DEPARTMENT
OF HISTORY
Full-Time Faculty & Staff
Maria Arbelaez, Associate Professor (email)
Missouri Valley History Conference Coordinator
287L ASH, 402-554-2593
Modern Mexico, Borderlands, Latino/Chicano Studies
(Mexican Americans in the Midwest)
Bruce Garver, Professor of History (email)
Department Chair
288 ASH, 402-554-4824
European History, WW II, Czech history
Moshe Gershovich, Associate Professor (email)
287E ASH, 402-554-3175
Modern European History, Modern Middle East and North Africa, Modern Jewish History
(French Military Colonialism in Morocco, Contemporary Moroccan History & Politics, Arab-Israeli Conflict)
Lorraine M. Gesick, Associate Professor (email)
History Honor Society Advisor (Phi Alpha Theta)
287F ASH, 402-554-2577
Southeast Asian History, Modern China, Modern Japan
(19th-20th Century Thai cultural history)
John A. Grigg, Assistant Professor (email)
287F ASH, 402-554-2953
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)
June L. Mecham, Assistant Professor (email) [TEMPORARY LEAVE]
287J ASH, 402-554-4826
Medieval History, women's history
(monasticism & spirituality (esp. German convents), late Middle Ages)
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)
William C. Pratt, Professor of History (email)
287R ASH, 402-554-4827
Northern Great Plains, U.S. farm and labor movements, 20th-Century U.S. social and intellectual history
(Farm and political movements on the Northern Plains)
Christian Raffensperger, Visiting Assistant Professor (email)
187J ASH, 402-554-4826
Medieval History, Russian History
(Kievan Rus’, dynastic marriage, and medieval foreign relations)
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)
Mark Scherer, Associate Professor (email)
Winchell Lecture Series Coordinator
287T ASH, 402-554-2835
Nebraska and Great Plains Legal & political history
(Native American Legal History, American Revolutionary History)
Jerold Simmons, Professor of History (email)
287W ASH, 402-554-4823
American Constitutional History, 20th-Century America, Local History
(History of Film Censorship, McCarthyism)
Dennis J. Smith, Assistant 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)
Chair of Graduate Studies
287U ASH, 402-554-2594
American Frontier History, Native American History
(Native American History, 19th-Century American West)
Sharon E. Wood, Associate Professor (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
Jo Behrens, Lecturer (email)
287O ASH, 402-554-3173
Judith A. Boughter, Lecturer (email)
287Q ASH, 402-554-3172
History of the Great Plains Indians
(Omaha Indians, Pawnee Indians)
Gail DiDonato, Lecturer (email)
287O ASH, 402-554-3173
Alan R. Koenig, Lecturer (email)
Distance-Education
Military history
Mary Lyons-Barrett, Lecturer (email)
287O ASH, 402-573-1947
20th-Century American History
(Commercialized Agricultural & Migrant Labor History, Child Labor History)
Fred Nielsen, Lecturer (email)
287Q ASH, 402-554-3172
19th and 20th Century US History
(American Cultural and Intellectual history, environmental history)
Les Valentine, archivist (email)
UNO Library, 402-554-2362
Mary Verschuur, Lecturer (email)
Emeritus Faculty
JoAnn Carrigan, Professor Emeritus
Harl Dalstrom, Professor Emeritus (email)
Dale Gaeddert, Professor Emeritus
Marian Nelson, Professor Emeritus
Richard Overfield, Professor Emeritus
William Petrowski, Professor Emeritus
Jacqueline St John, Professor Emeritus
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