Direction:History
Position:Associate Professor
Malkhaz Toria received his doctoral degree (PhD) in history from Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University in 2009. The PhD thesis dealt with the “Perception of Time and a Sense of History in Medieval Georgian Culture”. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Studies at Iv. Javakhishili Tbilisi State University (2006-2008); a research fellow at the Department of the Caucasian Ethnology, Iv. Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology (2006-2010); an assistant professor at the History department of Ilia State University (2008-2014). Currently, he is an associate professor at the same department and the member of the Institute of Comparative Literature within the School of Arts and Sciences. Since 2015 he serves as a director of the Memory Studies Center in the Caucasus at the School of Arts and Sciences. Within a range of post-doctoral fellowships (DAAD, OSF, Fulbright, Rustaveli National Science Foundation, etc.) he conducted research projects at various institutions including Central European University (Budapest, Hungary) in 2009; Zentrum für Literatur-und Kulturforschung (Berlin) in 2010; New School for Social Research (NYC) in 2011 and 2016; Harriman Institute, Columbia University (NYC) in 2013; Mount Holyoke College (South Headley, Massachusetts, US ) in 2014; Humboldt University of Berlin in 2016. Results of his research projects are reflected in relevant teaching courses and academic publications.
Scientific interests / research interests
Malkhaz Toria’s research interests focus on historical discourse in medieval Georgia; memory politics, instrumentalisation of the past and regional conflicts in post-Soviet Georgia; the role of Russain/Tsarist and Soviet imperial legacies in the creation of an ethnic and cultural landscape of Georgia; formation of dividing boundaries, politics of exclusion and ethnic cleansing in modern breakaway Abkhazia region of Georgia
Featured publications
- “Trapped in the past: memories of Georgian IDPs on the margins of society”, Nationalities Papers, 2017 (Forthcoming)
- “Remembering Homeland in Exile: Recollections of IDPs from the Abkhazia Region of Georgia” in Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, Vol 14, No 1, 2015, 48-70.
- “The Soviet Occupation of Georgia in 1921 and the Russian-Georgian War of August 2008: Historical Analogy as a Memory Project“ in The Making of Modern Georgia, 1918–2012: The first Georgian Republic and its Successors. Ed. by Stephen F. Jones. London and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2014, pp. 316-336.
Current Courses |
Course Catalog |
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| Historical research, theoretical approach and methods Introduction to History: What is the Craft of a Historian Studying or Creating Past?; Academic Writing and Research Design in History; Modern Historical Science: Experience and Perspectives; Historical Sociology |
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