| Dr.Melynda Price | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Robert E. Harding, Jr. Professor of Law and the Director of the African American and Africana Studies Program |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Prairie View A&M University & The University of Texas School of Law |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Law |
| Sub-discipline | African American and Africana Studies and Gender and Women's Studies |
| Institutions | University of Kentucky |
Dr. Melynda J. Price is the Robert E. Harding, Jr. Professor of Law and the Director of the African American and Africana Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Her research focuses on race, gender and citizenship, the politics of punishment and the role of law in the politics of race and ethnicity in and bordering the U.S.
In 2008, the Ford Foundation awarded her a Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship. She writes for the New York Times.
Bibliography
- 2015: At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Oxford University Press)
- 2009: Performing Discretion or Discrimination: Race, Ritual, and Peremptory Challenges in Capital Jury Selection, Michigan Journal of Race and Law
- 2008: Balancing Lives: Individual Accountability and the Death Penalty as Punishment for Genocide (Lessons from Rwanda), Emory International Law Journal
- 2006: Litigating Salvation: Race, Religion, and Innocence in the Cases of Karla Faye Tucker and Gary Graham, Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice
Professional memberships
- Texas Bar Association
- American Association of Law School
- Law and Society Association
- American Political Science Association
- National Conference of Black Political Scientists
- Association for the Study of African American Life and History
- Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
References
- ^ "Melynda J. Price | African American & Africana Studies". aaas.as.uky.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- "Professor Melynda Price Named Next Gaines Center Director | UK College of Law". law.uky.edu. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- Hickerson, Shannon. "UK law professor kicks off annual Women Writers Conference". The Kentucky Kernel. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- "Teen Mom 2: Brittany DeJesus Slams Kailyn Lowry's "Ratchet" Comment About Briana". In Touch Weekly. 2018-05-23. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
- "Polygamy as a Democratic Right". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
External links
- Dr. Price's faculty profile
- Price's blog "Thoughts of an Ivory Tower Interloper"
- American women legal scholars
- American legal scholars
- African-American legal scholars
- American women academics
- American women lawyers
- 21st-century African-American lawyers
- 21st-century American lawyers
- University of Kentucky faculty
- Prairie View A&M University alumni
- University of Texas alumni
- University of Michigan alumni
- Activists from Kentucky
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century African-American writers
- 21st-century African-American women writers
- Living people
- 21st-century African-American academics
- 21st-century American academics