Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is Olden Street Professor in American Studies and Chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University. A cultural and social anthropologist, she has conducted ethnographic research with Santería practitioners in Cuba and the United States, and police officers and communities of color affected by police violence in the United States. Her recent monograph, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence and the Invention of a Disease (Duke University Press, 2024) examines the medicalization of police violence. In addition, she has a co-edited volume, The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader (Princeton University Press, 2025), which brings together anthropologists from across the globe to interrogate white supremacy as a global phenomenon. Her first book, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (Columbia University Press, 2015), won the 2016 Albert J. Raboteau Award for the Best Book in Africana Religions. Her academic publications include articles in American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Signs, the Journal of Africana Religions, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and the Annual Review of Anthropology. Beliso-De Jesús is also the co-founder and co-director of the Center on Transnational Policing (CTP) at Princeton University, and Editor-In-Chief of Transforming Anthropology, the flagship journal for the Association of Black Anthropologists.