Professor Clement A. Price, Ph.D., is a member of the department of history at Rutgers University in Newark. He has taught urban history, public history, African-American history and the history of New Jersey for over three decades at Rutgers. In 1999 he was named CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Professor of the Year for New Jersey, and more recently he earned one of the highest faculty honors at the university when he was named Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor of History. The latter honor noted Price’s dedication “to the ideas of community, and his sustained impact on the development of cultural, civic, educational and academic institutions in the City of Newark and the State of New Jersey” and his “unwavering commitment to the communities in which he lives, and his concern for social justice.”

In addition to his teaching, service and research at Rutgers, Price has played leadership roles with many organizations in New Jersey, including the New Jersey Historical Commission, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, The Fund for New Jersey, the Newark public schools, the Newark Black Film Festival, and the Governor’s Commission on Ellis Island. Price is widely known as the preeminent scholar of Newark’s social history, and he is a longtime resident of the city. He is the founder and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience, which conducts research and presents innovative public programs on a wide range of topics of concern to New Jersey’s citizens.