David Price

David Price is a cultural anthropologist and a professor of anthropology and sociology at St. Martin's University, in Lacey, Washington, where he has taught since 1994. He teaches a variety of classes that are all connected by anthropology and ethnography. He has conducted cultural anthropological and archaeological fieldwork and research in Yemen, Israel, Egypt and the Pacific Northwest. He received his B.A. from The Evergreen State College (1983), and his M.A. from the University of Chicago (1985). Price received his doctorate from the University of Florida's Department of Anthropology in 1993 and wrote his dissertation on the evolution of irrigation in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis. 

Professor Price is currently using the Freedom of Information Act, archival sources, and interviews to write historical accounts of various interactions between military and intelligence agencies on American anthropology. This is a broad project and examines a variety of interactions between anthropologists and organizations such as the CIA, FBI, NSA, OSS and other governmental agencies.