Research
Diana’s innovative research pursues two complementary lines of inquiry. The first interrogates the Guatemalan state’s hidden tradition of policing and archiving (1882 to 1997) and its afterlives in “postwar.” The second excavates the role of women in historical and contemporary organizing, and traces their sociopolitical formations and alternative traditions, including revolutionary, Maya, and community feminism. She employs ethnographic and archival methods to examine historical collisions between both lines of inquiry. Through a hemispheric lens, Diana reframes Guatemala beyond the prevailing silo that centers the military as the primary institutional perpetrator of violence during the Genocidal Period (1960-1996).
Recent Projects
“Queering the Citizen?: Exposing the Myths of Racial Capital Fantasies.” In The Promise of Youth Anti-Citizenship: Race and Revolt in Education, edited by Kevin L. Clay and Kevin Lawrence. Co-authored with Damien Sojoyner.
The Complex: Coming Home in the Diaspora (in press). In Engendering U.S. Central American Women's Testimonios edited by Karina Alma, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, Ester E. Hernandez, and Yajaira Padilla. University of Arizona Press. Co-authored with Andrea N. Juárez Mendoza.
Resistiendo en Las Montañas: Marronage in Guatemala and Maya Women Building Another World” in the forthcoming book Abolitionist Dialogues in Central American Studies collection with Np Press (forthcoming, copy available upon request).