Area of Interest:

Charles Price's research interests converge around identity formation, welfare and access to higher education, community organizations and community organizing, ethnographically-grounded oral history, and advocacy and collaborative research projects. Charles's current research is based in Jamaica and the United States.<p>Black Identity; Social Identity , Welfare and Higher Education Policies, Oral History, Advocacy Research, Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean, the United States</p>

Education:

Ph.D, 2001, City University of New York

Research & Activities:

Current Research Activities and Plans
In Jamaica, Charles's ongoing work involves documenting the early phases of the Rastafari movement through life stories, and focusing on social and racial identity formation among the first two generations of Rastafari in Jamaica. He is also an official representative of the Rastafari Centralization Organization, Kingston, Jamaica. Recent publications on the Rastafari include "Political and Radical Aspects of the Rastafarian Movement," in Nature, Society and Thought (2000) and "The Development and Co-Optation of an Antisystemic Identity," Identity
(2003).

Presently, Charles is one of three site evaluators of a Ford Foundation-sponsored project focused on building capacity in community organizations that do community organizing. This project is spread across seven southern states, and two cities, Los Angeles and Chicago. Charles also works on policy issues surrounding welfare and access to higher education, and has published research reports on the subject, including "Coalition-Building and State TANF Policy" (1999), "Proceedings of the National Conference: Welfare Reform and the College Option" (1999), and "Still Committed to the Higher Education Option: Model State, College and Advocacy Organizations that Support Welfare Recipients Going to College (2003. He produced a video, "Welfare Reform and the College Option: Perspectives on the Issues" (2002). In July 2003 Charles was invited to participate in a briefing of senior Senate staff on the role of postsecondary education policy in the reauthorization of welfare reform. A link to the research reports is below.

Link to the Howard Samuels State Management & Policy Center:
http://web.gc.cuny.edu/howardsamuels/

Charles plans to develop workshops that assists community organizations in documenting how their work affects their staff, communities, and public policy. This will be part of a larger project that combines research with community-relevant activities and training community residents how to do basic research.

Charles has taught at Queens College-CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies, and Long Island University's Community Outreach Program.

Courses Taught: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology; General Anthropology (4 field); Introduction to Human Evolution; World Development, People, and Contemporary Social Issues and Problems; Introduction to Sociology; Urban Society; Political Sociology.

Courses Planned: Ethnography & Life Stories; Community Development and Community Organizations; Racial Formation in Jamaica and the United States.

Selected Fellowships & Awards

2002 Diversity Scholarship, Oral History Association
2001-02 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of North
Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology
1999 Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, City University of New York
Graduate School
1997 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition, Honorable Mention
1996 Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers
1992-96 President's Fellow, City University of New York Graduate School

Selected Fellowships & Awards
1999 Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, CUNY Graduate School
1997 Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship Competition, Honorable Mention
1996 Listed in Who's Who Among America's Teachers
1992-96 President's Fellow, CUNY Graduate Center
1991-92 Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow, University of South Florida
1987 Outstanding Student in sociology/anthropology, The College of Charleston