Alex Squadron is a sports journalist who has worked as an associate editor for SLAM, producing cover stories on NBA stars and reporting on numerous marquee events, including the NBA Finals, NBA All-Star Weekend, and FIBA World Cup in China. … Continue reading From the Desk of Alex Squadron: On Life in the G
Patrice Gopo is an award-winning essayist who writes stories steeped in themes of place, belonging, and home. She is the author of two essay collections: the newly released Autumn Song: Essays on Absence (Nebraska, 2023) and All the Colors We … Continue reading From the Desk of Patrice Gopo: Words that Connect Us, Words that Help Us Feel Seen
John Mabry was the sports editor for the Lincoln Journal Star from 1997 to 2007. During that time he helped cover the Husker volleyball team at five NCAA Final Fours. He has written more than five hundred features for the Journal Star and its niche … Continue reading From the Desk of John Mabry: Nebraska Volleyball Day
R. Eli Paul is the former director of the Missouri Valley Special Collections at the Kansas City Public Library. His public history career has spanned four decades, including previous tenures at the Nebraska State Historical Society, Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, … Continue reading From the Desk of R. Eli Paul
It felt like driving across another planet. I was off-roading through a stark region of cinder cones and craters. Overlapping 4×4 tracks and occasional pine trees were the most familiar terrestrial features. Welcome to a warm June evening several years ago in the Cinder Hills OHV Area in Northern Arizona. Continue reading Becoming a Space Age Adventurer: The Story Behind a Book Combining Space Sites with Space Stories
Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, … Continue reading From the Desk of Margaret Jacobs: Reflections on the Supreme Court case, Haaland v. Brackeen
Erik Sherman is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens: Life beyond Baseball with the ’86 Mets and Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words (Nebraska, 2021). He is the coauthor of five other … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Sherman: Celebrating the Retirement of Fernando Valenzuela’s #34
David K. Seitz is associate professor of Cultural Geography at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. He is the author of A Different ‘Trek’: Radical Geographies of ‘Deep Space Nine’ (Nebraska, 2023), and A House of Prayer for All People: … Continue reading From the Desk of David K. Seitz: On the Political Uses of ‘Star Trek’
Rob Goldman is the author of three baseball books, Once They Were Angels, Nolan Ryan: The Making of a Pitcher, and the novel Hauling Time. His book The Sisterhood: The 99ers and the Rise of U.S. Women’s Soccer was published in November … Continue reading From the Desk of Rob Goldman: “Are You with Me?”
Erik Hansson is a human geographer. He wrote The Begging Question (Nebraska, 2023) during his postdoctoral fellowship at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has also been stationed at Uppsala University, University of Gothenburg, and Mid Sweden University. The Begging … Continue reading From the Desk of Erik Hansson: The Symptom of Sweden’s Racial Crises
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