Associate Professor Diana Graizbord is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. During the 2025-2026 academic year she will be a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Previously Diana was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Diana earned her Ph.D in Sociology from Brown University where she was an NSF-IGERT Fellow in Development and Inequality in the Global South. She also holds degrees from The New School’s Milano School for International Affairs, Management and Policy and Sarah Lawrence College. Her research and teaching interests include Theory, Political Sociology, Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Technology Studies, and Globalization and Development. Her first book, Indicators of Democracy: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico, was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. Education Education: Ph.D., Sociology, Brown University, 2017 M.A., International Affairs, The New School, 2010 B.A., Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, 2002 Research Research Areas: Sociology of Science Political Sociology Globalization Development and Social Change Culture Selected Publications Selected Publications: Graizbord, Diana. 2024. INDICATORS OF DEMOCRACY: The Politics and Promise of Evaluation Expertise in Mexico. Stanford University Press. Graizbord, Diana. 2023. “State Calculations and the Promise of Replication.” Public Culture 35:3:331–342. Nelson, Alondra, C. Thompson, S. van Wichelen, J. Rohde, J. Barkan, C. Sims, and D. Graizbord. 2023. “Science and the State.” Public Culture 35:3: 279–288. Graizbord, Diana and L. de Souza Leão. “The Political Work of 'Culture' in Struggles to Reform the Mexican State.” Politics & Society 54(4): 567–596. Awards, Honors, and Recognition Of Note: During the 2025-2026 academic year she will be a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, joining a dynamic interdisciplinary group of scholars, practitioners, journalists, and activists.
