About
Francy Luna Diaz is ABD in Political Science at the University of Michigan. Francy earned her A.A. at Pima Community College, where she graduated valedictorian, and her B.A. in Political Science and Law from the University of Arizona in 2019, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude and received the Robie Gold Medal Award.
Luna Diaz is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships, including the National Science Foundation GRFP, 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 American Political Science Association Diversity Fellowship, and the University of Michigan Rackham Graduate School Merit Fellowship.
Her research focuses on public opinion and behavior, political psychology, political communication, transnationalism, social media, misinformation, and Latine politics. In her book-style dissertation, she proposes a novel theory to explain Latino political behavior by examining the influence of transnationalism on political attitudes and exposure to social media misinformation. She employs mixed methods, drawing from quantitative survey data and qualitative in-depth interviews.
