Cristina Beltrán, Ph.D., works at the intersection of Latino politics and political theory. She is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. From 2001 until 2011, she taught in the Political Science Department at Haverford College; in 2013-14, she was a resident member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.

Her current research project (provisionally titled The Right Kind of Difference: Latino Republicans and the Pleasures of Race) 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