Press Advisory Board

Tom Gannon

Tom Gannon is an associate professor of English and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of Birding While Indian: A Mixed-Blood Memoir (The Ohio State University Press, 2023) and Skylark Meets Meadowlark: Reimagining the Bird in British Romantic and Contemporary Native American Literature (University of Nebraska Press, 2009) and has published numerous articles and essays.

James Garza

James Garza is an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of The Imagined Underworld: Sex, Crime, and Vice in Porfirian Mexico City (University of Nebraska Press, 2008) and many articles and essays.

Peter Longo

Peter Longo is a professor of political science at the University of Nebraska–Kearney. He is the author of Great Plains Politics (University of Nebraska Press, 2018) and co-author, with Robert Miewald and Anthony Schutz, of The Nebraska State Constitution: A Reference Guide, 2nd Edition (University of Nebraska Press, 2010).

Elizabeth Lorang

Elizabeth Lorang is Dean of Libraries at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is a member of the Association of Research Libraries’ Scholars and Scholarship Committee and serves on advisory boards for the national Data Curation Network and the National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive.

Laura K. Muñoz

Laura K. Muñoz is an associate professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Desert Dreams: Mexican Arizona and the Politics of Educational Equality (University of Pennsylvania Press) and has published several articles and essays.

Gabrielle Owen

Gabrielle Owen is an assistant professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of A Queer History of Adolescence: Developmental Pasts, Relational Futures (University of Georgia Press, 2020).

Mark Scherer

Mark Scherer is a professor in the Department of History at the University of Nebraska–Omaha. He is the author of Echo of Its Time: The History of the Federal District Court of Nebraska, 1867–1933 (University of Nebraska Press, 2019), Rights in the Balance: Free Press, Fair Trial, and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart (Texas Tech University Press, 2008), and Imperfect Victories: The Legal Tenacity of the Omaha Tribe, 1945–1995 (University of Nebraska Press, 1999).

Patricia Simpson

Patricia Simpson is a professor of German in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Reimagining the European Family: Cultures of Immigration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), Cultures of Violence in the New German Street (Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), and The Erotics of War in German Romanticism (Bucknell University Press, 2006).

Gerald Steinacher

Gerald Steinacher is the James A. Rawley Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of Humanitarians at War: The Red Cross in the Shadow of the Holocaust (Oxford University Press, 2017) and Nazis on the Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Justice (Oxford University Press, 2011), as well as numerous articles and essays. Steinacher is also series coeditor of Contemporary Holocaust Studies.

Michael Zeleny

Michael Zeleny is Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He served previously as Chief of Staff and Associate to the Chancellor at UNL, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Economic Development, and worked more than twenty years in the Office of Research and Economic Development.