Yael Mabat is a research fellow at the Sverdlin Institute for Latin American Studies and a lecturer of history at Ben-Gurion University. She is the author of Sacrifice and Regeneration: Seventh-day Adventism and Religious Transformation in the Andes (Nebraska, 2022) which … Continue reading From the Desk of Yael Mabat: On Creating Sacrifice and Regeneration
Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies and Associate Professor of History at Brigham Young University. He is author of the award-winning book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North … Continue reading From the Desk of Brenden W. Rensink: Engaging the Present with the Past
Jessica Cherry is a geoscientist, writer, aerial photographer, and commercial airplane pilot living in Anchorage, Alaska. She wrote a literary column for the alternative weekly Anchorage Press from 2019-2022. She is coeditor of Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska … Continue reading From the Desk of Jessica Cherry: Polar Exploration Is for Everyone
Steven L. Dundas has served thirty-nine years in the U.S. Army and Navy. He is a former assistant professor at the Joint Forces Staff College, National Defense University, and a retired chaplain with the U.S. Navy. For decades Dundas has been … Continue reading From the Desk of Steven Dundas: A Meditation on Veterans Day
C. Thomas Shay is a senior scholar in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (Nebraska, July 2022). Writing Under Prairie Skies … Continue reading From the Desk of C. Thomas Shay: The Making of an Ethnobotany
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine is an assistant professor of history at La Sierra University. She is the author of From Back Alley to the Border: Criminal Abortion in California, 1920-1969 (Nebraska, 2020). In 2015, on the first major research trip for my doctoral … Continue reading From the Desk of Alicia Gutierrez-Romine: What the History of Abortion Should Teach Us
Mary F. Ehrlander is a Professor Emeritus of History and Arctic & Northern Studies at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. She is the author of Walter Harper, Alaska Native Son (Bison Books, 2017), Equal Educational Opportunity: Brown’s Elusive Mandate and coauthor of Education Reform in the … Continue reading From the Desk of Mary Ehrlander: The Success of the Walter Harper Project
Annette B. Dunlap is an independent scholar and journalist. She is the author of Frank: The Story of Frances Folsom Cleveland, America’s Youngest First Lady; The Gambler’s Daughter: A Personal and Social History; and Charles Gates Dawes: A Life. Her newest book, A Woman … Continue reading From the Desk of Annette B. Dunlap: Discovering First Lady Lou Henry Hoover
Suzanne Roberts is the author of Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties (Nebraska, 2022), Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (Nebraska, 2020), and Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (Bison Books, 2012), and four collections of poetry. Visit her … Continue reading From the Desk of Suzanne Roberts: There’s No Such Thing as Writer’s Block, Writing Inspiration in 6 Easy Tips
Joe Bonomo teaches in the Department of English at Northern Illinois University. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Field Recordings from the Inside: Essays; Conversations with Greil Marcus; Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band; Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost … Continue reading From the Desk of Joe Bonomo: Roger Angell, Legendary Writer
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