Clement Alexander Price is Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, Professor of History, and Director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. A native of Washington, D.C., Dr. Price's career is marked by a blend traditional and public intellectual work that brings scholarship and scholars to a cross section of citizens and communities in Greater Newark, New Jersey. He was among the first scholars in Newark to dramatize the role of the public intellectual in ameliorating racial discord, shedding light on historical memory, dignifying the bittersweet narrative of African Americans in modern Newark's history, and leading public and private institutions toward a higher standard of public service.

A graduate of the University of Bridgeport (B.A. and M.A) and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Ph.D.). He is the author of many publications that explore Afro-American History, race relations and modern culture in the United States and in New Jersey, including 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. His commitment to public intellectual work has taken him to an array of civic, cultural, educational and humanities organizations that he has served as Trustee, pro bono consultant, lecturer, consultant and friend , including the Urban League of Essex County (Past Vice Chairman), the New Jersey Council on the Arts (Past Chairman), the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, The Newark Museum (Founding Member, Black Film Festival Selection Committee), the Newark Public Library (Past Vice President and current Chairman of the Transition Committee), the New Jersey Council on the Humanities, (Past Public Humanities Citizen Awardee), the New Jersey Historical Commission, (Past Richard J. Hughes Awardee), the New Jersey Historical Society, (Fellow), the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (Inaugural Scholar in Residence), the Fund for New Jersey (Past President), the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Save Ellis Island Foundation (Current Chairman), the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies (Past Vice Chairman), and the Museum Loan Network.

Dr. Price was the consulting historian for the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority's public arts and history project, The Civil Rights Garden at the historic Carnegie Library in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It is the most significant public commemoration of the Modern Civil Rights Movement in a northern state. Dr. Price is also the most senior member of the Board of Trustees of the Newark Public Library, having served in that capacity for more than twenty years. He is a trustee of the Urban Libraries Council, president of the Newark Public Schools Foundation, and a member of the Scholars Advisory Committee of the African American Museum on the Mall, Smithsonian Institution.

Recently, Dr. Price authored an article for New Jersey Monthly, “Echoes of the Past” which examines the legacy of several historic Black south Jersey towns. He also delivered a lecture in March 2006 entitled, “Race and Preservation” at the Historic Districts Council's 12th annual Preservation Conference. In April 2006, Dr. Price was inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni.

In 1981, along with Giles R. Wright of the New Jersey Historical Commission, Dr. Price founded the Marion Thompson Wright Series, which is one of the nation's foremost scholarly programs devoted to the advancement of the historical literacy of a local community. This year's 26th annual conference, “Black Creativity and Modern American Culture,” was presented at Rutgers-Newark on February 18, 2006.