George Price
 Lecturer Phone: (406) 243-2302 Office: NAC 203E Email: george.price@mso.umt.edu |
Current Office Hours
MWF, 10:15-10:45, 1:00-1:45, and 3:30-5:00
Tu, Th, and MWF after 5:00, by appointment
Background
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 (including Wampanoag, Massachuset, Choctaw, African, French, and Scottish) 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?
Education
Ph. D., Interdisciplinary Studies, concentration in colonial and antebellum African American and Native American history, University of Montana, 2006 M.A. History, University of Montana, 1996 B.A. University of Oregon, 1981
Courses Taught
Class Schedule for Spring, 2011:
(all classes MWF)
9:10-10:00 NAS 100H 01, Intro to Native American Studies, GBB (Gallagher Business Building) 106
11:10-12:00 AAS/HISTA 262 01A & 01B, Abolitionism, FA (Fine Arts) 302
2:10-3:00 NAS 100H 02, Intro to Native American Studies, ULH (Urey Lecture Hall) 101
Teaching Experience
1998 to present; Adjunct Instructor, Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Lecturer, 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/HIST 262, Abolitionism: the First Civil Rights Movement; NAS/AAS 260, African Americans and Native Americans; AAS 372, African American Identity; AAS/HIST 342 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
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
Field of Study
History of early American intercultural relations
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.
Works-in-progress :
Preparing my dissertation, “The Easton Family of Southeast
Two chapters for Heartlines "Parallel Histories" Project, a collaboration of Native American historians on a textbook on Native American history, sponsored by Salish Kootenai College, Pablo, Montana, with a grant from the Kellogg Foundation
Articles:
Encyclopedia Entry: “African American Slavery by American Indians,” for the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Social History, Oxford University Press, 2012
"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.)
Foreword to a book: Foreword to Roger Echo-Hawk, NAGPRA and the Future of Racial Sovereignties, Longmont, Colorado, Roger Echo-Hawk, Kindle Edition, 2011
Publications
Book review for H-SHEAR (online site for the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic). Daniel R. Mandell. Tribe, Race, History: Native Americans in Southern New England, 1780-1880, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008, review published online: June, 2009 http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24811
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
2012 to present: member, Native American Indigenous Studies Association 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.
Professional Experience
2010: University of Montana Chapter of the Mortar Board Society's selected lecturer for the "Last Lecture" series, "The Betrayal of Enlightenment Egalitarianism: How what happened after 1783 led to our present ecological crisis" http://www.cas.umt.edu/facultydatabase/FILES_Faculty/1071/Last Lecture v3.doc
2010: University of Montana NCAA Diversity Compliance Committee
2010: Selected Participant for Heartlines "Parallel Histories" project and workshop, Salish Kootenai College
2010: Black Students Union Black History Month Lecture, “A Brief Illustrated History of Relations Between Native Americans and African Americans in the U.S.” University of Montana
2009: Panelist, Day of Dialogue, “Adjusting: A Frank Discussion Concerning Bicultural Adaptive Strategies for African American Students at the University of Montana”
2009: Panelist on the White(?)House, the meaning of the Obama Presidency, Music Recital Hall, University of Montana
2008: Coordinator and Committee Chair for the Celebration of the 40th Anniversary of African American Studies at The University of Montana
2008: Presenter, Day of Dialogue, “Life After Race: Observations and Discussion on the Multicultural, Intercultural, and Non-Racial future of the U.S. and the World”
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
Hobbies
Gardening, landscaping, hiking, canoeing, listening, reading, writing
