Nutsa Batiashvili

Nutsa Batiashvili is a cultural anthropology PhD student at Washington University, St Louis, USA. She holds BA and MA in Social Psychology, Tbilisi State University and Graduate Diploma in Anthropology from Oxford Brookes University. She works on issues of collective memory and political change in Georgia exploring historical consciousness, collective memory and emergence of national narratives as part of Georgia’s public discourse within a larger context of contemporary political shifts. With Professor James Wertsch she co-authored a paper ‘Mnemonic Communities and Conflict: Georgia’s national narrative template’, given at the conference ‘Trust and Distrust in Intergroup Conflict and Communication’ in Naples, Italy, June 2008.