Laurence Ralph

Laurence Ralph is an American writer, filmmaker and researcher. He is a professor of anthropology at Princeton University and the Director of Center on Transnational Policing.

Ralph's research interests include urban ethnography, disability studies, social inequality, African American studies, race, policing, theories of violence, popular culture and hip-hop. He authored the books ''Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland'' in 2014 and ''The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence'' in 2020. He is also writer and director of the animated short film, ''The Torture Letters''.

Ralph has received the Guggenheim and Carnegie Fellowships, and is a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. He also received a fellowship from Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, and a Trustees Fellowship from the University of Chicago. He has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the National Research Council of the National Academies and is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. He is the Editor in Chief at Current Anthropology and has been the Associate Editor at ''Transforming Anthropology''. Provided by Wikipedia