Dieng’s research focuses on feminist international relations, African politics, and feminist political economy analyses of land, labour, social reproduction and food in Africa and Western Europe. 

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. More recently, she has been working on feminist artivism and contentious politics; as well as anti-gender politics and its intersections with American foreign policy in West Africa. 

Since 2022, Dr Dieng is the co-convenor of the joint European Association of Development Training and Research Institute and UK Development Studies Association (EADI-DSA) Working group on the Political Economy and Political Ecology of Land, Labour and Food. She is also the Program Chair (2026-28) of the International Studies Association’s Feminist Theory and Gender Section (FTGS). 

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. 

Dr Dieng is the recipient of the 2025 Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in field research. She holds degrees in Political Science and International Studies from the Bordeaux Institute of Political Studies (Science Po Bordeaux) and the University of Bordeaux, France, an MSc and PhD from the SOAS, University of London, UK, and a Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice from the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Languages

• Languages fluently spoken: French, English and Wolof

   

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 (February 2024) co-edited with Dr. Kathryn Toure and Roopal Thaker, Illustrations: Celeste Wamiru, Langaa Research and Publishing
• Gagner le Monde: Sur Quelques Héritages Féministes, Éditions La Fabrique, Paris Collective Book
• Féminismes Africains, Une Histoire Décoloniale (interviews) (2021) Présence Africaine, Paris
• Feminist Parenting, Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, (2020), peer-reviewed book co-edited by Dieng, R. S., Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, Canada

ARTICLES AND SPECIAL ISSUES

• Dieng, R.S. (2025) Interviews with Diao Camara, A., Sow, M., Sonko, M., Ndoye, F. Agroecology, Food Sovereignty and Land Citizenship in Senegal: Ecofeminist Perspectives. Politique africaine, 109-142. https://doi.org/10.3917/polaf.177.0109
• 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) From Yewwu Yewwi to #FreeSenegal: Class, Gender and Generational Dynamics of Radical Feminist Activism in Senegal, Politics & Gender, 1-7. doi:10.1017/S1743923X2200071X
• 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
• 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., Vanda, G., & Chambati, W. (2023), Special Issue: Food Security, Migration and Agrarian Change in Senegal and Zimbabwe
  - Introduction (Co-author): Agrarian Change, Food Security, Migration and Sustainable Development in Senegal and Zimbabwe 
  - Article (Sole Author): ‘Adversely Incorporated yet Moving up the Social Ladder?’: Labour Migrants Shifting the Gaze from Agricultural Investment Chains to ‘Care Chains’ in Capitalist Social Reproduction in Senegal
• Dieng, R. S., 2020, ‘Being, Being with, Becoming and Doing With: Bringing the Social back in Land Grab Debates, Policy paper, Bread and Butter Series, African Women’s Development Fund, 18 pages 
• Dieng, R. S., (2017) ‘Land grabbing’ & the politics of evidence: The case of Senegal, in Africa Insight Journal 46 (4) Investment on Land or Land Grabbing? Land Reform, Agricultural Production and Food Security in Africa
• Dieng, R. S. (2016) Book Review: Ndèye Sokhna Guèye (Ed.) (2015), Mouvements sociaux des femmes au Sénégal (Women’s Social Movements in Senegal) in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Vol 5, Issue1, pp. 126 – 128
   

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Dieng, R. S. 2024. Feminist political economy, land, and decolonisation in Africa and the Global South. Chapter In Decolonize Humxnize, co-edited by Dr. Kathryn Toure and Roopal Thaker, Langaa Research and Publishing.
• Dieng R. S., 2023, Bien sûr que la parole est une arme! La Revue Awa et le Journal Fippu comme plateformes d’expression des féministes en lutte en Afrique (de 1957 à la fin des années 1980), Chapter in Gagner le Monde: Sur Quelques Héritages Féministes (Éditions La Fabrique, Paris) 
• Dieng, R. S., 2019, ‘Gone Native?’: Reflections of a feminist tightrope walker’s research on ‘land grabbing’ and the dilemmas of ‘Fieldworking while Parenting at home', in Jackson, R. & Kelly, M. (2019) Women Researching in Africa. The Impact of Gender, Palgrave , p.27-50 Springer International Publishing AG ISBN 978-3-319-94502-6