Winchell Lecture: “Where Do Pandemics Come From?” with Monica Green (Read More)
On April 24th at 6:00PM in Barbara Weitz Community Engagement Center rooms 201-209, the Department of History will welcome Dr. Monica Green as this year's Richard Dean Winchell Lecturer. Discover how pandemics truly begin—and why they thrive—by tracing their path from medieval plagues to modern outbreaks. In this talk, Dr. Green will reveal how infectious diseases jump species barriers, travel global networks, and persist for centuries. Drawing on cutting-edge genetics and fresh insights into the Black Death, she’ll show how history can guide us in confronting pandemics today—and preventing them tomorrow. Free registration is required Dr. Monica H. Green is an award-winning historian specializing in the history of medicine and global health, with a particular focus on the medieval period. Her pioneering work bridges the humanities and sciences, integrating historical research with cutting-edge genetics to explore the origins and spread of pandemics, including the Black Death. A Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, Dr. Green has published extensively on the history of disease, women’s health, and medical knowledge transmission across cultures. As an independent scholar, she continues to shape global conversations on historical epidemiology and the interdisciplinary study of health.
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Winchell History Lecture: Understanding White Supremacy: Decoding the Actions of the White Power Movement (Read More)
The UNO Department of History welcomes Dr. Kathleen Belew as this year's Richard Dean Winchell History Lecturer. Dr. Belew is an Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University and specializes in the recent history of the United States, examining the long aftermath of warfare. Her book "Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America", explores how white power activists wrought a cohesive social movement through a common story about warfare and its weapons, uniforms, and technologies. By uniting previously disparate Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazi, skinhead, and other groups, Belew reveals how the movement carried out escalating acts of violence that reached a crescendo in the 1995 bombing of Oklahoma City. Her latest book, "A Field Guide to White Supremacy" (co-edited alongside Ramon A. Gutierrez), connects the dots between current events—acts of hate, racial violence, and racist law-making—and the deep, violent roots of white supremacy in this country. The event is free, but tickets are required to reserve a spot. Register for tickets here.
