Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (Co-Director, CTP; Chair, Effron Center) will discuss her new book, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a…

Listen to Professor Aisha Beliso-De Jesús interviewed by Abdul El-Sayed on America Dissected.  

“The concept of ‘excited delirium’ has been used to justify extreme force from law enforcement and to cover up police violence. Coined by a medical examiner in Florida in the ’80s, it has its roots in eugenics. Abdul reflects on…

It is our great pleasure to announce that Professor Laurence Ralph has been named the William D. Zabel ’58 Professorship of Human Rights. This Professorship was recently established in recognition of William D. Zabel lifetime…

“The anthropologist Laurence Ralph has long written about the search for meaning in lives beset by conflict and crisis. In Sito, his new book about the murder of a nineteen-year-old relative, one of the seekers turns out to be Ralph himself.”

CTP co-director Aisha Beliso-De Jesús was featured on Amanpour., aired May 22, 2024, on CNN and PBS. 
In the interview, she discusses “excited delirium,” analyzed in her forthcoming book…

CTP Co-Director, Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, has been awarded the Magic Grant for Innovation from the Humanities Council for her project “Excited Delirium: The…

Princeton Alumni Weekly features Laurence Ralph and his new book Sito: An American Teenager and the City That Failed Him.

The New Brownies' Book, featuring an essay “Time Capsules” by Laurence Ralph, won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Nonfiction.

“Inspired by the groundbreaking work of W. E. B. Du Bois, this beautiful collection brings together an outstanding roster of Black creative voices to honor, celebrate, and foster Black…

Listen to Laurence Ralph discuss Sito in radio program Forum from KQED-FM (NPR).

Laurence Ralph discusses his book, SITO: An American teenager and the City that Failed Him, in an essay in Time Magazine.