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
-- "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
-- "Book Review: The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great," Frances Pownall, Sulochana R. Asirvatham, and Sabine Müller, eds. DeGruyter, 2022, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Feb. 2023.
Conference Papers
-- Forever Alexander: Commemorative Conference for Alexander's 323 Death, January 23, 2023, Online. Autonomous University of Barcelona. "From History to Story: Six Authors Share Their Process of Writing Alexander," Roundtable, moderator and participant.
--
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."
(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
World Civilization 1 |
Greek History &
Civilization |
Alexander the Great and the
Macedonian Origin |
Greek Myth & Religion |
Mesopotamia and Pre-Islamic
Persia |
Rome & the Early Church |
Greek I (language) |
Historical Methodology (pre-printing press) | Greek Battle Experience (senior seminar) |
Ethnicity, Gender & Sexuality in Ancient Greece (grad seminar) | Argead Macedonia (grad seminar) | Neo-Assyria, Neo-Babylon
& Achaemenid Persa (grad seminar) |
Greek Civilization |
Roman Civilization |
Classical Mythology |
Jewish and Christian
Foundations |
Hebrew Bible |
World Religions |
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