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Brady DeSanti, PhD Brady DeSanti, PhD
Brady DeSanti, PhD

Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe

Director of Native American Studies

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

402.554.2628

bdesanti@unomaha.edu
  • Native American and Religious Studies
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Brooktynn Blood
Brooktynn Blood

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

bblood@unomaha.edu
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Michele Desmarais
Michele Marie Desmarais, Ph.D.

Metis (Canada)

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

mdesmarais@unomaha.edu
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Carolyn Fiscus
Carolyn K. Fiscus

Ho-Chunk

cfiscus@unomaha.edu
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Cindy Krafka
Cindy Krafka

Sicangu Lakota

ckrafka@unomaha.edu
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Susana Grajales Geliga
Dr. Susana Grajales Geliga (Sicangu Lakota)

Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies

** Executive Council

History & Native American Studies

sgeliga@unomaha.edu
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Laura Alexander, PhD
Laura Alexander, PhD

Goldstein Family Chair in Human Rights

Associate Professor

Religious Studies

lealex@unomaha.edu
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Sarah Nelson, Ph.D.
Sarah Nelson, Ph.D.

Affiliate of Medical Humanities, Native American Studies

snelson57@unomaha.edu
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Lyn M. Holley

Dr. Chuck Powell Professorship in Gerontology

Gerontology

lmholley@unomaha.edu
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Maunka Morgan
Maunka Morgan, MBA

Adjunct

Ho-Chunk

maunkamorgan@aol.com
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Dr. Alan Joseph Osborn

Sociology & Anthropology, Associate Professor

aosborn2@unomaha.edu
  • Great Plains Archaeology, Paleoindian Adaptations, Nutritional Anthropology
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Dr. David James Peterson

English, Associate Professor

davidpeterso1@unomaha.edu
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Carol RedWing, MPA  |  Doctoral Student
Carol Redwing

Enrolled Yankton Dakota Tribe/Santee Dakota

Doctoral Student, Instructor

**Executive Council

School of Public Administration and Native American Studies

credwing@unomaha.edu
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Beth Ritter
Beth Ritter, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology and Native American Studies

britter@unomaha.edu
  • Federal Indian Policy
  • Contemporary Native American Issues
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Dr. Barbara K Robins

English, Associate Professor

brobins@unomaha.edu
  • Native American Literature and Visual Arts, Historical Trauma, Native American responses to 9/11
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Travis Robbins
Travis Robbins, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma

trobbins2@unomaha.edu
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Mark Scherer
Mark Scherer, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of History

mscherer@unomaha.edu
  • Nebraska and Great Plains Legal & political history Native American Legal History, American Revolutionary History
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Dennis Smith
Dennis J. Smith, Ph.D.

Assiniboine (Fort Peck)

Associate Professor History

**Executive Council

402.554.3688

dennissmith@unomaha.edu
  • Northern Plains Tribes, Native American History, North American Indian Cultures
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Miye Tom, Ph.D.
Miye Tom, Ph.D.

Paiute/Pomo

Native American Studies

mtom@unomaha.edu
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Catherine J. Warren
Catherine J. Warren

Chickasaw

Adjunct

cjwarren@unomaha.edu
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Staff

Gary Saul
Gary Saul

Sičháŋǧu Lakȟóta Oyáte, Umoⁿhoⁿ, Hocąk

Office Associate-Native American Studies

Inter-tribal Student Council, Treasurer

gsaul@unomaha.edu
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Affiliated Faculty

Timi Barone, Ph.D.
Timi Barone, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Anthropology

tbarone@unomaha.edu
  • Medical Anthropology; Ethnomedicine; Human Adaptation
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Jeanne Reames
Jeanne Reames, Ph.D.

402.554.2489

mreames@unomaha.edu
  • 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
Hugh Reilly

Director and Associate Professor of Communication

402.554.3543

hreilly@unomaha.edu
  • Advertising; Journalism History; Public Relations
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Emeritus Faculty

Jessiline Anderson
Jessiline Anderson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology

Omaha Tribe of Nebraska

jessilineanderson@unomaha.edu
  • Psychological and endocrine disorders; Leadership styles of African-American women in the clergy; Suicide prevention/intervention strategies in Native
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Jo Behrens
Jo Behrens

Professor Emerita

jlbehrens@unomaha.edu
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Mike Carroll
Mike Carroll

Professor Emeritus

Goodrich Program

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Dale Stover
Dale Stover

Professor Emeritus

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Mike Tate
Michael Tate

Professor Emeritus

History

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