Fred Nielsen

Fred Nielsen has been a member of the history department at the University of Nebraska at Omaha since 1992. He earned his M.Phil. and Ph.D. at the University of Kansas. He specializes in the nineteenth and twentieth century U.S., especially its cultural, intellectual, and environmental history. He has offered a wide variety of courses at UNO, including American Cultural and Intellectual history, American Environmental History, The Civil War and Reconstruction, The United States since 1945, America in the Sixties, and U.S. History Viewed Right and Left.

Nielsen is a member of the American Historical Association, the Organization of American Historians, the American Studies Association, the American Society for Environmental History, and the Thoreau Society. He is also a member of the Nebraska Humanities Council's Speakers' Bureau and the executive board of the Nebraska State Council for the Social Studies. He has served on several advisory groups for the Omaha Public Schools, including one that recently reviewed the K-12 social studies curriculum. His works in progress include Doubters in the Land of Plenty, an intellectual and environmental history of the limits to growth movement in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Emily, his school-age daughter.