PriceFest 2025 Digital Archive

On 18 and 19 April 2025, a group of scholars met at Tulane University’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies in New Orleans to celebrate the work and lives of Richard and Sally Price. There was much to celebrate: the Prices’ more than five decades of scholarly publications and activism on behalf of the Saamaka Maroons of Suriname; their huge corpus of work spanning the fields of anthropology, history, art history, museum studies, and more; their decades of mentorship of students and junior colleagues; many decades of service as book review editors for the premier Caribbean studies journal New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids. Some twenty participants offered equally wide-ranging tributes, some in a scholarly register and others more personal, but all in recognition of one of academia’s greatest and most fruitful pairings.
Rich and Sally: we salute you!

This site serves as an archive of PriceFest 2025, including texts of the tributes delivered by participants along with select images and video clips. We also include links to the Prices’ “greatest hits” and to their own website. Explore and enjoy! And special thanks to all who participated and helped to make this one-of-a-kind scholarly event an archive-worthy success. Funding was generously supplied by Tulane’s Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin American Studies, a beacon of hope in distressing times.