University of Wisconsin–Madison
Diego Ayala

Diego Ayala

Diego Ayala

Diego Ayala is a PhD candidate in sociology and political economy at UC Berkeley. His research interests span comparative-historical sociology, the political economy of development, and political sociology and social movements. He is the author of Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle: State, Labor and Capital, 1931–1973 (Routledge, 2024) and various articles on inequality and development in Latin America, and is currently working on a dissertation on slavery and class structure in the Spanish Caribbean.

2026 Winner: Does the Color of Class Vary? A Comparative-Historical Study of the United States, Brazil and the Spanish Caribbean