Dr. Diana Dumitru received her Ph.D. in history and B.A. in history and psychology from the State Pedagogical University “Ion Creanga” of Moldova.

Diana Dumitru has received several awards for her exceptional scholarship including the Soros Foundation Doctoral Studies Award and a Junior Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—a program sponsored by the United States Department of State. She graduated with First Place Honors from the State Pedagogical University “Ion Creanga” of Moldova for her doctoral studies.

Dr. Dumitru has written a number of important scholarly articles in Romanian. She has taught courses on totalitarian regimes of the 20th century; comparative politics of east European countries; nations, nationalism and ethnopolitical conflict regulation; and international relations, among others.