Cristina Beltrán

Cristina Beltrán, Ph.D., works at the intersection of Latino politics and political theory. She is associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Her current research project (provisionally titled "Latino Conservatives: Racial Shame, Racial Success, and the Politics of Transformation") is a book-length exploration of how Latino conservative thought is shaped not only by ideology but through a potent combination of emotion, expression, and aesthetics. Other projects include editing a volume tentatively entitled "Political Theory/Latino Politics: Appropriation and Innovation" and a series of essays drawing on Jean-Jacques Rousseau to consider double-consciousness and the modern racial self. Her work has appeared in Political Theory, Political Research Quarterly, and various edited volumes. Cristina and her husband, editor Matthew Budman, live in New York City.