Oliver Reisner

Oliver Reisner Obtained his MA and PhD from the Department for Medieval and Modern History and Slavic Philology, at Georg-August University. His dissertation is on: “The School of the Modern Georgian Nation. A Social Inquiry of the Georgian National Movement at the ‘Society for the Spread of Literacy among Georgians’ (1850 – 1917).” He was the research student at Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnography of the Georgian Academy of Sciences and worked on Georgian and Caucasian History. Currently he is the project manager at Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia (DELGEO).  His actual research interests are: History of Caucasian Studies in 20th Century, Formation of social groups in late Soviet Georgia among supporters of rugby, Georgian historiography in the 1990ies, democratisation and conflict management in post-Soviet space, minorities.