DEPARTMENT
OF HISTORY
Jeanne Reames
Associate Professor (email)
Website maintainer
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, Greek gender studies)
Dr. Reames somehow managed to acquire three different degrees in three different subjects, but finally settled down to pursue ancient history after being lured in by the age-old fascination of Alexander the Great. She received her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998, where she studied Macedonian history under Eugene N. Borza. She is interested not only in Alexander's history, but in how his image has been appropriated, reinterpreted, and fictionalized throughout history, and collects pop-culture paraphernalia, as well as [almost] every Alexander novel published in English. Related to this, she maintains Beyond Renault: Alexander the Great in Fiction, a literary review site. One of her 'other' degrees was a B.A. from the University of Florida in English/Creative Writing. She's acted as both reader and historical consultant for fiction authors such as Kate Elliott and Judith Tarr, and has reviewed Alexander in film and fiction for the APA's Amphora. She's published articles and chapters on Alexander in The Ancient History Bulletin, Syllecta Classica, The Ancient World, Responses to Alexander (Robin Lane Fox and Fiona Greenland, eds.) and Alexander's Empire: From Formulation to Decay (Waldemar Heckel and P.V. Weatley, eds.) Her current project is co-editing a collection that will be forthcoming from Regina Books, Looking in From the North: papers on Macedonia in honor of Eugene N. Borza.
Outside academia, Reames writes fiction, reads, cooks, and enjoys getting her hands in the dirt (gardening). She also attempts to ride herd on her son and way too many pets. She's a part-blood Miami-Peoria Indian and a member of UNO's Native American Studies faculty, mostly as support personnel and living proof that one's interests are not genetic.
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personal website
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Frequently Taught Courses
· Ancient Greek History (HIST 2510)
· Alexander the Great and the Macedonian Origin
· Ancient Persia and Mesopotamia
· Rome and the Early Church
· Graduate seminars on Greek military history and Greek gender studies.
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