Dr. Rebecca A. Buller was the 2009 recipient of the Hewes Award in Geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). The award recognizes Dr. Buller's outstanding dissertation entitled "Intersections of Place, Time and Entertainment in Rural Nebraska in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries." Dr. Buller's research was completed under the supervision of Dr. David Wishart. The Hewes Award honors the memory of Dr. Leslie Hewes, a member of UNL's Geography faculty for nearly 30 years who served as Chair from 1948-1968. Dr. Buller currently serves as a Lecturer in Geography and the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL. She teaches courses in Human Geography, World Regional Geography, Quality of the Environment and has recently developed a new interdisciplinary on-line course entitled Women of the Great Plains.