Nebraska Geography

Rebecca Buller is a cultural and historical geographer, with specialties in the Great Plains and American West, experiential and geographic education, and women and gender studies. She serves as a Fellow of the Center for Great Plains Studies, where she also is the Journals Book Review Editor for Great Plains Quarterly and Great Plains Research.

Andrew Husa’s current research is on rural place attachment and population sustainability efforts. He looks at the reasoning behind why people choose to stay in rural areas, especially in the Great Plains. He plans to continue this residential decision-making research in other states. Husa is a Center for Great Plains Studies fellow, Chair of the American Association of Geographers Rural Geography Specialty Group, Alpha Phi Chapter Sponsor of the Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Honor Society and member of the UNL First Generation Nebraska Advisory Board. He teaches geography of Nebraska, historical geography of the great plains, elements of physical geography, and more.