Brian Regal

BRIAN REGAL, PhD. FLS

History of Science

Kean University

SOME CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

* National Science Foundation (NSF) human evolution grant reviewer

* Invitee and participant to the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Summer Seminar in Human Origins, 2001

* Two year fellowship, Mary Baker Eddy Papers Project, 1999-2001

* Award winning publication in the history of science in America favorably reviewed by noted scholars in the field

* Elected Fellow Linnean Society of London

* Army veteran, 1978-1986

Books

* Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads & Cryptzoology (Palgrave-McMillan, 2013).

* Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, October, 2009).

* Icons of Evolution (Greenwood Press, January, 2008).

* Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates (ABC-CLIO: December, 2004).

* Henry Fairfield Osborn, Race and the Search for the Origins of Man (London: Ashgate Press,

2002). Nominated for the 2003 History of Science Society, Pfizer Award. Winner of the Bela Kornitzer Award for best book by a Drew University Alumnus for 2005.

Articles

* “Richard Owen and the Sea-Serpent,” Endeavour 36:2 (June, 2012):65-68.

* "From Wild Man to Monster: the Historical Evolution of Bigfoot in New York State," Voices: the Journal of New York Folklore 35: 3-4 (Fall-Winter 2009):13-15. Co-written with Robert E. Bartholomew.

* "Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz, Science and Sasquatch," Annals of Science 66:1 (January 09).

* "A Box Full of Ironies," review of the anti-evolution game Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design, In Endeavour 32:3 (September 2008):81-82.

* "Amateur Versus Professional: The Search for Bigfoot," Endeavour 32:2 (June 2008):53-57.

* "New York and the Origins of the Evolution/Creation Controversy," Social Science Docket 7:1 (Winter-Spring 2007): 19. In the "Evolution, Intelligent Design, and Religion in the Social Studies Classroom" special edition.

* "Henry Fairfield Osborn," New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol 5 (2007):354-356.

* "Dem Ole Dry Bones," Fortean Times 202 (October, 2005): 57.

* "Maxwell Perkins and Madison Grant: Eugenics Publishing at Scribners," Princeton University Library

Chronicle LXV: 2 (Winter, 2004):317-341.

Book Introductions

* The Darwin Compendium (Barnes & Nobles, October, 2005).

* The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (Barnes & Noble: January, 2004).

Reviews

* Marianne Sommer, "Bones and Ochre: the Curious Afterlife of the Red Lady of Paviland," Isis 100:1

(2009): 188-189.

* "A Box Full of Ironies," review of the anti-evolution game Evolution Vs. Intelligent Design, In Endeavour

32:3 (September 2008):81-82.

* Noel Keith Roberts, "From Piltdown Man to Point Omega: the evolutionary theory of Teilhard De

Chardin," Isis 95:3 (September, 2004): 514.

* Leonard Warren, "Joseph Leidy: The Last Man Who Knew Everything" Configurations 8:3 (Fall 2000):

423-425.

CURRENT POSITION:

Kean University

Department of History

History of Science, Technology & Medicine

Union, NJ 07083

USA

2007 - present

For more info see web page: https://sites.google.com/a/kean.edu/brian-regal-phd/Home