Listen to CTP Co-Director Aisha Beliso-de Jesús talk about her book, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease (Duke University Press…

CTP Co-Director Laurence Ralph and CTP Affiliated Scholar Chelsey Carter (Yale University) attended the award ceremonies at the 2024 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in Tampa, Florida, and…

The Center on Transnational Policing’s Police Torture and Community Healing Project team has been selected as one of the Group Winners of the 2024 New Directions Award of the General Anthropology Division. The team leaders are…

The American Anthropological Association has awarded Laurence Ralph (CTP Co-Director) and Chelsey Carter (Yale University, CTP Affiliated Scholar) the…

“‘Excited delirium syndrome’ is a tool the state invented to evade accountability whenever people of color die at the hands of police.”

Read an excerpt from Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease by…

CTP’s Police Torture and Community Healing project team has been selected as one of the Group Winners of 2024 New Directions Award of the General Anthropology Division of the American Anthropological Association. 

“The GAD New Directions Award calls attention to the myriad ways…

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.”