Dr. Anca Diana Axinia

Dr. Anca Diana Axinia received her PhD in history from the European University Institute in Florence in 2022. Her dissertation Women and Politics in the Romanian Legionary Movement is the first systematic study of women’s participation and gender relations in the Romanian Legionary Movement. Her research interests include fascist studies, gender studies, feminist theory, and Eastern European history. She has just concluded a research fellowship at the New Europe College in Bucharest with a project on the relationships between fascism, gender, and the Holocaust in the Romanian context. From January 2025, Dr. Anca Diana Axinia will be a research fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.