Dr. Diana Georgescu

Biography

Diana Georgescu's academic biography is deeply connected to the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the renewed scholarly interest in the region's history, culture, and society. She grew up in Romania and pursued an interdisciplinary study of Eastern and Southeastern Europe through postgraduate programmes in Europe and the United States. Diana earned her doctoral degree in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since joining UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies in September 2015, she returned to Europe as a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Her academic career spans multiple continents and disciplines. She shifted her focus from history to social sciences with an exploration of gender and national regimes in Eastern European history through postgraduate programmes in Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. This shift followed her early training in literary, cultural, and film studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages at the University of Bucharest. Diana's archival and oral history research in Romania and the UK has been supported by various grants including the U.S. Fulbright Programme and the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute, among others.

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