Melynda Price

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.

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