NEWS: Updated May 8, 2011
● OP Ed piece on Intelligent
Design and politics, Star-Ledger April 19, 2012, page 17.
Find me on LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brian-regal/13/49/606
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My CV/Resume Course offerings for Summer I 2012 HIST4990:14 Senior Seminar M-Th, 8:30am T117 (seminar room) Fall 2012 HIST1062:03 Worlds of History - Saturday 9am EC143
HIST1062:04 Worlds of History
- Thursday 4:30pm STEM308 HIST3854:01 History of Pseudoscience in America - Monday 4:30pm STEM307 _____________
New Book:
Select Articles: • “Richard Owen and the Sea-Serpent,” Endeavour 36:2 (June, 2012):65-68.
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“Stealing Down the Road
to Perdition,” Report, National Center for Science Education
30:1-2 (Jan-Apr, 2010):19-20.
• "Were Have all the Werewolves
Gone?" Fortean Times FT259 (March 2010).
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"Entering Dubious
Realms: Grover Krantz, Science and Sasquatch"
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Review
of Kirk Cameron and Ray Comfort's anti-evolution board game • "Amateur versus Professional: The Search for Bigfoot" article on monster hunting and the history of science in America: Endeavour, June 2008.
• A
visit to the Creation Mega Conference - 2005 ______________ Media appearances:
• Times of India
"Is it time to bury the Yeti myth?" February 19, 2012, my opinions on
the continued hunt for such elusive creatures. • Interview with EWP Podcast (Eastern Washington Paranormal) hosts Nick Page and Gregg Wright http://www.ewppodcast.com/
• Wall Street Journal,
October 25, 2011 (Front page article) "Bigfoot Hunters Detect Signs of the Hairy
Beast in Siberia," reference to me and the Russian Yeti hunt.
• The Guardian, Op Ed piece on Russian Yeti
hunting, October 12, 2011
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Interview on
Radio Ireland, NewsTalk Radio and the Sean Moncrieff Show
• Eccentricity and Natural
History Oxford University Museum for the History of Science
Lecture Series/Pod Cast, July 19, 2011
• Skeptic Magazine/Monster Talk
pod cast interview on Searching for Sasquatch,
• CNN Why do we need to
believe in Bigfoot?
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Skeptic Magazine/Monster
Talk
pod cast Halloween interview on Darwin and Monsters
with hosts Blake Smith, Ben
Radford, and Dr. Karen Stollznow.
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WIRED.IT
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Science
• USAToday
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Naked
Science Radio interview. • Discovery Channel (on-line) article on the Georgia Bigfoot, with my comments. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/15/bigfoot-sasquatch-hoax.html ___________
___________________________ My introduction to The Autobiography of Charles Darwin (2005) plagiarized by anti-evolutionist fundamentalists
Salon.Com
My reaction in the
Report of the National Center for Science Education
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My research: The broad scope of my research concerns the history of human origins. My focus is less on human evolution itself than on an intellectual historical study of how scientific theories are constructed, and then perceived and used in popular culture, religion, and politics for extra-scientific ends. My first book Henry Fairfield Osborn: Race and the Search for the Origins of Man (2002) is an attempt to unravel the complex and contradictory nature of a theory of human evolution which was simultaneously scientific and religious and which was designed to show more than just where the first humans arose, but how American society should be ordered. Human Evolution: a guide to the debates (2004) takes an interdisciplinary approach by including such topics as popular culture, eugenics and creationism along with traditional aspects of evolution history to show the interconnected aspect of human origin studies and how they go beyond finding fossils, isolating DNA, and dating strata. As an historian of science I am particularly interested in the relationship between professional scientists and their amateur counterparts. I write about how the fringe and mainstream interact, co-mingle and argue, whether it is over the creation/evolution debate or American national origins theories. My most recent book is an historical analysis of the lives of mainstream scientists--particularly the controversial paleoanthropologist Grover Krantz (1931-2002)--who believed anomalous primates like the Sasquatch and Yeti were real animals, not just relics of folklore or hoaxes. I accessed archives and libraries of North America and England using long forgotten letters, correspondence, diaries, and notebooks of scientists who researched humanoid monsters. The results of this research has been published as Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads and Cryptozoology by Palgrave-Macmillan. My current research project is to chart how the engagement with monstrous creatures--whether to prove them real or not--contributed to the development of 19th century evolutionary theory. The working title is Darwin and the Monsters.
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