SKIP navigation
History Department
History Department

Full-Time Faculty & Staff

Maria Arbelaez, Associate Professor (email)
287L ASH, 402-554-2593
Modern Mexico, Borderlands, Latino/Chicano Studies
(Mexican Americans in the Midwest)

Danielle Battisti, Assistant Professor (email)
287G ASH, 402-554-4821
(20th Century American History; Immigration and Ethnic History)

Waitman W. Beorn, Assistant Professor(email)
Louis and Frances Blumkin Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
287L ASH, 402-554-2604
History of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany, Modern European History, Comparative Genocide

Bruce Garver, Professor of History (email)
288 ASH, 402-554-4824
EuropeModern European history, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, World Wars I and II, Czech & Slovak history, Italian history, transport history

Moshe Gershovich, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History (email)
Director of the Middle East Project Fund
Director, Natan and Hannah Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies
287E ASH, 402-554-3175
Modern Middle East and North Africa, Modern European History, Modern Jewish History
(French Military Colonialism in Morocco, Contemporary Moroccan History & Politics, Israel and Palestine, Middle East Historiography, Islam and the West, US and the Middle East, the Holocaust)

John A. Grigg, Associate Professor (email)
Graduate Program Chair
287F ASH, prefers e-mail
Colonial America, religion in colonial America, colonial-Indian religious interaction

Charles W. King, Associate Professor(email)
287D ASH, 402-554-4825
Ancient Rome, Late Antiquity, Classical Historiography
(Roman Religion, Roman Social History, Migration Period "Barbarians," especially the Huns)

Jeanne Reames, Associate Professor (email)
Missouri Valley History Conference Co-ordinator
287K ASH, 402-554-2489
Ancient Greece and Macedonia, Alexander the Great, History of the Early Church
(Power politics at the court of Alexander the Great, Macedonian social history)

Martina Saltamacchia, Assistant Professor (email)
287J ASH, 402-554-4826
(Medieval History)

Mark Scherer, Associate Professor (email) (prefers e-mail)
Department Chair
287W ASH, 402-554-4823
Nebraska and Great Plains Legal & political history
(Native American Legal History, American Revolutionary History)

Dennis J. Smith, Associate Professor (email)
287C ASH, 402-554-3688
Northern Plains Tribes, Native American History, North American Indian Cultures
(Ft. Peck Reservation Assiniboine and Sioux history; federal Indian policy)

Michael L. Tate, Professor of History & Native American Studies (email)
287U ASH, 402-554-2594
American Frontier History, Native American History
(Native American History, 19th-Century American West)

Sharon E. Wood, Professor of History (email)
287P ASH, prefers email
History of Women in America, Nineteenth Century U.S. Social and Cultural History, History of Sexuality
(Gender and Slavery in the Mississippi Valley)

Jo Headrick, Head Secretary (email)
287 ASH, 402-554-2593

Part-Time & Adjunct Faculty

Anthony Aftonomos, Instructor (email)
288B ASH, 402-554-3176
(Byzantine History; History of Human Sexuality)

Jo Behrens, Instructor (email)
287H ASH, 402-554-2584
(Omaha History, World Civilizations, Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska Archivist, History Dual Enrollment Coordinator, History Web Page Maintenance)

Gail DiDonato, Instructor (email)
287O ASH, 402-554-3173
(Urban History;Women in the West; American History)

Patrick Kennedy, Instructor (email)
287I ASH, 402-554-3954
(American History; World Civilizations)

Kimberly King, Instructor (email)
287T ASH, 402-554-2835
(Roman Art, Architecture, and Gardens; New Kingdom Egypt)

Charles Klinetobe, Instructor, (e-mail)
287H ASH, 402-554-2584
(American History; Race, Class, and Gender in American Society and Sport)

Molly Loesche, Instructor (email)
287T ASH, 402-554-2835
(Irish History, Women's History)

Mary Lyons-Carmona, Instructor (e-mail)
287O ASH, 402-614-2692
20th-Century American History
(Commercialized Agricultural & Migrant Labor History, Child Labor History)

Fred Nielsen, Instructor (email)
287Q ASH, 402-554-3172
19th and 20th Century US History
(American Cultural and Intellectual history, environmental history)

William Painter, (email)
287I ASH, 402-554-3954

Anthony Pasley, Instructor (email)
287Q ASH, 402-554-3172
(World Civilizations)

John Schleicher, Instructor (email)
288B, ASH, 402-559-7094
(World Civilizations)

Sonya Stejskal, Instructor (email)
287H ASH, 402-554-2584
(World Civilizations)

Daniel Weis, Instructor (email)
287I ASH, 402-554-3954
(Renaissance [Machiavelli], History of Revolutions)

In Memoriam

June L. Mecham, Assistant Professor
Medieval History, women's history
(monasticism & spirituality, especially German convents; late Middle Ages)

Emeritus Faculty

JoAnn Carrigan, Professor Emerita

Harl Dalstrom, Professor Emeritus

Lorraine M. Gesick, Professor Emerita

Marian Nelson, Professor Emerita

Richard Overfield, Professor Emeritus

William Petrowski, Professor Emeritus

Oliver B. Pollak, Professor Emeritus

William C. Pratt, Professor Emeritus

Jacqueline St John, Professor Emerita

Jerold Simmons, Professor Emeritus

Tommy Thompson, Professor Emeritus

Clio, one of the nine Greek muses, was later referred to as the Muse of History. A daughter of Zeus, Clio was highly regarded for her brilliant poetry and heroic acts. Her image usually includes a parchment scroll (an ancient source of record), a set of tablets (another ancient source of records), books, and/or a clarion (or trumpet). In her hair, she wears a laurel wreath. The image of Clio on this web page was taken from a 1689 painting by Pierre Mignard entitled, Clio.