The University of Nebraska Press is pleased to announce the hire of Jane Ferreyra as its next Director effective September 7. Ferreyra has an extensive publishing background that includes fifteen years as director of Wayne State University Press. Most recently … Continue reading UNP hires Jane Ferreyra as new Director
C’RONA Pandemic Comics is a collection of short comics and essays developed to help youth understand the complexities of living through a viral pandemic. The stories focus on three themes: the biology and social context of the COVID-19 virus; the relationship … Continue reading C’RONA Pandemic Comics Display at the Nebraska State Capitol
Rosemary Sekora is the publicity manager at UNP and wouldn’t be a very good marketer if she didn’t mention the baseball book sale happening now until April 21. After high school in Colorado, I decided to attend the University of … Continue reading The Marketeers Club: Nebraska, Home of the Baseball Book?
Heather Stauffer is an Associate Acquisitions Editor at UNP. She is the granddaughter of Helen Winter Stauffer, a Mari Sandoz scholar. Helen Winter Stauffer (1922-2019), was the author of Mari Sandoz and Letters of Mari Sandoz. Read Helen’s obituary here. Mari Sandoz is … Continue reading Laying the Groundwork: Helen Winter Stauffer on the Trail of Mari Sandoz
Heather Stauffer is an Associate Acquisitions Editor at UNP. She is the granddaughter of Helen Winter Stauffer, a Mari Sandoz scholar. Helen Winter Stauffer (1922-2019), was author of Mari Sandoz and Letters of Mari Sandoz. Helen Winter Stauffer led an extraordinary life … Continue reading Remembering Helen Winter Stauffer
Vladimír Dzuro, author of The Investigator, recently released from Potomac Books, is presenting his book today at 7:00 p.m. in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Union Auditorium located on city campus. Dzuro has been on an international tour supporting his new … Continue reading See Vladimir Dzuro, The Investigator, at UNL
The following is an excerpt from Art from Trauma: Genocide and Healing beyond Rwanda (August 2019) edited by Rangira Béa Gallimore and Gerise Herndon. The excerpt is written by Natalia Ledford. I first met Chantal Kalisa in 2009 as I … Continue reading Excerpt: Art from Trauma
Tom Gannon is an Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, author of Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature (Nebraska, 2009), and an enrolled member of the Cheyenne … Continue reading New Laurels for the Joy of Native Poetry
Tomorrow is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s official Charter Day! The public is invited to meet with Chancellor Ronnie Green, deans, and dignitaries as they greet and hand out N|150 cupcakes to students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends of the university … Continue reading Celebrating Dear Old Nebraska U
Roger Welsch is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is a former essayist for CBS News Sunday Morning and the author of more than forty books, and wrote the introduction to Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building … Continue reading From the Desk of Roger Welsch: The Importance of the Omaha Language
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