Marcus Witcher, Ph.D.

Expertise

Marcus M. Witcher is a Teaching Assistant Professor of Economic History at West Virginia University where he also serves as Manager of Undergraduate Programs for the Knee Regulatory Research Center. He completed his Ph.D. in history from the University of Alabama in 2017. His first book Getting Right with Reagan: The Struggle for True Conservatism, 1980-2016 was published by the University Press of Kansas in 2019. Witcher is also the co-editor of seven edited collections and has been published in a diverse range of publications including: Reason Magazine, National Review, Modern Age, and the Washington Post. His most recent book, Black Liberation Through the Marketplace: Hope, Heartbreak, and the Promise of America was co-authored with Rachel Ferguson and was published by Emancipation Books in 2022. Witcher is passionate about the history of regulation in the United States. He has published articles on the connection between regulations and racial discrimination. His article "License to Exclude: Black Barbers in Arkansas," co-authored with Tanner Corley and Wendy Lucas, received the James Soltow Award for best paper published in Essays in Economic and Business History in 2023.