Hunter Price
Associate Professor
About
Dr. Price is Associate Professor of History and has worked at WWU since 2014. His areas of expertise are the American Revolutionary and Civil War eras and early American religious history. His book Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty was published by University of Virginia Press in 2024 as part of their Jeffersonian America series. He is at work on a second book, which examines the prominent 19th-century scientists John and Joseph LeConte, the people they enslaved, and the legacies of both groups in the development of science, environmentalism, and slavery.
Research Interests
- American Revolution, Early American Republic, Civil War Era, American Religion
Selected Publications
Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty (University of Virginia Press, 2024)