Nevada Humanities

Humanities on the Road Speakers

James Armstead

Professor
Naval Post-Graduate School
Monterey, California
(831) 656-2118

Thaddeus Dunkley: Black Cowboy
Henry D. Flipper: Buffalo Soldier and Engineer
James P. Beckwourth: Mountain Man & Explorer
Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr.: Tuskegee Airman

Stan Armstrong

Documentary Filmmaker
Desert Rose Productions
Las Vegas, Nevada
(702) 739-7472

Children of the Civil War
Minority Roles in the Civil War

Jennifer Huss Basquiat

Professor, Department of Communication
Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 651-7421

Rose Will Monroe: Rosie the Riveter
Exoticizing the Other: Haitian Images in US Popular Culture

Patty Cafferata

Former state treasurer and former district attorney of Esmeralda County (Goldfield)
Reno, Nevada
(775) 825-2694

The Story of Nevada's State Treasurers: Some were Thieves
The Goldfield Hotel: In Nevada's Last Gold Rush Town
The Mapes Hotel: The First High Rise Hotel Built After World War II

Sue Fawn Chung

Professor of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-3351

Ah Cum Kee: A Second-Generation Chinese American Woman
Loy Lee Ford, Tonopah Pioneer

Steve Davis

Assistant Director
Nevada Humanities Committee
(775) 784-6587

Sagebrush Vernacular: Rural Architecture in Nevada

Doris Dwyer

Professor of History
Western Nevada Community College, Fallon, Nevada
(775) 423-7565

Margaret Breen: Donner Party Survivor
Margaret Bourke-White: Pioneering Photographer
Women's Voices from the Overland Trail
Anne Hutchinson

Brad Eden

Librarian, Lied Library
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-2225

J.R.R. Tolkien: Professor, Linguist, Writer and Creator of Fantasy

Neal Ferguson

Dean, College of Extended Studies
University of Nevada, Reno
(775) 327-5164

Bertrand Russell: Popular Philosopher

Michael Fischer

Director, Dept. of Cultural Affairs
(775) 687-8393

John Sparks: Western Cattle King
H.F. Dangberg Sr.

Bernadette Francke

Independent Scholar
Fallon, Nevada
(775) 867-2586

Camera on the Comstock: 19th Century Virginia City photographers

Michael Green

Professor of History
Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 651-4457

Mr. Lincoln and Nevada
Nevada's Partisan Press
The Nevada Political Tradition
The Rise of Las Vegas

Charles Greenhaw

Emeritus Professor
Great Basin College
Elko, Nevada
(775) 337-8122

Jack Dempsey in the Mining Towns
Daniel Murphy: Immigrant, Trailblazer & Cattle Baron
Images of the Gold Rush Trail in Nevada, 1849-50: The Diary and Art of J. Goldsborough Bruff
From "Vaquero" to Buckaroo
Crossing Nevada on the Victory Highway

Shaun Griffin

Poet, Virginia City Community Chest
Virginia City, Nevada
(775) 847-9311

Language & Literature Topics:
Being a Poet in the West

Ruth Hanusa

Independent Scholar

Women's History Topics:
Hildegard Von Bingen: Medieval Mystic

Fred Horlacher

Retired Teacher, WCSD
Sparks, Nevada
(775) 424-0530

Brigham Young, The Lion of Zion
Tales from the Emigrant Trail and the Sagebrush Hills of Nevada

Anne Howard

Emeritus Professor of English
University of Nevada, Reno
(775) 786-4732

Louisa May Alcott: Groundbreaking Author
Kate Chopin: A Woman Ahead of Her Time
Dorothy Parker: Humorist and Critic
Meeting Emily Dickinson

Brian Kral

Adjunct Faculty
Community College of Southern Nevada
(702) 656-7409

Marshal Tito: Yugoslav Revolutionary
William Clark: Recalling the Corps of Discovery

McAvoy Layne

(775)833-1835
Mark Twain
A Chautauqua presentation

Linda Miller

(702) 492-7742

The Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort: Birthplace of Las Vegas

Doug Mishler

Independent Scholar
Reno, Nevada
(775) 826-1685

Theodore Roosevelt: Architect of the American Century
Andrew Carnegie: The Promise and Challenge of American Democracy
Henry Ford: Man of Progress, Man of the Past
William Lloyd Garrison: Anti-Slavery Activist
P.T. Barnum: An American Original
Ernie Pyle: Voice of the Common GI

Frank Mullen, Jr.

Reporter Reno Gazette-Journal
Reno, Nevada
(775) 788-6397

The Donner Party: The Tragedy of a Doomed Wagon Train

Stephen Nasser

Author and Lecturer
Las Vegas, Nevada
(702-239-9000)

From the Holocaust to Freedom

Kim Russell

International House of Blues Foundation
Las Vegas, Nevada
(702) 248-1232

The Incurable Disease of Writing

Sojourner Truth: Feminist, Preacher, Former Slave

Bernard Schopen

Instructor
Western Traditions Program
University of Nevada, Reno
(775) 329-9193

Nevada in Fiction

Dina Titus

Dept. of Political Science
University of Nevada. Las Vegas
(702) 895-3756

Behind the Irony Curtain: Lenin Loses his Head in Las Vegas
From Political Symbol to Nostalgic Icon: The Kitschification of the Mushroom Cloud

Anita Watson

Independent Scholar
Carson City, Nevada
(775) 882-8135

Into Their Own: Nevada Women Emerging Into Public Life
"Beware of the Quacks and Pretenders": Medical Diversity in Early Nevada
Mary Oxborrow: Pioneer Midwife and Healer
Mary McNair Matthews: Jack of All Trades

Juanita Westbrook

Director, Simuneye Productions, Reno, Nevada
(775) 379-9871

Alice Smith, Civil Rights Pioneer
Madame C.J. Walker: Inventor and Entrepreneur
Bessie Coleman: American Aviator

David Wrobel

Professor of History
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
(702) 895-0810

A World of Clashing Darwinisms