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Cristina Beltrán is 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 and U.S. ethnic/racial politics, feminist and queer theory. She is the author of TheTrouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010). In 2013-2014 she was a Member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where she began doing research for a book on Latino conservatives tentatively titled The Right Kind of Difference: Latino Republicans and the Pleasures of Race.