Richard Price

Duane A. and Virginia S. Dittman Professor of American Studies

Office: Washington 122
Phone: 757-221-1058
Email: [[rspric]]

Background

He joined the William & Mary faculty in 1994. Previously, he served as founding chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University and General Editor of JHU Press' Studies in Atlantic History and Culture, and has taught at Yale, Minnesota, Stanford, Florida, Illinois, the Federal University of Bahia, the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and the University of Paris.

Research Interests

His research interests span Afro-America, from Brazil through the Caribbean to the United States.

Publications

His many books include First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People (winner of the Elsie Clews Parson Prize of the American Folklore Society), Alabi's World (winner of the J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology, the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, and the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Prize of the Caribbean Studies Association), and The Convict and the Colonel: A Story of Colonialism, Resistance, and Memory in the Caribbean, 2^nd edition Duke University Press, 2006. With Sally Price, he has written, among other books, Enigma Variations: A Novel (Harvard University Press, 1995), a mystery about forgery in the ethnographic art market, Maroon Arts: Cultural Vitality in the African Diaspora (Beacon Press, 1999), Les Marrons (Vents d'ailleurs, 2003), The Root of Roots; Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2003), and most recently Romare Bearden: The Caribbean Dimension (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). His newest book is Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

 His most recent book is Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination (University of Chicago Press, 2008), winner of the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion. His current book project concerns Saramaka Maroons and international human rights law.

Education

Richard Price received his PhD from Harvard in 1970.

Courses Taught

He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on resistance to slavery, on ethnography, and on ethnographic history.

Honors, Prizes, and Awards

Elsie Clews Parson Prize of the American Folklore Society for First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People and the J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology, the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, and the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Prize of the Caribbean Studies Association for Alabi's World.

Elsie Clews Parson Prize of the American Folklore Society for First-Time: The Historical Vision of an Afro-American People, the J. I. Staley Prize in Anthropology, the Albert J. Beveridge Award of the American Historical Association, and the Gordon K. Lewis Memorial Prize of the Caribbean Studies Association for Alabi's World, and the 2008 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, the 2009 Gordon K. and Sybil Lewis Memorial Award for Caribbean Scholarship, and the 2009 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion for Travels with Tooy.