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The Ratiu Foundation is pleased to report the Dr. Diana Dumitru has begun a three-year contract at Georgetown University as the Ion Ratiu Visiting Professor of Romanian Studies. She will develop courses in Eastern European studies with a substantial Romanian component that will treat the period from World War II through the post-communist present. During the 2021-22 academic year, Dr. Diana Dumitru was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. For two decades she has taught modern Romanian and East European history at the Ion Creangă State University in Chişinău, where she is currently Associate Professor. Among the courses she has taught are “Comparative Politics of East European Countries,” “Contemporary Eastern Europe,” “Modern Totalitarian Regimes,” and “Nations, Nationalism, and Ethno-Political Conflicts.” In 2019, Dumitru received the Honor Medal, the highest award at Ion Creangă State University for teaching excellence. Dr. Diana Dumitru is the author of two books and approximately 40 articles and book chapters in English and Romanian, many in leading peer-reviewed scholarly journals. Her first book, in Romanian, was Marea Britanie şi Unirea Principatelor Romane (1856-1859) [Great Britain and the Union of Romanian Principalities] (2010). Her second book, The State, Anti-Semitism, and Collaboration in the Holocaust: The Soviet-Romanian Borderlands was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016 and was a Finalist in the 2017 Yad Vashem International Book Prize. It was translated into Romanian as Vecini in vremuri de restriște. Stat, antisemitism și Holocaust in Basarabia și Transnistria (Iași: Polirom, 2019). She is currently finishing a third book co-authored with Chad Bryant and Kateřina Čapkova, The Trial that Shook the World: The Slanský Trial and the Dynamics of Czechoslovak Stalinism, which is under contract with Oxford University Press. Dr. Diana Dumitru has held many prestigious visiting and research positions around the world, as Black Sea Link Research Fellow, New Europe College, Bucharest in 2011-2012; as Gerstein Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto in 2016; Research Fellow at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg Jena, 2017-2018; and as Fernand Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence in 2021.