• Ph D, History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2013
• MA, History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2008
• BA, History, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 2006

• Certificate in Increasing Interaction & Engagement, Higher Learning Commission
• Certificate in Effective College Instruction, Association of College and University Educators

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• Probasco, Nathan. Review of Collette H. Winn, ed., and Lauren King, trans. The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile: Three Women’s Stories. In Early Modern Women, an Interdisciplinary Journal 14, no. 2 (2020): 165-68. (DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1353/emw.2020.0054)
• Probasco, Nathan. Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition: Preparing for a Voyage. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. (DOI: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-57258-7)
• Probasco, Nathan. “John Dee, Humphrey Gilbert, and Richard Hakluyt’s Erasure of Native Americans.” In Firsting in the Early-Modern Atlantic World. Edited by Lauren Beck, 25-49. New York: Routledge, 2020. (DOI: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429320002-2/john-dee-humphrey-gilbert-richard-hakluyt-erasure-native-americans-nate-probasco)
• Probasco, Nathan. “American bodies and landscapes in early English colonization.” Studies in Travel Writing 22 (Feb. 2018): 16-38 . (DOI: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13645145.2018.1458696)
• Probasco, Nathan, Jowitt, Claire, and Probasco, Nate. Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens. Edited by Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, and Claire Jowitt. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 . (DOI: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-57159-1)
• Probasco, Nathan. Review of Lois G. Schwoerer, Gun Culture in Early Modern England. In Journal of British Studies 56 (Jan. 2017): 168-69. (DOI: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/lois-g-schwoerer-gun-culture-in-early-modern-england-charlottesville-university-of-virginia-press-2016-pp-272-3950-cloth/0F6DDF676206720E83A6A416FE725672)
• Probasco, Nathan. “Anne Aucher,” “Eleanor White Dare,” “Faith Fulford Davis,” “Dorothy Monk Killigrew,” “Pocahontas,” and “Elizabeth Gale Wilford.” In A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen: Exemplary Lives and Memorable Acts, 1500-1650. Edited by Carole Levin, Anna Bertolet, and Jo Eldridge Carney, 55-6, 62-3, 75-7, 120-21, 151, 223. New York: Routledge, 2017.. (DOI: https://www.routledge.com/A-Biographical-Encyclopedia-of-Early-Modern-Englishwomen-Exemplary-Lives/Levin-Bertolet-Carney/p/book/9780367882532)
• Probasco, Nathan. “Catherine de Medici and Huguenot Colonization, 1560-1567.” In Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens. Edited by Estelle Paranque, Nate Probasco, and Claire Jowitt, 41-72. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 . (DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-57159-1_3)
• Probasco, Nathan. “Cartography as a Tool of Colonization: Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s 1583 Voyage to North America.” Renaissance Quarterly 67 (Summer 2014): 425-72. (DOI: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/677407?seq=1)
• Probasco, Nathan. Review of Chet van Duzer, Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps. In Western Association of Map Libraries Information Bulletin 45 (Nov. 2013): 45-7. (DOI: https://waml.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/IB-V45N1-Nov13.pdf)
• Probasco, Nathan, Carpenter, Caroline, Griffin, Lauren , Kuhn, John, Lambert, James, Probasco, Nate, and Stromberg, Marten. “And one of them slayne, but by whom … he Cannot judge,” The pirate depositions taken by Nathaniel Bacon (1576) at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Edited by Scott Bevill, Caroline Carpenter, Lauren Griffin, John Kuhn, James Lambert, Nate Probasco, and Marten Stromberg. Last updated Oct. 1, 2013. (DOI: https://folgerpedia.folger.edu/mediawiki/media/images_pedia_folgerpedia_mw/e/e4/L.d.669to675.pdf)
• Probasco, Nathan. Review of David Rollison, Commune, Country, and Commonwealth: The People of Cirencester, 1117-1643. In Sixteenth Century Journal 43 (Winter 2012): 1144-45. (DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/SCJ24244991?journalCode=scj)
• Probasco, Nathan. “The Role of Commoners and Print in Elizabethan England’s Acceptance of Firearms.” Journal of Military History 76 (April 2012): 343-72 . (DOI: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/291020230_The_Role_of_Commoners_and_Print_in_Elizabethan_England%27s_Acceptance_of_Firearms)
• Probasco, Nathan. “Virgin America for Barren England: English Colonial History and Literature, 1575-1635.” Literature Compass 9 (June 2012): 406-19 . (DOI: https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-4113.2012.00892.x)
• Probasco, Nathan. Review of James Horn, A Kingdom Strange: The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke. In Sixteenth Century Journal 42 (Fall 2011): 809-10. (DOI: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/SCJ23076514)
• Probasco, Nathan. “Queen Elizabeth’s Reaction to the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.” In The Foreign Relations of Elizabeth I. Edited by Charles Beem, 77-100. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. (DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230118553_4)
• Probasco, Nathan. “Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Elizabeth I, and the Anglo-Spanish Conflict.” Explorations in Renaissance Culture 37 (Summer 2011): 119-35 . (DOI: https://brill.com/view/journals/erc/37/1/article-p119_9.xml)
• Probasco, Nathan. Review of Linda Porter, The First Queen of England: The Myth of “Bloody Mary.” In H-Albion, H-Net Reviews (July 2009). (DOI: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24918)

• Siouxland Magazine “Ten Under 40” Award, 2019
• Moncado Prize for Outstanding Article from the Society for Military History, 2013
• ESPN The Magazine First Team Academic All-American, 2007
• ESPN The Magazine Second Team Academic All-American, 2006

• Probasco, Nathan, Navigating the Northwest Passage in Theory and Practice in Early Modern England. Presented at the James A. Rawley Graduate Student Conference in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. (January 2017)
• Probasco, Nathan, 500 Years of Utopia. Presented at the Briar Cliff University Honors Program Faculty Lecture Series, Sioux City, IA. (January 2016)
• Probasco, Nathan, Sir Thomas More's Utopia at 500: The Renaissance Meets the Age of Discovery. Presented at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Medieval and Renaissance Studies Lecture Series (January 2016)
• Probasco, Nathan, American Bodies and Landscapes in Early English Colonization. Presented at the European Studies Conference, University of Nebraska-Omaha. (January 2015)
• Probasco, Nathan, Hakluyt's Divers Voyages: Insights into his early Writings and Research. Presented at the Exploring the Renaissance: An International Conference, Raleigh, NC (January 2015)
• Probasco, Nathan, The Works of Gods or Men? Native American Trade Objectives and the Anglo-Roanokan Encounter, 1584-1586. Presented at the Society for Renaissance Studies National Conference, York, UK. (January 2010)
• Probasco, Nathan, Catherine de Medici: The Legend of the 'Black Queen' in England. Presented at the Medieval and Renaissance Forum, Plymouth, NH. (January 2009)
• Probasco, Nathan, As the Crow Flies: The Dreams of King Charles IX and their Interpretation in Foxe's Acts and Monuments and Shakespeare's Macbeth. Presented at the Midwest Conference on British Studies, Pittsburgh, PA. (January 2009)