Peer-Reviewed Articles
Cyna, Esther. “Paper Trails: Exposing Racism in the History of School Finance,” History of Education Quarterly, 63, 4 (2023): 467-491.
Cyna, Esther. « Schooling the Kleptocracy: Racism and School Finance in Rural North Carolina, 1900-2018 », Journal of American History, 108, 4 (2022): 745–766.
Cyna, Esther. « La ségrégation scolaire au-delà de la « fuite des blancs » : exemple d’un comté rural en Caroline du Nord (1967-1980) », Revue Française d’Études Américaines, 166 (2021): 114-136.
Cyna, Esther. “Equalizing Resources vs. Maintaining Black Political Power: Paradoxes of Urban-Suburban School District Mergers–Durham, North Carolina, 1958-1996,” History of Education Quarterly 59, no. 1 (February 2019).
Cyna, Esther. “L’histoire mobilisée : réactualiser San Antonio v. Rodriguez” (“Deploying History: Reopening San Antonio v. Rodriguez”), Traits D’Union, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, nº9, (April 2019).
Cyna, Esther. “‘Such a Powerful Tool:’ Standards-Based Reform, Testing and School Segregation in North Carolina, 1970s-1990s,” Cahiers de la Recherche sur l’Enseignement et les Savoirs, vol 19 (November 2020): 105-126.
Book Chapters
Cyna, Esther. “Funding the High School of Tomorrow: Inequity in Facility Construction and Renovation in Rural North Carolina (1964-1997),” Kyle Steele (dir.), New Perspectives on the History of the Twentieth-Century American High School (under contract, Palgrave Macmillan Press).
Nafaa, Nora et Esther Cyna. « Ségrégations, communautés et crises urbaines », Éloïse Libourel et Matthieu Schorung (dir.), Les États-Unis d’Amérique (ClefsConcours, Khâgne, Géographie, 2021).
Phillips-Fein, Kim, and Esther Cyna. “Harlem Schools in the Fiscal Crisis,” in Ansley T. Erickson and Ernest M. Morrell (eds.), Educating Harlem: A Century of Schooling and Resistance in a Black Community (Columbia University Press, 2019).
Book Reviews
Cyna, Esther. “Nouvelles perspectives sur les mouvements pour les droits civiques aux États-Unis,” Revue française de science politique, 73, 2 (2023): 343-347.
Cyna, Esther. Review of Camille Walsh, Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973, American Journal of Education, 128, 1 (February 2022): 355-360.
Cyna, Esther. « Corps Politiques : Le Sport dans les luttes des Noirs américains pour l’égalité depuis la fin du XIXe siècle de Nicolas Martin-Breteau », RevueAlarmer, October 29, 2020.
Cyna, Esther. “Review of Elizabeth Todd-Breland, A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago since the 1960s,” Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation, (November 2019): 106.
Online Publications
Cyna, Esther. « Œuvre et héritages de Charles W. Mills, philosophe du ”contrat racial” », Transatlantica : Revue d’études américaines, rubrique « Perspectives », 2021, 2 (décembre 2021).
Cyna, Esther. “In the Streets, in the Archives: Decades of Teacher Protest in North Carolina,” History of Education Society website, April 26, 2019.
Cyna, Esther. “Back to the Future of Wadleigh Student,” peer-reviewed digital exhibit, November 2017, Harlem Education History Project digital humanities project, Teachers College, Columbia University.
Cyna, Esther. “Educational Opportunity and Legal Strategy: Exploring the ACLU of North Carolina Records,” blog contribution, The Devil’s Tale, Rubenstein Library Website, Duke University, September 13, 2018.
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