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Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University and the chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America. A cultural and social anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States, and police officers and Black and Brown communities affected by police violence in the United States. She is the author of Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence, and the Invention of a Disease (Duke University Press, 2024), Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Columba University Press, 2015), the co-founder of the Center for Transnational Policing (CTP) at Princeton University, and Editor-In-Chief of Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal for the Association of Black Anthropologists.

 

Dr. Yomaira C. Figueroa-Vásquez is the director of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (CENTRO) and a professor of Africana, Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at CUNY Hunter. Professor Figueroa’s teaching and research focus on Latinx Caribbean and Afro-Hispanic literatures and diasporas, women of color, and decolonial Feminisms. She is the author of the award-winning book Decolonizing Diasporas: Radical Mappings of Afro-Atlantic Literature (Northwestern University Press, 2020; translated by Editora Educación Emergente, 2023), and the forthcoming book, The Survival of a People (under contract with Duke University Press). Her published work can be found in Hypatia, Decolonization, CENTRO Journal, Small Axe, Frontiers Journal, Hispanofilia, Contemporânea, Diálogos, and Feminist Formations.