains people and history, folklore |
| Cory Willard | Writing and Learning Strategist, Student Learning Services | Mount Royal University | Ecocriticism, Place Studies, Literature of the West |
| Richard Williams | Oglala Lakota/Cheyenne | Leader People of the Sacred Land | Federal Indian Policies, Treaties, American Indian History (Plains specific) |
| Rebecca Wingo | Director of Public History, Assistant Professor | University of Cincinnati | Indigenous history, homesteading, housing, digital history |
| Stephen Witte | Associate Editor | South Dakota State Historical Society Press | Buffalo Bill, Prince Maximilian |
| Carly Woods | Associate Professor, Communication Studies | University of Maryland | Gender and communications, social change, diverse voices |