Th e Center for the Study of
Ethnicity and Race (CSER)
presents the first multi-year
Latino Speaker Series at Columbia University
Cristina Beltrán, New York University
Latino Political Diversity in 2012:
Ideological Heterogeneity
Among Voters and Candidates
Wed., September 19, 2012
5:00pm
420 Hamilton Hall
Columbia University
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
Cristina Beltrán is an associate
professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York
University. A political theorist by training, her research focuses on modern
and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, Latino studies and Latino
politics in the United States, U.S. race politics, gender and sexuality, and
American political thought. She is the author of The Trouble with Unity:
Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press,
2010), winner of the 2011 American Political Science Association's Ralph Bunche
Award for the best book in political science on ethnic and cultural pluralism
and the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science
Association for the best book on Racial and Ethnic Political Identities,
Ideologies, and Theories.
Further information
on the CSER Latino Speaker Series:
Josephine Caputo
Coordinator
Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race
Columbia University in the City of New York
423 Hamilton Hall / 1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, New York 10027
Tel: 212.854.0507
Fax: 212.854.0500
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cser/