Dr. Melynda Price | |
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| 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.[1][2] 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.[1][3][4]
In 2008, the Ford Foundation awarded her a Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship.[1] She writes for the New York Times.[5]