J. Ricky Price

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Law
Phone:(585) 385-5269
Certifications:

Apple Teacher

Education:

B.A. Whitman College, Walla Walla WA
M.A.; M.Phil.; Ph.D. The New School for Social Research, New York, NY

Ricky holds a Ph.D. in politics from the New School for Social Research in NYC. He is currently an assistant professor of political science and public law at St. John Fisher University in Rochester, NY. His work integrates the politics of identity, institutions, and science to understand how power operates between our bodies and the state. He specializes in new institutionalism, science and technology studies, and feminist and queer theory. He serves on the organizing committee of the Ann Snitow Prize, and he is also a member of the Climate Social Science Network. 

Courses Taught

  • Intro to American Government (Fall 2021, Fall 2022)
  • New York State & Local Politics (Fall 2021)
  • Politics of Pandemics (Fall 2021)
  • Intro to Public Policy (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
  • Judicial Behavior (Spring 2022)
  • Research Writing: The Politics of Climate Change (Spring 2022, Spring 2023)
  • Campaigns & Elections (Fall 2022)
  • Congress (Fall 2022)
  • Media & Politics (Spring 2023)
  • The Presidency (Fall 2023)
  • Depolarizing Politics (Fall 2023)
  • Reproductive Rights & the Law (Spring 2024)
  • Political Science Fiction (Fall 2024)

Publications

  • “The Great American Rights Bake Off: Freedom of Religion v. Freedom from Discrimination,” New Political Science, Vol 41 (4), Nov 2019. Co-authored with Chelsea Ebin.
  • “Viral Memories: The making of Institutional History and Community Memory in the HIV/AIDS Crisis,” On Curating: What You Don’t Know About AIDS Could Fill a Museum: Curatorial Ethics in the Ongoing Epidemic in the 21st Century, Issue 42, October 14, 2019.
  • “The Treatment and Prevention of HIV Bodies: The Contemporary Science and Politics of a Thirty-Year-Old Epidemic” in LGBTQ Politics: A Critical Reader. Eds. Marla Brettschneider, Susan Burgess, and Cricket Keating. 2017, NYU Press.

Works in Progress

  • “Invasive Infrastructures in the Finger Lakes: From the Sullivan Campaign to Harmful Algae Blooms”
  • “Risky Identities and the State: Criminalization and Containment of Epidemics”
  • “From G.R.I.D. (Gay Related Immune Deficiency) to A.I.D.S.: Naming and Defining Evolving Biological Threats”