Casey Price

Casey Price is a Teaching Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, specializing in Vast Early America with a focus on cartography and the Native South, particularly Cherokee history within settler colonial contexts.

His educational background includes:

• MA in History from the University of Tennessee (2023)
• PhD in History from the University of Tennessee (expected 2025)

Price's research examines how cartography facilitated settler colonialism in Cherokee homelands (1682-1810), emphasizing Indigenous and African participation in mapmaking. He argues that incremental land tenure changes transformed cultural identity and social structures more profoundly than military violence, currently collaborating with Cherokee speakers to reconstruct digital maps using oral traditions and historical toponyms.

His scholarly impact is evidenced by these major recognitions:

• National Endowment for the Humanities’ Summer Institute at the Newberry Library
• 2023-2024 Fellowships from The Omohundro Institute, John Carter Brown Library, Clements Library, and Filson Historical Society
• Native American Rights Fellowship (Library Company of Philadelphia/Pennsylvania Historical Society)
• Phillips Fund for Native American Research (American Philosophical Society)
• Archie K. Davis Fellowship (North Caroliniana Society)
• FEEGI Fellowship
• UTK Center for the Study of War and Society Fellowship
• UTK Humanities Center Dissertation Completion Fellowship

Price integrates digital humanities with Indigenous knowledge to redefine colonial encounter narratives, with ongoing work expected to deepen understanding of land, identity, and resistance in early America.