Nino Mindadze

Nino Mindadze is a chief scientific researcher at Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology. Her present research interests are medical anthropology and human ecology. She obtained her PhD in 2000 and got the degree of Doctor of historical sciences on the thesis- Georgian Folk Medicine Culture. She was a chief of Department of Ethnological Research of Georgian Spiritual Culture, at Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology. She is the author of the books - Georgian Folk Medicine, Tbilisi, 1981, (in Georgian); and Georgian Folk Medical Traditions -Kakheti, Tbilisi, 2005, (in Georgian; co-author N. Chirgadze). Recently she has participated in conference, such as: International Conference: Archaeology, Ethnology and Folklore of the Caucasus, Baku, 2005 (Azerbaijan) and Symposium of International Centre for Socio-cultural Anthropology and Ethno-linguistic Study of Georgian People, Batumi, 2006.

Margharita Lundkvist-Houndoumadi, Master’s degree student, Department of Social Anthropology and Ethnography, Aarhus University, Denmark, is a field research student at the Center for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region. Margharita is currently conducting a four-month-long fieldwork on how women’s emigration from Georgia affects their families, who stay behind. There is a growing temporary migration amongst women, many of whom are separated from their families for several years while working abroad. The women’s migration creates new forms of relations and role distributions between the migrant women and their families in Georgia. The fieldwork is seeking to examine the meanings and consequences of the women’s absence on the family members that stay behind in Georgia, as well as the new roles and transnational relations that are formed.  

Via the Center, Data Chigholashvili, who is a student from the School of Humanities as well as the Center co-ordinator, has been attached to the fieldwork research providing assistance and functioning as interpreter during several interviews. At the end of her fieldwork Margharita Lundkvist-Houndoumadi will give a presentation to the students of the School of Humanities, University of Georgia, regarding the fieldwork methodology.

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Shalva Dundua

Shalva Dundua obtained university degrees in Education, political analyses and Psychotherapy.  He became a candidate of Pedagogical Sciences in 1991. He has published About 30 articles, reports, and papers in Georgian, Russian and English languages, such as: Citizenship Education in the Secondary School; (Content and Organization), In M.Dogonadze (Ed.) - Currant Problems of Educational development at School, Tbilisi, 1999; Interactive Teaching across Cultures. Interactive Teaching and Learning across Disciplines and Cultures – Case Method & Other Techniques, Edited by Hans E. Klein. Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 2001; School – Family – Society (a Guidebook for PTA Leaders and Activists), 2002, Tbilisi, Georgia.  In 2006 – 2007 he was a Visiting Scholar at Muskie School of Public Services, University of Southern Maine in Portland, USA. Currently he is a full time professor at the University of Georgia.

Research Fellow of CBSR, Dr. Janette Davies donated the books from the International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford to the Centre for the Study of Caucasus and Black Sea Region. The following books are kept at the centre and are available for the members of the centre and research fellows.   

Donated Book List:

·         Ardener, E. (1989). The Voice of Prophecy and Other Essays. Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd.

·         Bryceson, F.D., Okely, J., Weber, J. (eds.). (2007). Identity and Networks: Fashioning Gender and ethnicity Across Cultures. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

·         Chatty, D., Rabo, A. (eds.). (1997). Organizing Women: Formal and Informal Women’s Groups in the Middle East. Oxford: Berg.

·         Macdonald, S., Holden, P., Ardener, S. (eds.). (1987). Images of Women in Peace and War: Cross-Cultural and Historical Perspectives. Oxford: Macmillan Education.

·         Russell, A., Sobo, J. E., Thompson, S.M. (eds.). (2000). Contraception Across Cultures. Oxford: Berg.

·         Barnes, R., Eicher, B.J. (eds.). (1992). Dress and Gender: Making and Meaning. Oxford: Berg.

·         Coles, A., Wallace, T. (eds.). (2005). Gender, Water and Development. Oxford: Berg.

·         Maynard, K. (ed.). (2007). Medical Identities: Healing, Well-Being and Personhood. Oxford: Berghahn Books.

·         Burton, P., Dyson, K. K., Ardener, S. (eds.). (1994). Bilingual Women: Anthropological Approaches to Second Language Use. Oxford: Berg.