Dr. Joel P. Rhodes is Associate Dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor in the History and Anthropology Department at Southeast Missouri State University.

He taught social studies at Lee’s Summit High School and after graduate school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, came to Southeast Missouri. His teaching and research interests are in Cold War era American social and political history, and the history of children and childhood. Dr. Rhodes serves, or has served, on a number of Boards of Directors including the State Historical Records Advisory Board (appointed by Governor Jay Nixon) and the Missouri Humanities Council.