The Late Dr. Clement Price is a professor of history in the African-American Studies Department of Rutgers UniversityโNewark and the director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience. He is a specialist in African-American history and culture, New Jersey African-American history and race relations; and the presentation of historical narratives informed by the black experience.
Dr. Price is the author of two books: Freedom not Far Distant: A Documentary History of Afro-Americans in New Jersey and Many Voices, Many Opportunities: Cultural Pluralism and American Arts Policy. He has written the introduction to the Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and co-authored Small Towns, Black Lives. Dr. Price has also written several articles that examine African-American life and race relations in 20th-century Newark; African-American cultural identity and artistic production during the Negro Era; and he has two edited volumes on the first generation of free blacks in New Jersey.
Dr. Price is also involved in the community on several fronts, most notably, as the president of the Fund for New Jersey, member of the board of trustees of the Newark Library, and member of the Save Ellis Island! Board of trustees. Dr. Price has won several teaching awards including Teacher of the Year at Essex County College, Outstanding Teacher of the Year at Rutgers University-Newark College of Arts and Sciences and Henry J. Browne Outstanding Teacher of the Year, also at Rutgers. In May 2004, Dr. Price was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.