Events
Come hear the riveting and heart-wrenching story of violence, grief and the American justice system, exploring the systemic issues that perpetuate gang participation in one of the wealthiest cities in the country, through the story of one teenager.
In September of 2019, Luis Alberto Quiñonez—known as Sito— was shot to death…
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Laurence Ralph’s new book, Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him (Grand Central Publishing, Hachette Book Group), a deeply personal story of violence,…
As part of the multi-year Princeton–University of Tokyo Strategic Partnership Project, “Policing, Public Space, and Democracy,” faculty members from the Center for Transnational Policing, Princeton Urban Imagination Center, and the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University (Laurence Ralph, Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, and…
The interdisciplinary project “Policing, Public Space and Democracy” funded in Fall of 2019 has been thriving despite pandemic interruptions. The project aims to analyze policing as a component of democracy in both Japan and the United States to consider new approaches to public security, safety and crime prevention that minimize the use of…
Congratulations to Professor Laurence Ralph, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Of the nearly 270 members elected in 2023 are drawn from academia, the arts, industry, policy, research, and science, and include more than 40 International Honorary Members (IHM) from…
CTP community engagement events in Chicago featured in Yale School of Public Health News.
Dr. Laurence Ralph (CTP Co-Director) and Dr. Chelsey Carter (Yale University, CTP Affiliated Scholar), with support from the CTP staff and students from Princeton University, Yale University, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago, held community engagement events focused on issues of policing and police violence at the DuSable…
On December 4, 2022, CTP Co-Director Laurence Ralph discussed his book and film The Torture Letters with Reuben Miller (2022 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, University of Chicago) at the Seminary Co-op in Chicago, IL. After a short film showing and a reading from the book, they discussed how to talk about the history and…
Congratulations to Professor Laurence Ralph, Director of the Center on Transnational Policing in the Department of Anthropology, named the recipient of the 2021…
Allison Carruth
Professor of American Studies and the High Meadows Environmental Institute
Céline Gounder ’97
Internist, Infectious Disease Specialist, Epidemiologist, CEO of Just Human Productions, Host of “Epidemic”…
Congratulations to Professor Laurence Ralph, his book Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago, received the 2021 J.I. Stanley Prize. The School for Advanced Research (SAR) presents the J. I. Staley Prize to a living author for a book that exemplifies outstanding scholarship and writing in anthropology. It honors…