University of Michigan Price joined the Department of Communication at the
University of Michigan in 1987, right after receiving his doctorate. He served as assistant professor from 1987 to 1993, as associate chair of the Department of Communication from 1991 to 1995, as faculty associate at the Center for Political Studies at the
Institute for Social Research from 1987 to 1998. He was promoted to associate professor in 1993 and served as chair of the Department of Communication from 1995 to 1998, when he left for interim provostship at the University of Pennsylvania. While at Michigan, Price wrote a book entitled
Public Opinion in 1992. The book is 92 pages long and examines and contrasts the ideas of
Plato,
John Locke and
Walter Lippmann with current laboratory findings of
group dynamics and
cognitive psychology.
University of Pennsylvania At the University of Pennsylvania, he held the positions of interim provost, associate provost for faculty affairs, chair of the Faculty Senate, and associate dean of the
Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Price served as the
editor-in-chief of the
Public Opinion Quarterly from 1997 to 2001. and he assumed office on October 5, 2017. He was reappointed to another five-year term in 2021. Since 2017, Price has served as a trustee of the
National Humanities Center at
Research Triangle Park. == Personal life ==