Diana GEORGESCU

Academic Years:
2022/2023
2009/2010

Field of Study:
History
Nationalism Studies
History of Socialism

Research Programs:
N+N
NEC

Affiliation:
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Position:
Assistant Professor

Country:
Romania/USA

Research project: Romania’s Child Ambassadors: International Youth Camps, Cultural Diplomacy and Transnational Connections in the Global Cold War (1960s-1980s)

The project explores international children’s camps as forms of cultural diplomacy in the global Cold War from the “pericentric” perspective of the Romanian Pioneer Organization. Examining interrelated East-East and East-West youth exchanges in the Soviet bloc and Western Europe, it will produce the first archive-based study of the Romanian Pioneers’ international agenda and contribute to debates in the history of childhood and youth, internationalism, cultural diplomacy and the Cold War.

A full-length study is available here.

Research project: "Ceaușescu's Children": A Biography of Romania's Last Socialist Generation (1965-1989) [2009-2010]

A full-length study is available here.