About
Francy D. Luna Diaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her research examines how information environments shape political attitudes and behavior, with particular attention to Latine politics, public opinion, political communication, political psychology, transnationalism, social media, and misinformation.
In her book-style dissertation, Rumors Across Borders, Luna Diaz develops a theory of transnational information environments to explain how cross-border social ties and digital media shape the political information Latinos encounter, interpret, and respond to. The project uses mixed methods, including original survey data, survey experiments, in-depth interviews, and computational analyses of social media data.
Luna Diaz is the recipient of several competitive fellowships, grants, and awards, including the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program, the American Political Science Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, the Garth Taylor Fellowship in Public Opinion, the Hanes Walton Jr. Fellowship for Graduate Study in Racial and Ethnic Politics, the Philip Converse and Warren Miller Fellowship in American Political Behavior, the APSA Diversity Fellowship, and the University of Michigan Rackham Merit Fellowship.
Before beginning her doctoral training, Luna Diaz earned an A.A. from Pima Community College, where she was selected as the graduating class commencement speaker, and a B.A. in Political Science and Law from the University of Arizona, where she graduated summa cum laude and received the Robie Gold Medal Award, one of the university’s highest student honors.
