Zachary F . Price

Zachary F. Price is an Associate Professor of Drama in the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine where he is a member of the doctoral faculty. He also holds a core appointment in the Department of African American Studies. In addition to training doctoral students, his research and pedagogy focuses on African American drama and Black cultural performance as well as comparative race studies and critical race theory. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University, College Station where he taught performance theory and practice. Before joining the faculty at TAMU, Price was a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and has also held appointments as an Assistant Adjunct Professor and Assistant Researcher in the Department of African American Studies at UCLA where he taught courses in Theater, Performance, and Film Studies. He also held an appointment as an Assistant Researcher in the Bunche Center for African American Studies where he conducted research on the diversity of minorities and women in the film and entertainment industry. He received a Ph.D. in Theater Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, M.F.A. in Theater Studies from the New School University, and B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.