Tamar Japaridze

Holds a B.A., a M.A. Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Toronto.Currently is a professor at the Ilia State University’s Faculty of the  Arts and Sciences. Research  interests are in the area of European history of Ideas, Enlightenment, ethics , aesthetics.

Nino Danelia

Nino Danelia is a head of a program “Journalism and Media Research” at Ilia State University. She is a full professor of mass communication at Ilia State University and an invited professor at Caucasus School of Journalism and Media Management. Danelia’s research interests are in democracy and public sphere, Soviet dissident communication, and journalism professional […]

Nino Kirvalidze

Nino Kirvalidze graduated from Tbilisi State Institute of Foreign Languages in 1970 majoring in the English and the Spanish languages. In 1981 she defended her candidate dissertation (Ph.D Thesis) at Moscow Moris Torez State Institute of Foreign Languages. In 1991 she defended her second dissertation, Habilitation Thesis, at Moscow State University of Linguistics and was […]

Giorgi Gvalia

2021 – Present Vice Rector for Academic Affairs/Education Ilia State University In 2000-2004 Giorgi Gvalia studied International Relations at the School of International Law and International Relations at Tbilisi State University. In 2007 he completed his MA degree in International Relations at the School of Social and Political Sciences at Tbilisi State University. In 2013 […]

Teo Khatiashvili

In 1990 graduated from Tbilisi State University, specialty of History and Theory of Art. In 1997 defended her candidate dissertation on “Mythological-Metaphorical World of Sergei  Parajanov”. Associate professor of Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Cinema University in 1998-2014 and Ilia State University since 2014. In different years she taught the history of cinema in training-television centre, […]

Ketevan Gurchiani

Ketevan Gurchiani is a professor of anthropology at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is particularly interested in lived religion, the domesticated and undomesticated nature of the city, and informal practices of resistance. Since 2020, Ketevan Gurchiani has been leading the project: “Tbilisi as an Urban Assemblage” (https://urbanassemblage.iliauni.edu.ge). In this project she is interested […]

Atinati Mamatsashvili-Kobakhidze

In 1999 Atinati Mamatsashvili obtained Master degree in Western European Languages and Literature (specialization: French) at the Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Georgia). In 1999 she obtained Master I in Humanities and in 2001 Master II in Literature and Arts, both at the Université Aix-Marseille (France). In 2006 Mamatsashvili obtained her PhD degree in General […]

Ana Kordzaia Samadashvili

Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili was born in 1968 in Tbilisi.He studied Russian language and literature at Tbilisi State University, in Tbilisi State Institute of Foreign Languages – Chinese language and culture, in 1995 defended the thesis “Linguo-stylistic analysis of the text”.She worked in publishing house “BBT” (Sweden and Lithuania) and “Soma Press”, was an employee of the […]

Nino Tevdoradze

In 1995, Nino Tevdoradze graduated from Tbilisi Ilia Chavchavadze State Institute of Foreign languages  with  a bachelor’s degree with honors (specialization in  Pedagogy of English and French Languages). From 1996 to 1999, she studied as a postgraduate student at the same University (specialization –  Germanic Languages (linguistics). In 2003, she defended the doctoral dissertation  – […]

Irina Lortkipanidze

Irina Lortkipanidze graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili State University Faculty of Philology (Russian Language and Literature) in 1986. Worked at Georgian Polytechnic University during 1986-1999 and at Tbilisi Ilia Chavchavadze State University of Languages and Culture during 1999-2006. Defended her PhD dissertation on “Linguistic Representation of Concepts of Good and Evil in Russian Phraseology” in 2006. […]