Sonya Fidler
Department Chair, Social Studies
Sonya Fidler teaches Social Studies at
Millard West High School in Omaha, Nebraska, and has been teaching for 25 years in Millard
Public Schools.
Sonya has also taught at the University of Nebraska's Nebraska Scholar's Institute, Stockton University's
(New Jersey) Governor's School on the Environment and Brown University's Watson Institute on International
Studies teacher's workshop for Choices and Capitol Forum. She has been a member of MEA, NSEA and NEA for
26 years, and is a member of the Nebraska State Council of Social Studies and the National Social Studies
Association. Sonya is also a member of the Omaha Committee on Foreign Relations, Nebraskans for Peace,
Amnesty International, the Omaha Metro Chapter of the United Nations Association and Phi Delta Kappa.
Sonya has been honored as the Nebraskan finalist for the NASA Teacher In Space program, and was the
Nebraskan finalist for the Christa McAulliffe Award. Sonya was awarded a Woodrow Wilson History Grant
at Princeton. She was recognized by Red Lobster as the Teacher of the Year 1987-88, and was awarded a
trip to Japan and teacher exchange by Close-Up/Japan Forum. In 1995, Sonya was awarded an NEH grant to
study Islam at Williams College, and in 1997-98 she was a Bosnia Election Supervisor working with OSCE,
NATO and the U.S. State Department. In 1998, Sonya was named Outstanding Social Studies Teacher for the
2nd Congressional District in Nebraska. She was named to the Turner Learning National Faculty in 1999.
Sonya has extensive travel experience, with 16 trips to Europe, including a trip to study Polish Studies
at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. She traveled to Kenya with the Smithsonian, and has been
to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. She traveled to India on a Fulbright-Hays Grant, and went to Japan
and China with NYU.
Sonya received a B.A. from Creighton University and an M.A. from New York University. She is also a Grant
Reader for NEH and the Nebraska Excellence in Education, and is the Nebraska Capitol Forum Lead Teacher.
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Faculty Members
- Betty Ballard - bio
- Paul Balog - bio
- Jeffrey A. Beatty - bio
- Beverly Biber - bio
- Anne Davis - bio
- Barbara Deppner - bio
- Barbara Brown Dierksen - bio
- Sonya Fidler - bio
- Lou Ann Getz - bio
- Kenneth J. Harasty - bio
- Jacqueline Henry - bio
- Joan Horvath - bio
- Lisa E. Kennedy - bio
- Jill Kohler - bio
- Ronda Lee - bio
- Bill McCormick - bio
- Nikki Golar Mouton - bio
- Lorraine B. Palkert - bio
- Carol Pineiro - bio
- Edward Sickles, III - bio
- Andrea Smith-Pearson - bio
- Lois J. Ellis Wolfe - bio
- Colleen P. Wozniak - bio
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