Dr. Diana Dumitru is Ion Ratiu Professor in Romanian Studies at Georgetown University. Her research interests include the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, nationality policies and antisemitism in the USSR, and late Stalinism and postwar trials in the Soviet Union. Dr. Dumitru has held multiple fellowships that include a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellowship, a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship for research at Georgetown University, a research fellowship at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, a fellowship at Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, and a research fellowship at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg at Jena University in Germany. Her second book, The State, Antisemitism and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Borderlands of Romania and the Soviet Union, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.
Currently, Dr. Dumitru is working on two projects: together with Chad Bryant and Kateřina Čapková, she is working on a book titled “The Trial that Shook the World: The Slánský Process and the Dynamics of Czechoslovak Stalinism,” a project supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and under contract with Oxford University Press. Simultaneously, Diana is working on her own book manuscript “Indispensable Yet Suspect: Soviet Jews under Late Stalinism.”
Dr. Dumitru is an editorial board member of the scholarly journals Holocaust and Genocide Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Journal of Genocide Research.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Ion Ratiu Associate Teaching Professor in Romanian Studies, SFS - Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies (CERES)