She also teaches at the University of North Dakota and Dakota College. Skjelver specializes in U.S. and European military history with a focus on the social history of armies in late medieval and early modern Europe, colonial New England, and the American West. Her publications include a novel of colonial warfare entitled Massacre: Daughter of War, and German Hercules: The Impact of Scatology on the Image of Martin Luther as a Man, 1483-1546. Her forthcoming works include a translation of Karl Jakob Skarstein’s The War with the Sioux: Norwegians against Indians, 1862-1863, an anthology of prairie literature, and a series of novels on the world of Martin Luther. Skjelver has won a variety of academic honors and the National Historic Research and Preservation Award from the Daughters of Colonial Wars.