Book
Cyna, Esther. Stolen Futures: A History of Racism and School Finance in the U.S. South (University of North Carolina Press, under press [March 30, 2027]).
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Backer, David I., and Esther Cyna. “Critical School Finance,” Journal of Educational Administration and History 57, 1 (2024): 13–33.
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
Erickson, Ansley, Leana Cabal, Esther Cyna, Michael Hines and Matthew Kelly. “History and the Education Policy Imagination,” AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research (Routledge, 2025).
Cyna, Esther. “’The Best-Known Acronym in Education:’ IBM and Education Policy in North Carolina, 1959-1995,” in D. Giband, K. Mary, N. Nafaa (dir.), Social Geography of Globalized Education: Privatization(s), Segregation(s) and Resistance(s). Global North and South Perspectives (Springer, 2023).
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).
Edited Volume and Special Issues
Melcher, Cody, Olivier Mahéo and Esther Cyna, eds. Class, Race, and the US South: American Politics and Society through the Lens of Michael Goldfield’s Work. Brill, 2026.
Cyna, Esther and Nora Nafaa, eds. « Fractures éducatives aux États-Unis », Politique Américaine 43 (2025).
Boussac, Tamara and Esther Cyna, eds. “Space(s) and Social Rights,” Territoires Contemporains, 2022.
Online Publications
Cyna, Esther. “Naming Discrimination in School Finance.” On Education. Journal for Research and Debate, 8, 21 (2025).
Cyna, Esther. La fabrique fiscale des inégalités : L’impôt comme outil de dépossession raciale aux États-Unis. La Vie des Idées, 25 octobre 2024.
Cyna, Esther. « Financing Schools: America’s Kleptocratic Public School Divide », Phenomenal World (2022).
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.
