Presented By: Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
DAAS African American Workshop “Why the Death Penalty Still Matters in Black Lives”
Melynda Price, Robert E. Harding, Jr. Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law and the Director of African American and Africana Studies program
Melynda Price's research focuses on race 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. She is the author of At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Oxford University Press, 2015). She has been published in the Iowa Law Review, the Michigan Journal of Race and Law and other legal journals as well as the New York Times, Tidal Basin Review and Pluck! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts and Culture. She also blogs at ivorytowerinterloper.blogspot.com. Professor Price has a doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. In addition to her degree in political science, she also earned a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and studied Physics as an undergraduate at Prairie View A&M University. She is a native of Houston, Texas.
Booksigning and reception to follow lecture
Booksigning and reception to follow lecture
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