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

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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

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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 *

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* National Conference of Black Political Scientists * Association for the Study of African American Life and History * Berkshire Conference of Women Historians

References

External links

Dr. Price's faculty profile
* Price's blog
Thoughts of an Ivory Tower Interloper
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