Monroe Price, an American academic and director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Global Communication Studies, died on March 15, 2026.
He also served as director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London. In the early 1970s, Price was deputy director of the Sloan Commission on Cable Communications, which produced the report “On the Cable, The Television of Abundance” in 1971.
His early scholarly and public interest work focused on American Indian law. In the 1970s, he published “Law and the American Indian,” helped found California Indian Legal Services and the Native American Rights Fund, and was a professor at the UCLA School of Law.
Monroe Edwin Price (August 18, 1938 – March 16, 2026) was an American academic who was director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Global Communication Studies (CGCS) at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London.