My Biography
Laurence Ralph is the William D. Zabel ’58 Professor of Human Rights at Princeton University, where he is the director of the Center on Transnational Policing. Previously, he was a tenured professor at Harvard University. He is the author of Renegade Dreams: Living Through Injury in Gangland Chicago (2014), The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence (2020), and Sito: An American Teenager and the City that Failed Him (2024). The Torture Letters is also the name of his award-winning animated short film, which is featured in The New York Times Op-Doc series. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Carnegie Fellow, a fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, a member of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.