George Price - Adjunct Assistant Professor of Native American Studies and African American Studies
Office Location: LA 259 |
Current Position:
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Native American Studies Department and African American Studies Program
Description:
George Price listens, learns, contemplates, studies, and teaches. He lives with his wife, Barbara, and two of their seven grandchildren on the Flathead Indian Reservation, north of Missoula, Montana. He is an American of several diverse ethnic and cultural ancestries who has explored human identity issues for all of his life, both personally and professionally. Some questions that he patiently seeks to find answers for (in due time, without anxiety): What are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Field Of Study:
History of early American intercultural relations
Research Interests:
- Colonial and antebellum African American and Native American history, human rights
- The service records and narratives of soldiers and sailors of color in the American Revolution
- The intellectual, cultural, and spiritual origins of American egalitarianism
Hobbies:
Gardening, landscaping, hiking, canoeing, listening, reading, writing
Education:
- Ph. D., Interdisciplinary Studies, concentration in colonial and antebellum African American and Native American history, University of Montana, 2006
- M.A. History,
Teaching Experience:
- 1998 to present; Adjunct Instructor and Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Montana, Native American Studies and (beginning in Fall of 1999) African American Studies
- Courses taught at UM: NAS 100, Introduction to Native American Studies; and NAS 202, Oral and Written Traditions; AAS 220, Search for Identity; AAS 288, Abolitionism: the First Civil Rights Movement; AAS 295, African Americans and Native Americans; AAS 372, African American Identity; AAS/HIST 378 and 379, African American History
- 1995 to 1999; Adjunct Instructor, Salish Kootenai College, Native American Studies, American History, Sociology, Indigenous Economics
- 1985-1995; Art and History Teacher, Two Eagle River School, Pablo, Montana
Selected Publications:
To Heal the Scourge of Prejudice: the Life and Writings of Hosea Easton , George R. Price and James Brewer Stewart, eds., University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Book-in-progress : a biographical history of the Eastons, an American tri-racial family with a strong social activist tradition extending over three centuries
"The Roberts Case, the Easton Family, and the Dynamics of the Abolitionist Movement in Massachusetts, 1776-1870,” co-authored with JamesBrewer Stewart for theMassachusetts Historical Review, Fall, 2002
“Afro/Native Historiography: Finding Relevance Outside the Eurocentric Tradition,” Trinity Reporter, Special Edition, Dec., 2005, Providence, Rhode Island, Trinity Repertory Company
“Hosea Easton: Forgotten Abolitionist ‘Giant’,” chapter in Michael A.Morrison, ed., The Human Tradition in Antebellum America, Wilmington, Delaware, Scholarly Resources, 2000 (This article was reprinted in 2002 for another edition in this same series, The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction at the request of the editor, Charles W.Calhoun.)
Publications:
Book Review: Theda Perdue, “Mixed Blood” Indians: Racial Reconstruction inThe Early South, for the Journal of the Early Republic, Summer, 2003
"Indigenous Economics Instructor's Workshop: "Tools for Shaping the Economic Future," in Business Alert, Vol. 11, No. 4, July/August, 1996.
Affiliations:
- 1997 to present; member, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
- 2001-2004; Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
- 1999; Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars, from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
- 2001 to 2005; member, Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.
- 1993-1995; board member, Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition
Professional Experience:
2008: Coordinator and Committee Chair for the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of African American Studies at The University of Montana
2008: Workshop presentation on "Challenges of Bringing Indigenous Cultural Perspectives into the Public School Science Classrooom," for the Big Sky Science Partnership workshop at Salish Kootenai College
2007: Two gallery lectures at the Missoula Art Museum,in conjunction with the Faith Ringgold exhibit: “Black Art, Black Identity: the world from which Faith Ringgold emerged,” and “The Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement”
2006; Keynote speaker for Missoula’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
2006; Presentation on Native American genealogy to the Western Montana Genealogical Society, at the Missoula Public Library
2005 and 2006; Juror for the Daughters of the American Revolution, Bitterroot Valley Chapter American Citizenship Scholarship Awards for local graduating high school students
2005; Martin Luther King Jr. Day presenter and workshop leader for UM Office of Civic Engagement and the Western Montana Volunteer Center
2005; Juror/Reader for two articles for the American Indian Culture and ResearchJournal
2004; Keynote speaker, “Afro/Native American Relations in the United States,” for Native American Heritage Month at Northern Kentucky University
2004; “How I Teach the Introduction to Native American Studies,” presentation to the “Why Study Native America?,” TERRACE Workshop forTeachers at the University of Montana
2004; “People of Color in the Antebellum Northeast” Workshop presentation:, for the “Teaching U.S. History” summer institute for the Missoula County Public Schools
2003; “African Americans in the Constitutional Period,” workshop presentation for Missoula County Schools history and social studiesteachers at the “Teaching American History” summer institute
2003; “James Easton: Living the Ideals of the American Revolution,” paper presention at the Southern Conference on African American Studies, in Charleston, South Carolina
2001; “Theories of Marginality and Identity: Attitudes of Marginalized Peoples Towards Marginalized Others,” paper presented at the Native American Studies Conference at the University of Montana
2001; Public lecture; “Race: Social Idea, or Biological Fact?” sponsored by the Bitterroot Human Rights Alliance
2001; Speech for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Celebration, sponsored by Jeanette Rankin Peace Center, NAS, AAS, et al
2000; Public lecture; “Either, Both, or Neither: African/Native American Ancestries and History,” co-sponsored by the UC Multicultural Alliance and the Department of Native American Studies
1999-2000; Consultant, contact person, and session moderator for the Five Rivers Festival of Film, “American Indians and the Mythic West,” held at the University of Montana, Sept., 2000
1999; Panelist, “Teaching Ethics in Native American Higher Education,” symposium sponsored by the Practical Ethics Center, University of Montana
1997; Co-Presenter, with James B. Stewart of our co-authored paper, “HoseaEaston and Racial Modernity” to the annual conference of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, at Penn State University
1997; Participant in the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History seminar “Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad” at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
1996; Presenter, “Teaching Cultural Diversity; Pros and Cons,” at the 7th Annual Conference of the Montana Human Rights Network, Great Falls, MT
1995; Public Lecture; “The History of African/Native American Relations inNew England and Indian Territory,” at Salish Kootenai College
