Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law
Melynda Price is the Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the African American and Africana Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Price is the author of At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Oxford University Press, 2015). Her work has been published in both peer-reviewed social science and law journal, newspapers and literary journals.
Professor Price joined the UK College of Law as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2006 after completing the doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation was awarded the 2007 Best Dissertation Award from the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. In addition to her degree in political science, she also earned a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2002. While at the University of Texas, she was a member of the Texas International Law Journal and was awarded both the University of Texas Coop Award for Public Interest Law and the Baron and Budd Scholarship for Public Interest Law. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics at Prairie View A&M University in 1995.
Professor Price’s research focuses on race, gender and citizenship, the politics of punishment and the role of law in the politics of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and at its borders. In 2008, she was awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her host institution was the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law.
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About Melynda J. Price J.D., Ph.D.
Melynda Price is the Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the African American and Africana Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Price is the author of At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Oxford University Press, 2015). Her work has been published in both peer-reviewed social science and law journal, newspapers and literary journals.
Professor Price joined the UK College of Law as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2006 after completing the doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. Her dissertation was awarded the 2007 Best Dissertation Award from the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. In addition to her degree in political science, she also earned a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2002. While at the University of Texas, she was a member of the Texas International Law Journal and was awarded both the University of Texas Coop Award for Public Interest Law and the Baron and Budd Scholarship for Public Interest Law. She completed her undergraduate studies in Physics at Prairie View A&M University in 1995.
Professor Price’s research focuses on race, gender and citizenship, the politics of punishment and the role of law in the politics of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and at its borders. In 2008, she was awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her host institution was the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law.
| Present | Robert E. Harding, Jr. Associate Professor of Law, University of Kentucky ‐ College of Law | |
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| Director of the African American and Africana Studies Program, University of Kentucky ‐ College of Arts and Sciences | ||
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Disciplines
Research Interests
| 2006 | Ph.D., University of Michigan - Ann Arbor ‐ Political Science | |
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| 2002 | J.D., University of Texas at Austin ‐ School of Law | |
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| 1995 | B.S., Prairie View A&M University | |
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Contact Information
University of Kentucky
College of Law
620 S. Limestone
Lexington, KY 40506-0048