Daria Dyakonova

Daria Dyakonova is an Adjunct Faculty at the Department of International Relations of the International University in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a visiting fellow at the Department of International History and Politics at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She did her M.A. in history at the Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne and earned her Ph.D. in history at the University of Montreal. Her thesis studies the under-researched topic of transnational ties of Young Canadian Communists during the interwar period. Daria participated in a number of research projects in Montreal studying left-wing international networks, transnational social movements, and international relations. She has also published academic articles and book chapters on international socialism and communism. Daria’s latest project is a co-edited collection of documents on the international communist women’s movement in the 1920s (forthcoming, Brill). This study situates itself at the intersection of the still-developing fields of history of activism, transnational history, and gender studies. Its overarching objective is to assess communist women’s contribution to the struggle for women’s liberation.