Husa CV

Professional Appointments

Lecturer (Full-Time)
Fall 2020 – Present
School of Global Integrative Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Courses Taught:

  • Elements of Physical Geography
  • Geography of Nebraska
  • Geography of the United States
  • Geography of World Regions
  • Historical Geography of the Great Plains
  • Introduction to Global Studies
  • Introductory Human Geography
  • Political Geography
  • Principles of GIS
  • Special Topics in Geography
  • Urban Geography

Education

PhD, Human & Historical Geography
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, May 2020
Dissertation: “Population Sustainability in Rural Nebraska Towns”
Advisor: David J. Wishart
Certificates:

  • Preparing Future Faculty (2019)
  • Digital Humanities (2018)
  • Teaching Online for Graduate Students (2018)

MA, Human & Historical Geography
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, August 2017
Thesis: “A Historical Geography of Six and Eight-Man Football in Nebraska”
Advisor: David J. Wishart

BA, Geography
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, December 2015

Publications

Articles

  • Husa, A. 2025. Rural Depopulation and Reduced-Player High School Football in Kansas. Kansas History 48(1): 2–17.
  • Husa, A. 2025. Locating the Natural Boundary between the Great Plains and Midwest. Middle West Review 11(2): 269–272.
  • Husa, A. 2024. Regional Geography in a Globalized World. Middle West Review 11(1): 41–48.
  • Husa, A. 2023. Home in the Hills. Rural Society 32(1): 30–44.
  • Husa, A. 2022. Population Sustainability in Rural Great Plains Towns. Great Plains Quarterly 42(4): 339–356.
  • Husa, A. 2022. Gender and Residential Decision Making. Great Plains Research 32(1): 21–28.
  • Husa, A. & Morse, C. E. 2022. Rurality as a Key Factor for Place Attachment. Geographical Review 112(1): 27–45.
  • Husa, A. 2019. Six and Eight-Man Football and Community Identity. Nebraska History 100(3): 210–219.

Book Chapters

  • Husa, A. 2023. The Changing Rural Landscape. In The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape.
  • Husa, A. & Morse, C. E. 2023. Rurality and Place Attachment. In Power of Place in Place Attachment.

Book Reviews

  • Husa, A. 2024. Review of The Lies of the Land. Great Plains Research 34(2): 146.
  • Husa, A. 2024. Review of Nothing but the Dirt. Great Plains Quarterly 43(4): 445–446.
  • Husa, A. 2022. Review of The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture. Journal of Cultural Geography 39(3): 420–421.
  • Husa, A. 2021. Review of The Taco Truck. Journal of Cultural Geography 38(2): 308–309.
  • Husa, A. 2019. Review of Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America. Historical Geography 47: 246–248.
  • Husa, A. 2019. Review of The Woolly West. Nebraska History Magazine 100(2): 125–126.
  • Husa, A. 2018. Review of Homesteading the Plains. Great Plains Quarterly 38(2): 244–245.

Affiliations and Service

Current Representation

  • Chair, AAG Rural Geography Specialty Group (2022–Present)
  • Faculty Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies (2021–Present)
  • GTU Alpha Phi Chapter Sponsor (2023–Present)
  • Member, Rural Population Research Network (2024–Present)
  • Advisory Board, UNL First Generation Nebraska (2024–Present)
  • Member, SGIS Colloquium Committee (2023–Present)
  • Member, SGIS Undergraduate Committee (2025–Present)

Former Representation

  • Rep, AAG Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division (2020–2023)
  • Rep, UNL Graduate Student Assembly – Geography (2019–2020)
  • Rep, AAG Cultural Geography Specialty Group (2018–2020)
  • Rep, AAG Rural Geography Specialty Group (2018–2020)
  • Graduate Fellow, Center for Great Plains Studies (2017–2020)
  • Student Outreach Asst., GTU GPRM Region (2016–2019)
  • Vice President/Treasurer, UNL Geography Student Org. (2016–2017)

Other Affiliations & Services

  • Volunteer Tutor, Lincoln Literacy (2022–Present)
  • Student Competitions Coordinator, AAG GPRM Conference (2021)
  • Instructor, UNL Institute for International TAs (2019)
  • Student Planning Committee, UNL GTA Workshops (2017)
  • Group Leader, UNL The Big Event (2017)
  • English Tutor, GeoVisions France (2016)
  • Participant, UNL Education Abroad France (2015)

Former Academic Experience

Graduate Teaching Assistant
Geography, UNL (2016–2020)
Courses: Geography of the U.S. (Instructor of Record), Physical Geography Lab, Economic Geography, Human Geography, Quality of the Environment

Research Assistant
The Homesteading Project, Center for Great Plains Studies (Summer 2019)

Aerial Photography Project
Natural Resources Conservation Service, UNL (Summer 2017)

Geography Tutor
UNL Athletics (Fall 2015)

Awards and Honors

  • Leslie Hewes Award for Outstanding Graduate Student, 2018
  • Student Recognition for French Language and Culture, 2016
  • Inductee, Gamma Theta Upsilon, 2015

Presentations (Selected)

  • “Place Attachment and Residential Decision-Making among Urban and Rural South Dakotans.” SDSU Geography Convention, April 2025
  • “Comparing Rural Stayers of Nebraska and Utah.” AAG GPRM Meeting, October 2024
  • “Where Does the Midwest End and the Plains Begin?” NGP History Conference, September 2024
  • “A Need for Public Transportation in the Rural Great Plains.” AAG National Meeting, April 2024
  • “Homesickness and Nostalgia among Nebraska Leavers.” AAG GPRM Meeting, October 2023
  • “Place Attachment among Urban and Rural Missourians.” University of Missouri Colloquium, September 2023
  • “Rural Stayers in the Missouri Ozarks and Nebraska Sandhills.” AAG National Meeting, March 2023
  • “Population Sustainability in Rural Nebraska Towns.” AAG GPRM Meeting, October 2021
  • “Sports Geography in Small Town Nebraska.” Concordia University, February 2020
  • “Nebraska Roots Migration Survey.” AAG GPRM Meeting, October 2019
  • “Mapping Population Growth in Rural Nebraska.” AAG National Meeting, April 2019
  • “Population Growth in Rural Nebraska.” Center for Great Plains Studies, February 2019
  • “Rural Depopulation and Six-Man Football.” AAG GPRM Meeting, October 2018
  • “Six and Eight-Man Football and Community Identity in Nebraska.” SDSU Geography Convention, March 2018