Education Background

University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Ph.D., History, May 2006
Fields of Study: North American West and Comparative World History
Dissertation: “Immigration, the American West, and the Twentieth Century:
German from Russia, Omaha Indian, and Vietnamese-Urban
Villagers in Lincoln, Nebraska.”
Directed by Dr. John R. Wunder

University of Alabama at Birmingham, M.A., History, 2000
Thesis: “Old-Time Music in the New South: The Birmingham Perspective, 1890-1950.”
Directed by Dr. Andre J. Millard

University of Minnesota, B.S., Secondary Education, 1992
Teaching certificate granted by the State of Minnesota

University of Nebraska--Lincoln, B.A., History, 1980

Job Responsibilities

Undergraduate Courses:
World History to 1500
United States to 1877
United States since 1877
Cultural Anthropology
Global and Identity
Belief and Culture
Ancient West
Ancient East Asia
Modern East Asia
Pacific Rim
Nebraska History
Native American History
Great Plains Capstone
Processes in World History
Social Science Seminar
Independent Study in the Four Fields of Anthropology
Biking USA Capstone

Graduate Courses:
Global and Identity
Ancient East Asia
Modern East Asia
Ancient West
Research Seminar

Campus Involvement

Faculty Advisor to Student Government
Member of Graduate Council
Chair of Rank Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2021-22 and 2022-23

Research & Professional Interests

Selected Bibliography

Books

Urban Villages and Local Identities: Germans from Russia, Omaha Indians, and Vietnamese in Lincoln, Nebraska. Texas Tech University Press, 2015. (e-book, 2020.)

Reconfigurations of Native North America: An Anthology of New Perspectives. John R. Wunder and Kurt E. Kinbacher, ed., Texas Tech University Press, 2009.

Articles

“Bias on the Byways: An Indigenous Analysis of Nebraska Historical Markers,” co-authored with Jerry Robinson and Jeff Mohr, Great Plains Quarterly, 41, nos. 3-4, (Summer-Fall 2022): 251-276.

“Contested Events and Conflicting Meanings: Mari Sandoz and the Sappa Creek Cheyenne Massacre of 1875.” Great Plains Quarterly 36, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 309-26.
“Indians and Empires: Cultural Change among the Omaha and Pawnee, from Contact to 1808.” Great Plains Quarterly 32 (Summer 2012): 207-221.

“Shaping Nebraska: An Analysis of Railroad and Land Sales, 1870-1880,” coauthored with William G. Thomas III. Great Plains Quarterly 28 (Summer 2008): 191-207.

“Imagining Place: Nebraska Territory, 1854-1867.” In Timothy R. Mahoney and Wendy Katz, ed., Regionalism and the Humanities. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008, 251-73.
Selected Bibliography:

Other

“Northwest Nebraska Gravel Grinding Adventures,” Discover Northwest Nebraska,
Roads Less Traveled - Discover Northwest Nebraska (discovernwnebraska.com)

“Shape Shifter,” Adventure Cyclist, August/September 2020, 14-5.