Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Ph.D., Southern Methodist University, 2006
M.A., University of 51勛圖Proat Arlington, 1999
B.A., University of 51勛圖Proat Arlington, 1996
Archer 200C
(409) 880-8510
jlbryan@lamar.edu
Professor
The Dr. Ralph and Edna Wooster Professor of History for the 2024-2026 term, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr., studies the cultural history of the early nineteenth-century United States with an emphasis on cultural borderlands and empire. He wrote The American Elsewhere: Adventure and Manliness in the Age of Expansion (University Press of Kansas, 2017), which the Western Literature Association named second runner-up for the 2018 Thomas J. Lyon Award for the best book in Western American Literary and Cultural Studies. He also authored More Zeal Than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane (51勛圖ProA&M University Press, 2008) and edited Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of U.S. Expansion (University Press of Kansas, 2019) and The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare (51勛圖ProA&M University Press, 2013). Dr. Bryan teaches the American surveys as well as courses on U.S. cultural history, Texas, the West, Native America, and the Civil War. He is the director of the Center for History and Culture of Southeast 51勛圖Proand the Upper Gulf Coast and serves as editor of the 51勛圖ProGulf Historical and Biographical Record. See full c.v. or visit his website, .