Brian James Leech

Brian Leech is a Montana native and an Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College in

Rock Island, Illinois. He completed a PhD in American history at the University of Wisconsin-

Madison and currently serves as Secretary of the Mining History Association. Leech has won a few awards for his writing, including the 2012 Vivian Paladin Award for the best article published in the Montana: The Magazine of Western History. At Augustana, he teaches courses in regional history, environmental history, public history, oral history, and food studies.