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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)
Bruce Garver, Professor of History (email)
288 ASH, 402-554-4824
European History, WW II, Czech history
Moshe Gershovich, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History (email)
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)
Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Black Studies (email)
184K ASH, 402-554-2018
Urban History, Mixed Race and Biracial Identity, History of Miscegenation/Interracial Marriage
Oliver B. Pollak, Professor of History (email)
287G ASH, 402-554-4821
Biography, American Jewish History, British Empire and Commonwealth, legal history
(Consumer rights, Burma, Southern Africa, historical methodology)
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)
Mark Scherer, Associate Professor (email)
287T ASH, 402-554-2835
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)
Department Chair
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
Jo Behrens, Instructor (email)
287H ASH, 402-554-2584
(Omaha History, World Civilizations, Dual Enrollment Coordinator, web page maintenance)
Judith A. Boughter, Instructor (email)
287Q ASH, 402-554-3172
(Great Plains Indians; Omaha Indians, Pawnee Indians)
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)
Molly Kizer, Instructor (email)
287Q ASH, 402-554-3172
(World Civilizations)
Charles Klinetobe, Instructor
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)
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)
Kim Vorthmann, Instructor
Daniel Weis, Instructor (email)
287I ASH, 402-554-3954
(World Civilizations)
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
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.