Dr. Jeanne Reames

  Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program
Martin Professor of European History, 2023-25
Graduate Program Chair, History, 2015-19
 Missouri Valley History Conference Coordinator, 2011-13
Martin Professor of European History, 2009-11

287-K ASH, Department of History
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Omaha, NE 68182; email Dr. Reames

Educational History

Ph.D The Pennsylvania State University, 1998  (History)
     Dissertation: "Hephaistion Amyntoros: Éminence Grise at the Court of Alexander the Great"
M.Div Candler School of Theology, Emory University, 1989  (Early Church History/Counseling)
B.A. The University of Florida, 1985  (English/Creative Writing)

 

-- Dancing with the Lion 1: Becoming (NC: Riptide Publishers, 2019) 
-- Dancing with the Lion 2: Rise (NC: Riptide Publishers, 2019) 
-- Macedonian Legacies: Studies on Ancient Macedonian History and Culture in honor of Eugene N. Borza, ed. with Timothy Howe (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2008)     BMCR REVIEW
-- Macedon and its Influences: Narratives of Politics and War, ed. with Graham Wrightson. Colloquia Antiqua 44, Peeters 2025?

Academic Publications

-- “Appropriating Narratives of Empire: Alexander and the destruction of the Branchidai,” in Macedon and Its Influences: Narratives of Politics and War. Jeanne Reames and Graham Wrightson, eds. Colloquia Antiqua 44, 2025 (?)
--  "Philip's and Alexander's Use of Religious Cult in Our Extant Sources," in Brill's Companion to the Campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Edward M. Anson, ed. Leiden: Brill. Forthcoming, 2024?
-- "Court and Companions," in Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great. Daniel Ogden, ed. Malden and Oxford: Cambridge, 2023, 179-91.
-- "Changes and Challenges at Alexander's Court," in Cambridge Companion to Alexander the Great. Daniel Ogden, ed. Malden and Oxford: Cambridge, 2023, 192-212.
-- "Alexander the Great and Hephaistion in Fiction after Stonewall," in Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality. Kenneth Moore, ed. New York: Routledge, 2022, 229-52.
-- with Ann Haverkost. "Warfare and Agriculture," in Wiley Companion to Greek Warfare, Waldemar Heckel, F. S. Naiden, John Vanderspoel, and E. E. Garvin, eds. London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2021, 286-98.
-- (with Jason Heppler & Cory Starman, digital) "Becoming Macedonian: Name Mapping and Ethnic Identity. The Case of Hephaistion." Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies. vol 3 (2020): 11-37.
-- "The Cult of Hephaistion," Responses to Oliver Stone's 'Alexander,' Paul Cartledge and Fiona Greenland, eds., (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Press, 2010) 183-217.
-- "Crisis and Opportunity: The Philoas Affair ... Again," Macedonian Legacies, Jeanne Reames and Timothy Howe, eds. (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2009) 165-81.
-- "Alexander as Icon: Some Socio-Political Contexts of Alexander the Great in Twentieth-Century Fiction," Alexander's Empire: From Formulation to Decay, Waldemar Heckel and P. V. Wheatley, eds (Claremont, CA: Regina Books, 2006) 233-44.
**Published as Reames-Zimmerman:
-- "The Mourning of Alexander the Great," Syllecta Classica 12 (2001) 98-145.
-- "An Atypical Affair? Alexander the Great, Hephaistion, and the Nature of Their Relationship," The Ancient History Bulletin 13.3 (1999) 81-96.
-- (with Eugene N. Borza) "Some New Thoughts on the Death of Alexander the Great," The Ancient World 31.1 (2000) 1-9.

Fiction, Reviews, Essays, and Other Publications

Conference Papers

-- Twenty-first Batchelder Conference in Religious Studies and Archaeology, Nov. 16, 2019, Omaha, NE; "Mapping Identity in Greece and Magna Gracia: the Case of Hephaistion."
-- Annual Meeting, Association of Ancient Historians, April 25, 2019, Atlanta, GA: Special Session: Alexander's Afterlives, "Alexander and Hephaistion in Fiction after Stonewall."
-- Eighth International Alexander the Great symposium, "The Courts of Philip II & Alexander the Great," May 3, 2018, Edmonton, CA; "Mapping Identity in Greece and Magna Gracia: the Case of Hephaistion."
-- Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, March 2, 2017, Omaha, NE; "What’s in a Name?  Mapping 'Hephaistion' in Greece and Magna Gracia."

-- European Studies Conference, October 8, 2016, Omaha, NE; "Appropriating Narratives of Empire: Alexander and the Destruction of the Branchidae."
-- The Age of Alexander the Great Symposium, April 4, 2016, Brookings, SD; invited paper; "What's in a Name: 'Amyntor' and 'Hephaistion' in Macedonia."
-- Seventeenth Batchelder Conference in Religious Studies and Archaeology, November 13, 2015, Omaha, NE; "Appropriating Narratives of Empire: Alexander and the Destruction of the Branchidae."

-- Annual Missouri Valley History Conference, March 4, 2004; "Alexander as Icon: Some Socio-Political Contexts of Alexander the Great in Twentieth-Century Fiction."
-- First International Alexander the Great symposium, January 18-19, 2002, Calgary, Alberta; invited paper, "Hephaistion, Alexander's Diplomatic-Logistical Wizard?"
-- Annual Meeting, Association of Ancient Historians, May 2001, Lubbock, TX; Session 2: Makedonica panel, "Hephaistion, Alexander's Diplomatic-Logistical Wizard?"
-- "'What's your name again?' A Mystery at Alexander's Court." October 12, 2000,  University of Nebraska at Omaha, history colloquium
-- Annual Meeting, American Philological Association, December 1999, Dallas, TX: "An Atypical Affair?  Alexander the Great, Hephaistion Amyntoros, and the nature of their relationship"
-- Spring Meeting of the Classical Association of Atlantic States, spring 2000, "An Atypical Affair?  Alexander the Great, Hephaistion Amyntoros, and the nature of their relationship" (accepted, but never presented for reasons of scheduling conflicts)
-- Annual Meeting, American Philological Association, December, 1998, Washington, DC: "Some New Thoughts on the Death of Alexander the Great" (with Eugene N. Borza).

Invited Lectures

-- "Who's Buried in Philip's Tomb?" University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE, March 12, 2018
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Academic Areas for Publishing

(1) Argead Macedonia/Alexander the Great
(2) Greek & Macedonian religion
(3) Greek gender studies

Additional Areas of Teaching Interest

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor, The University of Nebraska, Omaha (tenured) - fall 2000 to present

At the University of Nebraska, Omaha:
--Chair, Undergraduate Committee, History (2021-2022)
--Director, Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program (2014-ongoing)
--Graduate Program Chair, History (2015-2020)
--Member, Education and Policy Committee (2018-2020)
--Member, Selection Committee for Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award (2017-2019)
--Member, Philosophy, 7-Year Review (2017)
--Missouri Valley History Conference Coordinator (2012-13)
--Book Exibit Coordinator, Missouri Valley History Conference (2010-11)
--Faculty Senate (2006-09)
--Faculty Senate: Academic and Curricular Affairs standing subcommittee, chair, spring 2009
-- Martin Fund, Newsletter & Recruitment Committees (history)
-- Member, Native American Studies faculty
--Coordinator, Richard Dean Winchell Lecture Series, History Department (2001-04)
-- Department of History website designer and maintainer (2004-present)
--Ad hoc committee on ancient foreign language acquisition

Honor Societies:
-- Eta Sigma Phi, Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Kappa Phi

Service to the Community and Profession

--"Jesus' World: Conversations with a Professor of the Ancient Mediterranean," Hanscom Park United Methodist Church, 4 week series, Wednesdays in October, 2020.
--"The Glory of Mycenaean Greece," August 2017, National League of American Pen Women, Omaha branch
--History Lecture series for Aksarben Senior Living Community (History of the Early Church, Alexander the Great, and Narratives of Empire in the Ancient Near East vs. the Greco-Roman West), June and July of 2016