Rutgers Newark Gets $2M Grant To Honor Legacy Of Clement Price

Rutgers Newark professor and city historian Clement A. Price may be gone, but his legacy lives on.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently awarded Rutgers University – Newark a $2 million challenge grant to create an endowed chair honoring Price’s legacy, the school announced on its website.

“The Clement A. Price Endowed Chair in Public History and Humanities is intended to attract a distinguished interdisciplinary scholar of the highest caliber who will also be named Director of the Clement A. Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience,” a university release stated.

“We are deeply honored by the foundation’s decision to create this new chair at Rutgers University–Newark perpetuating the legacy of a member of the community who so personified the city in which he studied, taught, and lived, but whose scholarship and teaching resonate powerfully nationwide,” Chancellor Nancy Cantor stated.

Price was the founding director of the Rutgers Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, co-founder of the annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, chaired President Obama’s 2008 transition team for the National Endowment for the Humanities and was vice chair of the President’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

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