Brian Regal

Brian Regal is an American historian of science, skeptic and writer. He is associate professor of the history of science at Kean University in New Jersey.[1][2]

Regal is the author of Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads and Cryptozoology a scholarly study on cryptozoology.[3][4][5] He has also written on the history of the Jersey Devil.[6][7]

Publications

Books

  • Henry Fairfield Osborn, Race and the Search for the Origins of Man (London: Ashgate Press, 2002)
  • Human Evolution: A Guide to the Debates (ABC-CLIO, 2004)
  • Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, 2009)
  • Icons of Evolution (Greenwood Press, 2008)
  • Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads and Cryptozoology (Palgrave, 2011)
  • The Secret History of the Jersey Devil: How Quakers, Hucksters, and Benjamin Franklin Created a Monster (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)[8]

Papers

  • Richard Owen and the Sea-Serpent. Endeavour 36:2 (June, 2012): 65-68.
  • Entering Dubious Realms: Grover Krantz, Science and Sasquatch. Annals of Science (January, 2009): 66: 1.
  • Amateur versus Professional: The Search for Bigfoot. Endeavour 32:2 (June, 2008): 53-57.
gollark: Or is there also some humanities-y option which you're just not doing?
gollark: Over here you choose post-16 school subjects somewhat.
gollark: Fascinating.
gollark: What subjects do you do?
gollark: You cannot "guarantee" things as much as make the probability quite high.

References
  1. "Brian Regal". The Guardian.
  2. "Episode Notes for History of the Jersey Devil". MonsterTalk.
  3. Normandin, Sebastian. (2012). Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology by Brian Regal. The British Journal for the History of Science. Vol. 45, No. 4, Special Issue: British Nuclear Culture. pp. 699-700.
  4. Ritvo, Harriet. (2015). Brian Regal. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. The American Historical Review 120 (2): 586-587.
  5. Searching for Sasquatch: Crackpots, Eggheads, and Cryptozoology. Palgrave Macmillan.
  6. "The Devil’s in the details". The Observer.
  7. "Brian Regal". Skeptical Inquirer.
  8. "New and Notable". Skeptical Inquirer. Committee for Skeptical Inquirer. 42 (4): 61. 2018.
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