Cristina Beltrán
Associate Professor of Political Science
Biography
Cristina Beltrán received her B.A. in Politics from the University of California at Santa Cruz and her Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University.
Professor Beltrán teaches courses on modern and contemporary political theory, Latino politics in the United States, democratic theory, feminist political theory, and American political thought. She was awarded the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Outstanding Teaching by Haverford College in 2008.
Education
B.A., University of California
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Research
Broadly cast, Professor Beltrán's research interests center on questions of membership, identity, inequality, and the way in which these forces shape deliberation and participation in the public sphere. Her book, Performing Unity: Latino Politics and the Pursuit of Visibility is forthcoming with Oxford University Press (August 2009). Future projects include editing a volume of essays tentatively entitled Political Theory/Latino Politics: Innovation and Appropriation. Recent publications include “Patrolling Borders: Hybrids, Hierarchies and the Challenge of Mestizaje” in Political Research Quarterly (Vol. 54, No. 4) and “From El Lector to the Nuyorican Poets Café: Walt Whitman and the Latino Poetic Tradition,” in Democratic Vistas Today: The Political Companion to Walt Whitman, edited by John Seery (University Press of Kentucky, forthcoming 2009). She has written on Gloria Anzaldua, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the relationship between politics and aesthetics.
Professor Beltrán is on sabbatical leave for 2008-2009.
Courses: Fall 2009, Haverford
Political Science
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Courses: Spring 2010, Haverford
Gender and Sexuality Studies
Latin American and Iberian Studies
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Political Science
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