Dr. Dieng is a political scientist and an international development specialist. She is an Associate Professor in Gender and International Relations and the Co-Director of the Gender Centre. Prior to joining the institute, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) where she worked for 6 years and an adjunct Senior Lecturer at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Dieng’s research focuses on feminist international relations, African politics; racial capitalism, gender politics and feminist and citizen movements. in Senegal and French-speaking Africa (including the Sahel). Her research also focuses on the African diasporas in France and the UK, and most recently French, US and Emerging Powers’ foreign policy in Africa. She has been published in renowned journals such as Politics and Gender, The Review of African Political Economy, The Journal of Peasant Studies, and CODESRIA’s Africa Development.
Beyond academia, Dr Dieng regularly advises governments, international development agencies and civil society organisations on gender-transformative and feminist policies, intersectionality, and decolonisation. She is a member of the Scottish Government Research Advisory Group for the Women and Girls Fund Evaluation and an advisory board member for ActionAidUK.
Dr Dieng is the recipient of the 2025 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in field research.
Languages
- Languages fluently spoken: French, English and Wolof
- Education: SOAS (MSc and PhD), Science Po Bordeaux (MA
Regional expertise
Eastern/Middle/Soutern/Western Africa, Western Europe
Thematic expertise
Arts, Culture and Religion; Peace, War, Conflicts and Security; Sustainability and Environment; Democracy and Civil Society; Development and Cooperation; Diplomacy and Governance; Gender, Diversity, Race and Intersectionality.
BOOKS
- Feminism for the World (August 2025), Pluto Press, UK, Collective Book Co-Authored with leading feminist academics: Zahra Ali, Silvia Federici, Verónica Gago, Lola Olufemi, Djamila Ribeiro, Sayak Valencia, Françoise Vergès
- Decolonize Humxnize (2024) co-edited with Dr. Kathryn Toure and Roopal Thaker, Illustrations: Celeste Wamiru, Langaa Research and Publishing
- Gagner le Monde: Sur Quelques Ouvrages Féministes (2023), Éditions La Fabrique, Paris
- Féminismes Africains, Une Histoire Décoloniale (2021), Présence Africaine, Paris
ARTICLES AND SPECIAL ISSUES
- Dieng, R. S. (2024). Racial capitalism and women’s horticultural labour in Senegal: neo- housewifisation and the micro-politics of paternalism, The Journal of Peasant Studies. 52(1),
101–128 - Dieng, R. S. (2024). Speaking out talking back? African feminist politics and decolonial poetics of knowing, organizing, and loving. Review of African Political Economy.
- Dieng, R. S., Haastrup, T., & Kang, A. (2024). Centering Feminists and Feminism in Protests in Africa . Politics & Gender. 2024;20(2):474-477. doi:10.1017/S1743923X22000769
- Special Issue: Food Security, Migration and Agrarian Change in Senegal and Zimbabwe (2023) Dieng, R. S., Vanda, G., & Chambati, W. (Eds.)
