About us

Cristina Diac is a Research Associate at the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism – Romanian Academy (since 2006), and associated lecturer within the Department of Romanian Studies and History of Southeastern Europe, Faculty of History, University of Bucharest (since 2012).

Research interests: history of the European left, the communist activism in interbellum Romania and communist networks, transnational political movements, political radicalism in the XXth century, transnational history, the social history of politics, ego-documents usage for the historical studies, the biographical method.
Recent publications: „The communist discourse on minorities in interwar Romania and its practical implications for the anti-fascist fighters,” Anders Ahlbäck, Kasper Braskén (eds.), Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities. History and Memory in Central and Eastern Europe, Routledge, 2023, p. 187-209; Robert Gildea, Ismee Tames (eds.), Fighters across frontiers. Transnational Resistance in Europe, 1936-48, Manchester University Press, 2020 (co-autor); „Alexandru Buican, la vie transnationale d’un révolutionnaire professionnel,” Jean Vigreux, Romain Ducoulombier (eds.), Le PCR, un parti global (1919-1989). Approches transnationales et comparées, Éditions Universitaires de Dijon, 2019, p. 113-123.
Contact information: cristina.diac@gmail.com, cristina.diac@istorie.unibuc.ro
ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7723-3094.
Personal website: www.ilegalisti.ro, https://totalitarism.academia.edu/CristinaDiac.