Bryan Edward Stone is an award-winning community college professor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he teaches courses in U.S. History. He was named a 2024 Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, which recognizes ten Texas college and university faculty annually. He also received the 2024 Western Regional Faculty Member Award from the Association of Community College Trustees and the 2019 Aileen Creighton Award for Teaching Excellence and 2021 Teacher of the Year Award from Del Mar College.
Bryan is the author of The Chosen Folks: Jews on the Frontiers of Texas (University of Texas Press, 2010), which won the Southern Jewish Historical Society Book Prize in 2011. He is also the editor of Neither Fish nor Fowl: A Mercantile Jewish Family on the Rio Grande, the memoir of Morris S. Riskind, a Jewish retailer and lay religious leader in the border community of Eagle Pass, Texas, and of Alexander Gurwitz’s Memories of Two Generations: A Yiddish Life in Russia and Texas (University of Alabama Press, 2016), which recounts the life of a Jewish teacher and Talmud scholar who migrated to San Antonio in 1910. Bryan is the managing editor of the annual peer-reviewed journal Southern Jewish History, and his current research focuses on Jewish immigrants who arrived in the United States through the port of Galveston in the early twentieth century.
Bryan is a Dallas native. He earned a Ph.D. in American Studies and a bachelor’s in English from the University of Texas as well as a master’s in English from the University of Virginia. He lives in Corpus Christi with his wife, Shannon, and a houseful of rescue cats.
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