Estela B. Diaz
@estelabdiaz.bsky.social
Sociologist at Princeton studying and teaching about elites, culture, markets, education, and family. #FirstGen and Mellon Mays fellow. Pronouns are she/her/Dr.
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🚨New sociology! In "How the Rich Turn Sludge into Money," @shdoron1.bsky.social (@ipratnu.bsky.social) keys in on the bureaucratic practices wealthy families use to fend off threats to resources and intergenerational wealth transfers--and how these tactics change families contexts.org/blog/sludge/
September 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
🚨New sociology! In "How the Rich Turn Sludge into Money," @shdoron1.bsky.social (@ipratnu.bsky.social) keys in on the bureaucratic practices wealthy families use to fend off threats to resources and intergenerational wealth transfers--and how these tactics change families contexts.org/blog/sludge/
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OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE ARCHIVES explores the emotional and embodied experience of #LGBTQ+ archival work—where power, identity, and desire shape research itself.
#ASA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/342hnyt5
#QueerStudies #Sociology #LGBTQArchives #LGBTQResearch
#ASA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/342hnyt5
#QueerStudies #Sociology #LGBTQArchives #LGBTQResearch
August 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE ARCHIVES explores the emotional and embodied experience of #LGBTQ+ archival work—where power, identity, and desire shape research itself.
#ASA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/342hnyt5
#QueerStudies #Sociology #LGBTQArchives #LGBTQResearch
#ASA2025 #ReadUP tinyurl.com/342hnyt5
#QueerStudies #Sociology #LGBTQArchives #LGBTQResearch
I am sharing a fundraiser for the Asylum Support Clinic where a dear friend volunteers. The recent federal funding bill imposes, for the first time, fees on individuals applying for asylum. Details below, but please share with others or donate as you are able! www.gofundme.com/f/help-asylu...
Help Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC: Donate to ASC, organized by Amy Kantrowitz
Asylum Support Clinic (ASC) assists asylum seekers arriving i… Amy Kantrowitz needs your support for Help Asylum Seekers Find Safe Haven in NYC: Donate to ASC
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July 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I am sharing a fundraiser for the Asylum Support Clinic where a dear friend volunteers. The recent federal funding bill imposes, for the first time, fees on individuals applying for asylum. Details below, but please share with others or donate as you are able! www.gofundme.com/f/help-asylu...
Who said economic sociology can't be illuminating AND fun to read? You can have your cake and eat it too with Shays' new work on inheritance disputes and relational mismatches.
I am soo excited to share my newest article, “Unnatural Wills.” It’s about inheritance disputes!!! Murder, gold diggers, sex work, racial passing, secret lesbian lovers…WOW this was fun to write, and I hope it’s fun to read, too.
Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality
Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various t...
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July 23, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Who said economic sociology can't be illuminating AND fun to read? You can have your cake and eat it too with Shays' new work on inheritance disputes and relational mismatches.
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#MorningReads Econ sociologists have examined how morality shapes markets, but often treat class and organizations separately. Ethnography of 3 U.S. fertility clinics shows how their intersection shapes how providers talk about money to manage trust & authority. Via @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social
Doctor, how much does it cost? Moral values and price talk in a stratified consumer medical market
Abstract. In recent years, economic sociology scholarship has begun to interrogate how moral understandings of market exchanges differ according to organiz
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July 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
#MorningReads Econ sociologists have examined how morality shapes markets, but often treat class and organizations separately. Ethnography of 3 U.S. fertility clinics shows how their intersection shapes how providers talk about money to manage trust & authority. Via @elizaclairebrown.bsky.social
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In @asanews.bsky.social ASR, @larivera.bsky.social and @estelabdiaz.bsky.social use qualitative data from elite independent pre K-12 schools to find that admissions processes are structured to exclude applicants at risk of disabilities.
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 15, 2025 at 6:58 PM
In @asanews.bsky.social ASR, @larivera.bsky.social and @estelabdiaz.bsky.social use qualitative data from elite independent pre K-12 schools to find that admissions processes are structured to exclude applicants at risk of disabilities.
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read more: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Do you know about my book drive in support of Bluestockings Bookstore?
July 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Do you know about my book drive in support of Bluestockings Bookstore?
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June 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)!
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June 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
✨New✨ postdoc opportunity to collaborate with @mollycopeland.bsky.social and myself on an exciting project on geography, community, and mental health at @ndsociology.bsky.social. Happy to talk to anyone interested. Please resky (or whatever retweeting is called here)!
apply.interfolio.com/169206
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.
April 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.
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The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic re...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The very first paper from our large comparative project - the World Elite Database - is out.
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Lots of coordination and important discussion on comparing elites allow us to - for the first time really - compare elites across very different national contexts.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Sharing a thought provoking piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social about Ohio's anti-DEI. Reminds me of the problems I escaped from in Florida! www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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March 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Sharing a thought provoking piece by @tiffjhuang.bsky.social about Ohio's anti-DEI. Reminds me of the problems I escaped from in Florida! www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
Our piece is out now in ASR! See Lauren's fantastic thread below for the highlights. We believe scholars who study elites, culture, and education will all have something to take away from this work. Let us know what you think. (1/2)
How do the most elite US private schools, which serve as Ivy League feeders, select their youngest members? In a new ASR article w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social, we show that schools explicitly design their early childhood admissions practices to identify—and exclude—disabled or neurodivergent children🧵
March 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Our piece is out now in ASR! See Lauren's fantastic thread below for the highlights. We believe scholars who study elites, culture, and education will all have something to take away from this work. Let us know what you think. (1/2)
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How do the most elite US private schools, which serve as Ivy League feeders, select their youngest members? In a new ASR article w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social, we show that schools explicitly design their early childhood admissions practices to identify—and exclude—disabled or neurodivergent children🧵
March 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
How do the most elite US private schools, which serve as Ivy League feeders, select their youngest members? In a new ASR article w/ @estelabdiaz.bsky.social, we show that schools explicitly design their early childhood admissions practices to identify—and exclude—disabled or neurodivergent children🧵
Fantastic piece this morning by @charlieeaton.bsky.social on the imperative wealthy universities have to fight the cuts to research funding: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
Opinion | Universities Can Afford to Fight Trump
Every university president will face a choice similar to Columbia University’s in the coming months.
www.nytimes.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Fantastic piece this morning by @charlieeaton.bsky.social on the imperative wealthy universities have to fight the cuts to research funding: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/o...
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“The widespread adoption of vouchers, Cowen explains, was a policy coup staged by billionaires who were libertarians or religious zealots or both.”
Yet vouchers don’t work.
So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Yet vouchers don’t work.
So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Selling Out Our Public Schools | Diane Ravitch
Donald Trump promised that he will make public funds available to private as well as religious schools in every state, and this is what his party wants,
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February 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
“The widespread adoption of vouchers, Cowen explains, was a policy coup staged by billionaires who were libertarians or religious zealots or both.”
Yet vouchers don’t work.
So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Yet vouchers don’t work.
So honored by The Privateers review from the great @dianeravitch.bsky.social @nybooks.com
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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Keep imagining better worlds.
December 13, 2024 at 5:15 AM
Keep imagining better worlds.
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Most elite families did not maintain their position in the top 1 percent between 1850 and 1940, from Priti Kalsi and Zachary Ward https://www.nber.org/papers/w33355
January 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Most elite families did not maintain their position in the top 1 percent between 1850 and 1940, from Priti Kalsi and Zachary Ward https://www.nber.org/papers/w33355
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I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.
January 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I wish people on the left would stop using “diversity hire” or “affirmative action” to describe folks like Hegseth. This reinforces the racist, sexist notion that diversity and affirmative action are promoting unqualified people, doing the right’s work for the.
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More important work from ProPublica on private schools, and a great resource for teaching.
We’ve matched the demographics of private schools to the surrounding public school districts, enabling parents, researchers and journalists to directly compare the makeup of private schools to local public systems. Check this out! @cerealcommas.bsky.social @natlash.bsky.social @schwanksta.com
ProPublica Releases New Private School Demographics Lookup
Now you can look up detailed demographic information about thousands of private schools across the country and compare them to nearby public schools.
www.propublica.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
More important work from ProPublica on private schools, and a great resource for teaching.
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North Carolina's Segregation Academies are benefiting from rapidly expanding and controversial voucher-style programs.
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social & @mrsimon22.bsky.social report, with photography by @gregkahn.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/segr...
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social & @mrsimon22.bsky.social report, with photography by @gregkahn.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/segr...
November 18, 2024 at 3:33 PM
North Carolina's Segregation Academies are benefiting from rapidly expanding and controversial voucher-style programs.
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social & @mrsimon22.bsky.social report, with photography by @gregkahn.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/segr...
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social & @mrsimon22.bsky.social report, with photography by @gregkahn.bsky.social for @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/segr...
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Currently writing a chapter about whiteness and what I call the ‘long shadow’ of Jim Crow. We have a lot of interviews with White folks from the Delta who attended, and/or send their children to these segregation academies. All of them did their schooling post-1969 Alexander v. Holmes
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across the Deep South: Alongside about 200 majority-Black public school districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social,
@natlash.bsky.social, @mrsimon22.bsky.social
propub.li/3BFytzN
@jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social,
@natlash.bsky.social, @mrsimon22.bsky.social
propub.li/3BFytzN
The Story of One Mississippi County Shows How Private Schools Are Exacerbating Segregation
A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school districts, a separate web of private academies are filled almost entirely with white students.
propub.li
December 19, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Currently writing a chapter about whiteness and what I call the ‘long shadow’ of Jim Crow. We have a lot of interviews with White folks from the Delta who attended, and/or send their children to these segregation academies. All of them did their schooling post-1969 Alexander v. Holmes