Teaching Faculty & Staff Directory
- Beth Ritter, PhD — britter@unomaha.edu
- Interim Director of NAS, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies
- **Executive Council
- 402.554.3376
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- Federal Indian Policy, Contemporary Native American Issues
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- Kent Blansett, PhD — kblansett@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor
- Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Shawnee, and Potawatomi
- **Executive Council
- 402.554.3954
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- Native American History, Modern U.S. History, Global Indigenous History
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- Brady DeSanti — bdesanti@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor
- Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe
- **Executive Council
- 402.554.2956
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- Lyn M. Holley, PhD — lmholley@unomaha.edu
- Professor of Gerontology
- Cherokee
- **Executive Council
- 402.554.4814
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- Working with the Minority Elderly
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- Dennis J. Smith, PhD — dennissmith@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor History
- Assiniboine (Fort Peck)
- **Executive Council
- 402.554.3688
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- Northern Plains Tribes, Native American History, North American Indian Cultures
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- Brooktynn Blood — bblood@unomaha.edu
- Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
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- Michele Marie Desmarais, PhD — mdesmarais@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Religious Studies
- Metis (Canada)
- 402.554.2679
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- Carolyn K. Fiscus — cfiscus@unomaha.edu
- Ho-Chunk
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- Cindy Krafka — ckrafka@unomaha.edu
- Sicangu Lakota
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- Maunka Morgan, MBA — maunkam@7geninc.com
- Adjunct
- Ho-Chunk
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- Elaine Marie Nelson, PhD — emnelson@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor
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- Alan Osborn, PhD — aosborn2@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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- Dr. David James Peterson - davidpeterso1@unomaha.edu
- Arts and Sciences, English
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- Travis Robbins, PhD — trobbins2@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor
- Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
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- Barbara Robins, PhD — brobins@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor
- 402.554.3326
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- Mark Scherer, PhD — mscherer@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of History
- 402.554.2835
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- Nebraska and Great Plains Legal & political history Native American Legal History, American Revolutionary History
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- Catherine J. Warren — cjwarren@unomaha.edu
- Chickasaw
- Adjunct
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- Gretchen Carroll — gcarroll@unomaha.edu
- Tsitsistas (Cheyenne)
- Staff Assistant
- 402.554.2829
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- Jessiline Anderson, PhD — jessilineanderson@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Psychology
- Omaha Tribe of Nebraska
- 402.554.4811
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- Psychological and endocrine disorders; Leadership styles of African-American women in the clergy; Suicide prevention/intervention strategies in Native
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- Timi Barone, PhD — tbarone@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of Anthropology
- 402.554.3372
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- Medical Anthropology; Ethnomedicine; Human Adaptation
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- Ryan Hartigan — rhartigan@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of Theater
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- Bruce Johansen, PhD — bjohansen@unomaha.edu
- Professor of Communication
- 402.554.4851
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- Environmental Issues; Native American Studies
- Jeanne Reames, PhD — mreames@unomaha.edu
- Associate Professor of History
- Peoria/Miami
- 402.554.2489
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- Ancient Greece and Macedonia, Alexander the Great, History of the Early Church Power politics at the court of Alexander the Great, Macedonian social h
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- Hugh Reilly — hreilly@unomaha.edu
- Director and Associate Professor of Communication
- 402.554.3543
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- Advertising; Journalism History; Public Relations
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- Valerie St. Pierre Smith — vstpierresmith@unomaha.edu
- Assistant Professor of Theater
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- Mike Carroll
- Professor Emeritus
- Goodrich Program
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- Michael Tate
- Professor Emeritus
- History
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- Dale Stover
- Professor Emeritus
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- Jo Behrens — jlbehrens@unomaha.edu
- Professor Emerita
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