Profile

Diana is currently Interim Executive Director of AAARI - CUNY. She is Associate Professor of Sociology at Brooklyn College, and previously served as the Director of the American Studies Program, and Associate Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Brooklyn College. As a 1.5-generation immigrant and first-generation college student, Diana's research broadly examines the experiences of nonwhite individuals in predominantly white spaces. Her primary areas of inquiry are elite professions. Diana’s previous work focused on processes of racialization in law school; she is the author of Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School (Temple University Press, 2017). Building on that project, her current work interrogates the role and significance of diversity in three elite professions: law, medicine, and higher education. Her work has appeared in sociology and interdisciplinary journals, such as Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, and Journal of Asian American Studies, among others.