SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

Direction:Sociology and Demography
Position:Associate Professor





Ana Kirvalidze earned her BA and MA in Sociology at Ivane Javakhishvili State University. She worked on her Ph.D. at the Ilia State University and the University of Fribourg. She was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She studied social research methods at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) methods schools, and studied at the Arizona State University program in Advanced Social Science Research. Her research interests include post-Soviet transformations, and particulary its socio-cultural consequences. She has published on the formation proess of collective memory and identity in contemporary Georgia in peer-reviewed journals such  as Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, and Identity Studies. She is a member of the Association of the Study of Nationalities. She organizes the Annual Sociological Conference at Ilia State University which is devoted to social problems as well as new challenges in sociology.

She is a member of the European Sociological Association.

Scientific interests / research interests

Socio-cultural Transformations in the South Caucasus, Memory, Identity, Nationalism, Religion, Ethnic Identities, Values, Social Stratification.

Featured publications

  • Collective memory and reputational politics of national heroes and villains, Co-authored with Alexi Gugushvili, Peter Kabachnik & Ana Kirvalidze (2017): Nationalities Papers, The Journal of Nationalism and Ethnicity, DOI: 10.1080/00905992.2016.1261821
  • Collective Memory, National Identity, and Contemporary Georgian Perspectives on Stalin and the Soviet Past, Alexi Gugushvili, Peter Kabachnik & Ana Kirvalidze (2016)
  • Soviet memory in the national Identity formation process: the case of Georgia”, Identity Studies” Vol. 5. (2014)

Books

  • Stalin Today: Contending with the Soviet Past in Georgia, Kabachnik, Peter, Kirvalidze, Ana, and Gugushvili, Alexi. 2016. Tbilisi: Ilia State University Press.

Current Courses

Course Catalog

Contemporary Theories in Sociology; Classical Theories in  Sociology; Postmodern and Contemporary Social Theories
  • Theories of European Identity, Fall Semester, MA
  • Sociological Theory, Fall Semester, MA
  • Qualitative Methods in Social Research, Fall Semester, BA
  • Economic Sociology, in German, Spring Semester MA
  • Sociological Research Methods, Spring Semester, MA