Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús is an American anthropologist, academic, author, and editor. She is the Olden Street Professor of American Studies at Princeton University, and chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America. She is the author of two books, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion (2015) and Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence and the Invention of a Disease (2024).[1] Beliso-De Jesús is also the editor-in-chief of Transforming Anthropology.[2]
Education
editBeliso-De Jesús received a Bachelor of Arts in Chicano and Latino Studies from University of California, Berkeley.[1] Thereafter, she earned a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University.[1]
Career
editIn July 2009, Beliso-De Jesús joined the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty as assistant professor of African American Religions.[3] She later authored Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion, which won the 2016 Albert J. Raboteau Award for the Best Book in Africana Religions.[4]
After eight years at HDS, where she was Professor of African American Religions, Beliso-De Jesús joined the Princeton University faculty, as a Professor in American Studies. In 2020, she became the director of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Latino Studies. She is the first chair of the Effron Center for the Study of America at Princeton University.[1] She is also the editor-in-chief of Transforming Anthropology, a journal published by the Association of Black Anthropologists.[2]
Her second book, Excited Delirium: Race, Police Violence and the Invention of a Disease was published by Duke University Press in 2024.
Bibliography
edit- Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion, Columbia University Press, 2015, ISBN 9780231539913[5][6][7][8]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús". Princeton University. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- ^ a b "Transforming Anthropology - Editorial Team". Association of Black Anthropologists. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- ^ "Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús Is New Assistant Professor of African American Religions". Harvard University. March 15, 2009. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- ^ "Professor Beliso-De Jesús Wins Journal of Africana Religions Book Priz". Harvard Divinity School. August 1, 2016. Retrieved November 23, 2019.
- ^ Vidal-Ortiz, Salvador (November 2017). "Electric Santería : Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion. Aisha Beliso-De Jesús, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 282 pp". The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 22 (3): 600–603. doi:10.1111/jlca.12312. ISSN 1935-4932.
- ^ Wirtz, Kristina (February 19, 2017). "Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús (review)". Journal of American Folklore. 130 (515): 120–122. doi:10.5406/jamerfolk.130.515.0120. ISSN 1535-1882.
- ^ Doran, Justin Michael (August 1, 2016). "Review: Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion by Aisha Beliso-De Jesús". Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 20 (1): 121–123. doi:10.1525/novo.2016.20.1.121. ISSN 1092-6690.
- ^ Autar, Louise (December 31, 2017). "Review of Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesus, Electric Santería: Racial and Sexual Assemblages of Transnational Religion, New York and Chichester, West Sussex: Columbia University Press 2015, xiv + 282 pp., ISBN 978-0231173162". Religion and Gender. 7 (2): 256. doi:10.18352/rg.10222. ISSN 1878-5417.