Direction:Sociology
Position:Assistant Professor
Maia Araviashvili has graduated from Telavi I. Gogebashvili State University and got my BA in Sociology, in 2004. She received MA degree at Tbilisi State University, at the Center for Social Sciences (2005) in Social Sciences. The subject of the MA thesis was “Civil Society in Georgia”. She has graduated PhD program and defended her thesis at Ilia State University in 2015. Maia’s research thesis dealt with “Gender Aspects of Inheritance Distribution in Georgian Culture”.
For the past few years, within the different academic fellowship and post-doctoral programs she was a visiting scholar at various academic institutions. Maia was the Faculty Development Program Fellow at the New School for Social Research (NY, USA); a participant of the Workshop series on “Global Approaches to Gender and Law” at Univeristy of Lucerne, Switzerland; the researcher at the New School for Social Research within the Scholarship for Georgian PhD students by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and a scholar at the Free University of Berlin by Joint Rustaveli-DAAD-fellowship Programme.
Scientific interests / research interests
Gender Studies, Formal and Informal Organizations of Civil Society, Migration and Identity Transformation Issues.
Featured publications
GENDER ASPECTS OF INHERITANCE MANAGEMENT IN GEORGIA: CULTURAL PRACTICES VS LAW REGULATIONS, Problems of Management in the 21stcentury Vol. 9, No. 3, 2014
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Sociology of Gender; Gender Aspects of Women’s Property Rights Research as a Project (for sociologists); Civil Society in Georgia; Gender Aspects of Women’s Property Rights |
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