Her research interests intersect race and ethnicity, immigrant adaptation, professional education, and professions. Her book, Incidental Racialization: Performative Assimilation in Law School (Temple University Press, 2017) examines the socialization of Asian American and Latino law students as racialized immigrants entering an elite profession. She is extending this line of inquiry in a new project that explores how race matters for professionals – doctors, lawyers, and financial professionals. Diana grew up in Corvallis, and went to OSU for undergraduate.