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)
-- Macedon
and its Influences: Narratives of Politics and War
in Honor of Edward M. Anson, Jeanne Reames
and Graham Wrightson, eds. Colloquia Antiqua
44, Peeters, 2024
-- 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
Refereed
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, 2024, 429-76.
--
"Court and Companions," in Cambridge Companion to
Alexander the Great. Daniel Ogden, ed. Malden and
Oxford: Cambridge, 2024, 179-91.
--
"Changes and Challenges at Alexander's Court," in Cambridge Companion to
Alexander the Great. Daniel Ogden, ed. Malden
and Oxford: Cambridge, 2024, 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.
-- "Becoming Macedonian: Name Mapping
and Ethnic Identity. The Case of Hephaistion." (with Jason Heppler & Cory
Starman, digital) 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.
Reviews, Essays, Fiction and Other Public History Publications
-- Complete list of public history blog post "asks" from Tumblr, arranged alphabetically, with dates and links
Conference Papers
-- "Cyclops vs. Wolverine: Plutarch, Hephaistion, Krateros, and Swords." Ninth International Alexander the Great Symposium, September 5, 2024, Omaha, NE.
(1) Argead Macedonia/Alexander the
Great
(2) Greek & Macedonian religion
(3) Greek gender studies
Additional Areas
of Teaching Interest
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor,
History, The University of Nebraska, Omaha (tenured)
- 2000 to present
Affiliated
Faculty, UNO Native American Studies Program
- 2005 to present
Affiliated Faculty, Religious Studies -
2016 to present
Affilianted Faculty, UNO Goldstein Center for
Human Rights - 2024 to present
World Civilization 1 |
Greek History |
Alexander the Great and
the Macedonian Origin |
Greek Myth, Religion
& Magic |
Mesopotamia and
Pre-Islamic Persia |
Rome & the Early
Church |
Greek I (language) |
Historical Methodology (pre-printing press) | Greek Battle Experience (senior seminar) |
Race, Gender & Sex in Ancient Greece (grad seminar) | Argead Macedonia (grad seminar) | Neo-Assyria, Neo-Babylon
& Achaemenid Persia (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
--"World Building in Historical Fiction," January 2025, National League of American Pen Women, Omaha branch