Tamta Khalvashi

Tamta Khalvashi is an Executive Director of the Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region. She is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Georgia. Her research is concerned with cultural transmission, borderland imagination and citizenship in north-eastern border region in Turkey.  In 2008, she was a Visiting Study Fellow at International Gender Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford.  Recent publications include ‘Ideal Scheme’ or ‘Passing over the Rainbow’: Transmission of Georgian Cultural Identity among the Fereydani Gorjis in the peer reviewed Journal Iran and the Caucasus, Volume 12, 2008. She gave her paper, “Being Between Two Waters”: Transmission of Georgian Ethnic Identity, State Official Narrative and Imagination at  the Conference on Caucasus Studies, University of Malmo, Sweden.

Contact: t.khalvashi@ug.edu.ge