Research

Below, you will find a list of current research projects conducted by our staff members.
For more information please visit current projects site.

• JENA-CAUC - Resilience in the South Caucasus: prospects and challenges of a new EU foreign policy concept & JENA-CAUC 2.0 - The South Caucasus after the “Zeitenwende”: from regional resilience to local agency
• Kaukasisches Erzählgut im Diskurs der vergleichenden Märchenforschung (Caucasian narratives in the discourse of comparative fairy tale research)
• Evolution of grammar in East Caucasian: Grammaticalization of unusual patterns of number agreement

• Veronika Pfeilschifter: Ideology, utopia and decolonial resilience: The ‘new’ post-Soviet left in the South Caucasus
• Irena Gonashvili: Europeanization of Waste Management in Armenia and Georgia
• Natia Botkoveli: Educational Migration from Post-Soviet Countries to Germany 
• Vitalii Shtybin: Virtual Circassia: networking for a transnational community
• Rainer Feer: Semantic Transitivity and Ablaut in Circassian and West Caucasian
• Maximilian Grübsch: A Grammar of Chechen

Detailed information about the dissertations

• Language contact in the Caucasus
• LexCauc – A lexical database for the languages of the Caucasus
• Documenting Dargwa languages in Daghestan – Shiri and Sanzhi
• CASCADE – Exploring the Security-Democracy Nexus in the Caucasus
• Transformations of Sacred Spaces, Pilgrimages and Conceptions of Hybridity in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

Detailed information about the projects

• Felix Anker: Reported speech in the languages of the Caucasus
• Natia Reineck: Sprachspezifische und sprachenübergreifende Konzepte für den Fremdsprachenunterricht am Beispiel des Deutschen und des Georgischen als Fremdsprache [Language-specific and cross-linguistic concepts for second language teaching, exemplified by German and Georgian as second languages]
• Joseph Sparsbrod: Everyday Life in Old Tbilisi. Exploration of Cohabitation in a Multiethnic Neighborhood in Tbilisi
• Weronika Zmiejewski: Female labor migrants from Georgia in Greece
• Tamar Khutsishvili: Land use strategies in the Armenian border village Pshatavan

Detailed information about the dissertations

We collaborate with the following institutes, universities and projects in Jena and beyond:

• Chair of International Relations and European StudiesExternal link at the Department of Political Science, FSU Jena
• ZOiSExternal link (Zentrum für Osteuropa- und internationale Studien), Berlin
• MESROPExternal link - Arbeitsstelle für Armenische Studien, University of Halle
• Alte Geschichte de, Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, University of Jena
• Leibniz ScienceCampus »Eastern Europe – Global Area« (EEGAExternal link)
• Georgian Institute of Politics (GIPExternal link)
• Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWPExternal link), Berlin
• CauLaGeNet International Research Network (IRN)

Our partner universities for student exchange programs are specified in this list.