Diana Dumitru

Dr. Diana Dumitru is Ion Rațiu Chair of 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. Her most recent book, Soviet Jews under Late Stalinism: A Story from the Western Borderlands (Cambridge University Press, 2026), examines how Jews in postwar Soviet Moldavia navigated a state that was, at once, a source of professional advancement and a source of enduring suspicion. She is also co-editor, with A. Dirk Moses, of The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Victims, Perpetrators, Justice, and the Question of Genocide (Routledge, 2025). 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 the Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies, and a research fellowship at the Imre Kertész Kolleg at Jena University in Germany. Dr. Dumitru is an editorial board member of the scholarly journals Holocaust and Genocide Studies, East European Jewish Affairs, and Journal of Genocide Research.