Clement A. Price

Clement Alexander Price (October 13, 1945 – November 5, 2014) was a distinguished professor at Rutgers University-Newark (RU-N) and longtime resident of Newark, New Jersey. He was named Newark City Historian in 2014, and was celebrated for decades as a historian, teacher, mentor, patron of the arts and humanities, public servant, advisor to leaders at the university and at all levels of government up to and including the White House, and a clear-eyed observer of Newark. Dr. Price began teaching history at RU-N in 1969. Rutgers appointed him Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor in 2002, one of the university’s highest faculty honors, citing his 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,” as well as his “unwavering commitment to the communities in which he lives, and his concern for social justice.” At Rutgers, Price filled many roles, as teacher, mentor, and advisor, and as director of The Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience (IECME), which he founded in 1996.