Jones Stephen Francis
Mühlfried Florian
Florian Mühlfried is a social anthropologist working on the Caucasus, particularly on Georgia, for more than twenty years. Before having joined the Ilia State University as a full professor for social anthropology, he was an assistant professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany), visiting professor at UNICAMP (Brazil), research fellow at the Max Planck […]
Tsira Kilanava
Tsira Kilanava (12.02.1983. Sokhumi) successfully earned BA and MA in Philology at Ivane Javakhishvili State University in 2004-2006. She was awarded with a degree of Doctor at the faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies at Ilia State University in 2012. She defended the doctoral thesis with the topic of – The Models of Marking of […]
Rusudan Gersamia
1989-1995 BA – University of Sulchan-Saba Orbeliani, Faculty of Georgian Filology 1997-2000 MA – University of Sulchan-Saba Orbeliani, Department of Lingusitics, Kartvelian Languages. PhD – Kartvelian Languages 2004 BA – University of Sulchan-Saba Orbeliani, Faculty of Georgian Filology MA – University of Sulchan-Saba Orbeliani, Department of Lingusitics, Kartvelian Languages. PhD – Kartvelian Languages 2019- today […]
Elene Ladaria
Having graduated from Tbilisi Iakob Nikoladze Art College with a degree in painting, in 2003 Elene Ladaria continued her studies in philosophy and social sciences and in 2007 received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Ilia State University. In 2009-2010 he continued his studies in German Idealism and 20th-century French Philosophers and earned a triple […]
Ketevan Shengelia
Ketevan Shengelia was born in Tbilisi. She started attending her first piano classes at a Specialised Music School for especially gifted children. She continued her studies at Tbilisi State Conservatoire piano faculty. It was here that her interest in ensmeble playing and music esthetics was born. This had resulted in Ketevan doing doctoral studies in […]
Irma Kirtadze
Irma Kirtadze, M.D. Ph.D., – graduated from State Medical Academy of Georgia in 2006 and received qualification of Psychiatrist. Dr. Kirtadze studied public health research at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam in 2005 and drug abuse research at the Amsterdam University. Dr. Kirtadze was awarded the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) young psychiatrists award and the first […]
Tatia Kekelia
Tatia Kekelia graduated from Ilia State University, the field of sociology, and defended her thesis at the same university in May 2018, titled “The Shock of Publicity: Conflicting Public and Private Spheres in Contemporary Georgian Society”. As a researcher, she has participated in several projects such as “Strengthening political pluralism in Georgia” (2016), „Human Rights, […]
Nino Skhirtladze
Nino Skhirtladze defended her PhD dissertation in 2015 entitled “Personal Identity Formation in the Georgian Context – Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches”. During her PhD studies and several research projects she worked at the KU Leuven and the University of Miami. Between 2013 – 2017 she worked as an invited lecturer and researcher at Ilia State […]
Elene Gavashelishvili
Elene Gavashelishvili graduated from Ilia State University Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences in 2007. She holds her doctorate from the Department of Sociology at Ilia State University. Her PhD thesis “The Impact of Conflicting Discourses on Reproduction Practices of Georgian Women” looked at lived religion from the anthropological perspective. She has been involved in […]
