Graduate Program
Maria-Elena D. Diaz
Area of Interest
Identity formation, social movements, culture, race/ethnicity, social inequality/stratification, social change (macro and micro)
Publications
Ortiz, David G., Daniel J. Myers, N. Eugene Walls, and Maria-Elena D. Diaz. 2005. “Where Do We Stand with Newspaper Data?” Mobilization: An International Journal 10(3): 397-419.
Diaz, Maria-Elena D. 2004. Book review, Separate Paths to Feminism. Mobilization: An International Journal 9(3): 346-348.
Profile
Diaz graduated magna cum laude with honors in sociology from Brandeis University, and earned a Master of Human Relations from the University of Okalahoma and Master of Arts in sociology from the University of Notre Dame. She passed her area exams in race/ethnicity with distinction, and statistics and methods. Her current work includes theorizing the interaction between identity-transformation, structure, and social change; analyzing the political mobilization of Asians; examining the interaction of culture and power in the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in the Hawaiian Kingdom in the early 19th century; and reexamining race riots in the 1960s.