7pm Wednesday May 13, 2009, Resistencia Bookstore, casa de Red Salmon Arts 1801-A South First St., Austin, Tejas

Red Salmon Arts presents The Death Penalty and the Modern Meaning of Southern Justice: a platica/discussion with Melynda Price Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law

Melynda Price teaches in the areas of torts, immigration, law and social science and law and popular culture. Her research focuses on citizenship, punishment and the role of law in the politics of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and its borders. In 2006, Price completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Michigan. She was awarded the 2006 Best Dissertation Award by the Race, Ethnicity and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.

She is currently completing a book, At the Cross: Race, Religion, and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty Among African Americans. Price also has a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law and an undergraduate degree from Prairie View A&M University.

Her most recent publication is Litigating Salvation: Race, Religion, and Innocence in the Cases of Karla Faye Tucker and Gary Graham in the University of Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice. Price has a forthcoming publication on the death penalty and the pursuit of justice in the Rwandan genocide, Balancing Lives: Individual Accountability and the Death Penalty as Punishment for Genocide (Lessons from Rwanda) in the Emory International Law Journal. She serves on the Board of the Kentucky Equal Justice Center. She is a native of Houston, Texas.