Dr. Daria Dyakonova is a historian and postdoctoral research fellow jointly affiliated with Sapienza University in Rome and the University of Glasgow, with additional ties to the Gender Centre at the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her current scholarship focuses on the international Communist Women’s Movement during the interwar period, with particular attention to transnational activism.

Her doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Montreal, analyzed the transnational history of the Young Communist League of Canada. She is currently adapting it into a monograph. Dr. Dyakonova's research expertise spans left-wing youth and women’s movements, the transnational history of communism, Soviet history and gender history. Her recent publications include a co-edited documentary collection on the Communist Women’s Movement (Brill, 2022) and a few scholarly contributions on Canadian communism’s international connections and the Communist Women’s Movement during the interwar years. Earlier, she taught at the International Institute in Geneva.