Bryan Le Beau

Host and Interviewer

Bryan Le Beau is Professor of History and Dean of College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He earned his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from New York University in 1983.

Le Beau's research and teaching interests are United States cultural and religious history. He has published widely on those subjects, including six books, six edited collections, and numerous articles, chapters, and essays. His books include: Food, Society, and Environment (2003, Prentice Hall), Currier and Ives: America Imagined (2001, Smithsonian Institution Press), Religion in America to 1865 (2000, Edinburgh University Press and New York University Press), The Story of the Salem Witch Trials (1998, Prentice Hall), and Jonathan Dickinson and the Formative Years of American Presbyterianism (1997, University of Kentucky Press).