Danielle Battisti is finishing up work on an anthology, The Hidden Histories of Unauthorized European Migration to the United States, with her co-editor Dr. S. Deborah Kang. She will take part in a workshop showcasing that project at the University of Virginia’s Democracy Initiative in September 2022. Danielle has also been researching a new book project, Cold War Crossings, the United States and International Migration Management, 1945-1989 which examines American use of NGOs to direct the movement of “surplus” European populations to Latin America, Oceania, and elsewhere after World War II. Her research has earned her grants from a number of institutions including the Truman Foundation and the American Joint Jewish Distribution Committee Archives.
Mark Celinscak is currently working on another co-edited volume, International Approaches to Holocaust Studies (forthcoming with the University of Nebraska Press for their Contemporary Holocaust Studies series).
James Clark: has been working on a number of translation projects for the US State Department related to the continuing World Court case between the U.S and Iran. He also translated a report from the Justice Ministry of Afghanistan which arrived just two months before the collapse of that state. James also traveled to Tajikistan where he gave two talks at the Tajikistan State University of Commerce (TSUC).
Susana Geliga: serves as a co-director for the Genoa Indian School digital reconciliation Project, historian consultant and committee advisor for the Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte Center Restoration Project, an advisor for the Lakota Atlas Advisory Committee, an initiative of the Oglala Lakota College, a member of the Oceti Sakowin Treaty Council for the Rosebud Sioux tribe, and is an adjunct faculty professor for Native American Studies at the Nebraska Indian Community College. She is a 2022-2023 recipient for the American Council of Learned Societies Digital Justice Grant for the project Honoring Indigenous Community Knowledge: Expanding the Genoa Indian School Reconciliation Project Beyond the Government Archive to document oral histories of descendants from those who attended Genoa Indian school. She is also currently working on her book manuscript, a biography of Omaha woman Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte.
John Grigg: published a lengthy essay on “Missions” in the Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards. He also continued work on his study of local communities in eighteenth-century New Jersey.
Charles King is the Charles W. and Mary C. Martin Professor in History at UNO. He recently published an article in Dabir: “The Hunnic Attack on Persia: Chronology, Context, and the Accounts of Priscus and Thomas.” He is currently working on a book project entitled: “Attila’s Huns: Identity, Authority, and Interpretive Paradigms.” Charles was also interviewed on the podcast “Dates with Death,” where he discussed Roman death and the afterlife. You can listen to it here.
Jeanne Reames has three articles recently published or forthcoming: "Becoming Macedonian: Name Mapping and Ethnic Identity. The Case of Hephaistion." Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies 3 (2020): 11-37, with Jason Heppler & Cory Starman, who created the digital mapping for the project. "Warfare and Agriculture," with Ann Haverkost, in Wiley Companion to Greek Warfare; "Alexander the Great and Hephaistion in Fiction after Stonewall," in Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality. Her next project is “Appropriating Narratives of Empire: Alexander the Great and his Destruction of the Branchidai,” a chapter in a Festschrift to honor Edward M Anson (U.A., Little Rock), for which book she will also serve as editor. In 2019, she published a coming-of-age historical novel on the youth of Alexander the Great, Dancing with the Lion: Becoming and Rise, with Riptide Publishers.
Martina Saltamacchia: spent a great deal of the last two years poring over five autobiographies of the 17th century mystic saint Veronica Giuliani, which were located in the archive of an old monastery in Umbria (Italy). This research will be published in a volume co-edited with her mentor Rudy Bell (Rutgers U.), who sadly passed away in April 2022. The work is titled Veronica Giuliani, Adored Child and Mystic Saint in Catholic Reformation Italy: Five Autobiographies. Martina continues her study of the Cathedral of Milan and its donor Marco Carelli. Two chapters on this ongoing research, “Snakes, Razas, and the Prince’s Tomb: Gian Galeazzo Visconti and the Cathedral of Milan,” and “Marco Carelli e la confraternita dei Milanesi a Venezia: tra convinzioni religiose e senso degli affari,” have appeared in international volumes. The merchant Carelli has also been the protagonist of two presentations she gave this Spring, at the Fordham University (New York) conference on medieval mercantile mentalities and at the annual congress of the Italian Society of Medievalists in Matera (Italy).
Mark Scherer continues to deliver courses in Nebraska and Great Plains history, the American Revolution, and Native American law and policy, along with graduate and undergraduate seminars focusing on various aspects of constitutional, presidential, and judicial history. His most recent book, co-authored with John Wunder, is a history of the Federal District Court of Nebraska titled Echo of Its Time (University of Nebraska Press, 2019). He has participated in the filing of several amicus curiae briefs in the United States Supreme Court, and his first book, Imperfect Victories, was cited multiple times in the Supreme Court’s recent landmark decision in Native American law, McGirt v. Oklahoma. Mark and Lisa are now enjoying full immersion in the grandparent life, with two grandchildren so far and the hope for more to come.
Sharon Wood: has developed a number of online courses as well as serving as the department’s intern coordinator She also continues her research project tentatively entitled, “Priscilla’s Frontiers: the Life and Liberty of an Enslaved American.” She has also served on the board of the Union Pacific Museum and as an exhibit consultant to the Durham Museum.