Mitglieder in Georgiren / Members in Georgia

Ilia State University

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DGW-MEMBERS OF ILIA STATE UNIVERSITY

 

School of Arts and Sciences

  • Prof. Dr. David Darchiashvili

    Prof. Dr. David Darchiashvili

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    • Contact: david_darchiashvili@iliauni.edu.ge
    • Faculty: Political Science and International Relations
    • Research focus: Nationalism and geopolitics in the Caucasus and Eastern Europe; regional political elites; recent history of the region
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Simon Runkel
    • Publications:

    1. Darchiashvili, D., & Jones, S. (2020): Georgia: Warlords, Generals, and Politicians. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 

    2. Darchiashvili, D. (2018): Russo-Georgian War of August 2008: Clash of Ideologies and National Projects in the Era of Hybrid Warfare. Sõjateadlane, (7), 12-38.

    3. Darchiashvili, D. (2018): Soviet Path Dependency as an Impediment of the Democratization in Georgia. Modernization in Georgia, 139-164.

    4. Baev, P., Coppieters, B., Cornell, S. E., & Darchiashvili, D. (2003): The South Caucasus: a challenge for the EU (No. 65). Paris: Institute for Security Studies, European Union.

    5. Darchiashvili, D. (1997): Georgia, the search for state security. Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford University.

  • Prof. Dr. Tamar Makharoblidze

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    1. Makharoblidze T. (2024): A Short Grammar of Georgian.  LINCOM.DE; Germany. The second edition. Link 1External linkLink 2External link

    2. Makharoblidze Tamar (2018): On Georgian Preverbs. Open Linguistics. De Gruyter. 2018; Vol. 4, Issue 1: 163–183 Published Online: 2018-06-15 | DOI:  Link 1External link  Link 2External link

    3. Makharoblidze  T. (2015): Georgian Sign Language Dictionary. Ilia State University; Shota Rustaveli National Scientific Foundation. Tbilisi. ISBN 978-9941-16-225-5  1368 pp. LinkExternal link

    4. Makharoblidze T. (2015): Indirect object markers in Georgian Sign Language.  Sign Language & Linguistics. #18 (2) John Benjamins Publishing Company. p.238-250 LinkExternal link

    5. Makharoblidze  T. (2013): BASIC GEORGIAN. 2nd edition.  LINCOM. DE; Germany. LINCOM Practical Language Courses;  ISBN 9783862884674. 364pp. Link 1External link  Link 2External link

    6. Makharoblidze  T. (2012): THE GEORGIAN VERB. LINCOM.DE; Germany.   ISBN 9783862882960. LINCOM Studies in Caucasian Linguistics 20. 656pp.  Link 1External link Link 2External link

  • Prof. Dr. Ekaterine Shaverdashvili

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    1. Shaverdashvili, E.: Ergebnisse einer Studie zur Stellung der Minderheitensprachen in Georgien. In: Geyer, Klaus / Kraeva, Svetlana / Krasnopeyeva, Ekaterina (Hrsg.): Sprachliche Variation und Vielfalt / Linguistic Variation and Diversity. Ausgewählte Beiträge des 53. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Odense, Dänemark / Selected Papers of the 53rd Linguistics Colloquium in Odense, Denmark. 494 S. - Berlin / Bruxelles / Chennai / Lausanne / New York / Oxford: Lang, 2024. ISBN: 978-3-631-84012-2. S. 143-163

    2. Japaridze, D., Maghlakelidze, S., Shaverdashvili, E., & Tutberidze, D. (2024): The Role of Higher Education in Reducing the Mismatch between Graduates’ Skills and Employer Expectations. International Scientific Conference “EDUCATION, RESEARCH, PRACTICE” Proceedings, 5, 300–318. LinkExternal link

    3. Petriashvili&Shaverdashvili&Mosiashvili&Baratashvili (2022):External link Experience in Working with VaKE model in the Georgian Higher Education Space. In: The VaKE Approach. International Handbook. Editors: Weyringer, Patry, Pnevmatikos, Brossard Borhaug. Verlag Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Sense.

    4. Shaverdashvili, Ekaterine and Chkhikvadze, NinoExternal link (2022): "13 English as a Foreign Language in Georgia: From Past to Present". Policies and Practice in Language Learning and Teaching: 20th-century Historical Perspectives, edited by Sabine Doff and Richard Smith, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 289-316. LinkExternal link

    5. Shaverdashvili, Ekaterine&Mosiashvili, TamarExternal link (2018): Knowledge and value education. Introduction. Ilia State University Publishing House Tbilisi. ISBN: 573322-EPP-1-2016-IL-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

  • Associate Professor Archil Abashidze

    Prof. Archil Abashidze

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    • Contact:  archil_abashidze@iliauni.edu.ge
    • Faculty: Politics and Public Administration
    • Research focus: Public administration, civil service, interest groups, corruption
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Olaf Leiße
    • Publications:

    1. Archil Abashidze, Giorgi Selimashvili (2015): Challenges of Recruitment Procedures in the Georgian Civil Service, Romanian Journal of Political Science, Vol 15, number 2, Winter.

    2. Archil Abashidze (2011): State Policy on Volunteerism –  Georgian legislation and the world practice (in Georgian language), OSGF, Tbilisi.

    3. Archil Abashidze (2010): Case: Georgia, in: Effective mechanisms and practices for fighting against corruption in the Black Sea Region: lessons learnt and further steps for Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey and Georgia (Project Report), Bucharest.

    4. Archil Abashidze (2009): Labour Migration from Georgia and bilateral migration agreements: needs and prospects, Policy Review, CIPDD,  Tbilisi, 2009.

    5. Archil Abashidze (2009): Javakheti one year after the August War , Policy Review, CIPDD, Tbilisi 2009.

    6. Archil Abashidze (2008): A Plea for Open Parliaments in the Black Sea Region: Case Georgia (Project Report), Bucharest.

    7. Jessica Schultz, Archil Abashidze (2007): Anti-corruption policy making in practice: Georgia – a Country Case Study, in: Anti-corruption policy making in practice: report of six country case studies, Chr. Michelsen Institute, (in English, French and Spanish languages), Norway.

  • Associate Professor Svetlana Berikashvili

    Dr. Svetlana Berikashvili

    Image: Dr. Svetlana Berikashvili
    • Contact: svetlana.berikashvili@iliauni.edu.ge
    • Link to Website: https://svetlanaberikashvili.com/External link
    • Faculty: Linguistics
    • Research focus: Dr Svetlana Berikashvili’s research interests lie in formal linguistics, more precisely in
      syntactic theory focusing on ergativity issues and case licensing; endangered languages, focusing on morphosyntactic variation and change and language contact issues; morphology; diachronic linguistics; Greek and Georgian grammar; Georgian morphosyntactic computational analysis using special tools for the annotation of universal syntactic dependencies; and corpus linguistics.
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr Diana Forker
    • Publications:

    1. Berikashvili, Svetlana (2024): Differential Subject Marking in Georgian, University of Göttingen
    PhD Thesis, LinkExternal link

    2. Lobzhanidze, Irina, Erekle Maghradze, Svetlana Berikashvili, Anzor Gozalishvili & Tamar
    Jalaghonia (2024): Building a Universal Dependencies Treebank for Georgian. In
    Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 2024), 40-
    45, LinkExternal link

    3. Berikashvili, Svetlana (2022): Contact-Induced Change in the Domain of Grammatical Gender
    in Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia. Languages 7(2):79,
    LinkExternal link

    4. Berikashvili, Svetlana (2021): Does Ergative Case Assigning depend on Transitivity Condition
    in Georgian? Kadmos 11. 6-54; LinkExternal link

    5. Berikashvili, Svetlana (2017): Morphological Aspects of Pontic Greek spoken in Georgia,
    Munich: LINCOM. LW 54: Morphological Aspects of Pontic Greek Spoken in Georgia

  • Associate Professor Rusudan Gersamia

    Associate Professor Rusudan Gersamia

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    • Contact: rgersamia@iliauni.edu.ge
    • Faculty: Georgian Philology
    • Research focus: Field research and digital processing of the Kartvelian languages (Mengrelian and Lasic); morphosyntax of Mengrelian and Lasic; investigation of linguistic contacts and sociolinguistic questions.
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Elguja Dadunashvili, Dr. Natia Reineck
    • Publications:

    1. Gersamia, R., Lobzhanidze, I., (2025): Encoding the Progressive Aspect in Megrelian Verbs (Rusudan Gersamia, Irina Lobzhanidze). Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences (Moambe). 19 (1), Pp. 113–117. LinkExternal link

    2. Lobzhanidze, I., Gersamia, R., Tsulaia, N. (2024): Compiling a bilingual Megrelian-English online dictionary – Preserving endangered Kartvelian languages. In K. Š. Despot, A. Ostroški Anić, & I. Brač (Eds.), Lexicography and Semantics: Proceedings of the XXI EURALEX International Congress (pp. 647–661). European Association for Lexicography. LinkExternal link

    3. Gersamia, R., (2022): The linguistic construal of space in Megrelian and Laz. ISSUES IN KARTVELIAN STUDIES (series in Languages and Linguistics). Chapter 4. Ed. Tamar Makharoblidze; peer- reviewed open access jou nal. USA. Vernon Press. Pp. LinkExternal link

    4. Gersamia, R., (2022): The Morphonemics of Verbal Prefixes in Megrelian. Construire sur les décombres de Babel : Building on Babel’s rubble. Chapter 2. Eds.: Nora Boneh, Daniel Harbour, Ora Matushansky, Isabelle Roy; peer-reviewed open access journal.  Paris 8: Presses Universitaires de Vincennes PUV. Pp.37-59. (Book Chapter). LinkExternal link

    5. Kobalava I., Gersamia R., (2020):  Space and Motion in Language Representation (Analyses of Megrelian and Laz Linguistic Data). Universali. Tb. pp. 252 LinkExternal link

  • Assistant Professor Salome Pataridze

    Salome Pataridze

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    • Contact: salome.pataridze@iliauni.edu.ge
    • Faculty: Literary Studies,  Comparative Literary Studies
    • Research focus: Feminist literary studies, women's writing, memory studies and literature
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Michael Schart
    • Publications:

    1. Pataridze, S. (2025): The Role and Significance of Remembering in the Texts of Zaira Arsenishvili and Herta Müller (When Fear and Dread Rage and The King Bows and Kills).  Alma Mater Journal of Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies.
    LinkExternal link

    2. Pataridze, S. (2023): Semantic Function of Spatial Experiences and Memories in The Southern Elephant by Archil Kikodze and Zinka Adamiani by Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili. Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, 11(22), 204-215. LinkExternal link

    3. Pataridze, S. (2023): Die Bedeutung der subversiven Sprache in Ingeborg Bachmanns und Ana Kalandadzes Lyrik. Wege der Germanistik in
    transkultureller Perspektive. Akten des XIV. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG) (Bd. 4) - Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik. Peter Lang. 407-413. LinkExternal link

    4. Pataridze, S. (2020): Prospects of using a narratological approach and possible-worlds theory to the study of poetic texts based on the example of poems of Ingeborg Bachmann and Lia Sturua. International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics, Vol. 6, No. 2, June . 94-98 LinkExternal link

    5. Pataridze, S. (2023): Representation Of Sexuality And Identity In The Works Of Georgian Female Authors Of The First Half Of The 20th Century. Journal of Survey in Fisheries Sciences. 10(1S) 6334-6341.Link 1External link, Link 2External link

  • Assistant Professor Teona Damenia

    Teona Damenia

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    • Contact: teona.damenia@iliauni.edu.ge
    • Faculty: Linguistics
    • Research focus: Properties of language acquisition
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Diana Forker,  Prof. Dr. Melanie Weirich, Prof. Dr. Adrian Simpson, Nato Sulaberidze 
    • Publications:

    1. T. Tchintcharauli, N. Tsintsadze, T. Damenia, T.  Kalkhitashvili, N. Doborjginidze, Sigal Uziel-Karl (2024): Establishing guidelines for MLU measurement in an agglutinating language: An illustration of Georgian, First Language, 1–27, 2024 LinkExternal link

    2. T. Makharoblidze, T. Damenia, N. Doborjginidze, N. Tsintsadze, T. Tchintcharauli, T. Kalkhitashvili (2022): Argument Marking and Verbal Agreement in the Speech of Georgian Children, Languages, 7(4), 314 LinkExternal link

School of Natural Sciences and Medicine

  • Associate Professor Nils Hein
    • Contact: nils.hein@iliauni.ede.ge
    • Link to Website: https://faculty.iliauni.edu.ge/engi/niels-hine/?lang=enExternal link
    • Faculty: Ecology and Geography
    • Research focus: My research is superiorly organized along environmental gradients; these are temporal succession states in ecosystems (e.g. in coastal areas), spatial gradients (e.g. elevation, microtopography) in mountain areas, and hemeroby levels (e.g. land use). I am particularly focusing on comparative high mountain research and multiple geographical phenomena from global to local scales.
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Simon Runkel
    • Publications:

    1.  WELLENBECK, A., FEHRMANN, L., FEILHAUER, H., SCHMIDTLEIN, S., MISOF, B., & HEIN, N. (2024): Discriminating Woody Species Assemblages from National Forest Inventory Data Based on Phylogeny in Georgia. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11569. LinkExternal link

    2. HEIN, N., ASTRIN, J., BECKERS, N., GIEBNER, H., LANGEN, K., LÖFFLER, J., MISOF, B. & FONSECA, V. (2024): Arthropod Diversity in the Alpine Tundra using Metabarcoding: Spatial and Temporal Differences in Alpha- and Beta-Diversity. Ecology and Evolution. LinkExternal link

    3. TARKHNISHVILI, D., SEROPIAN, A., ERHARDT, C., KACHLISHVILI, N., KRAMMER, H.-J., & HEIN, N. (2024): How Dispersal Rates Depend on the Prey Capture Strategy: A Case Study of Georgia´s Spiders. Ecology and Evolution, 14, e11372. LinkExternal link

    4. HEIN, N., LÖFFLER, J. & FEILHAUER, H. (2019): Mapping of Arthropod Alpha and Beta Diversity in Heterogeneous Arctic-Alpine Ecosystems. Ecological Informatics, 54, 101007. LinkExternal link

    5. HEIN, N., PÉTILLON, J., PAPE, R., FEILHAUER, H., VANSELOW, K. A. & LÖFFLER, J. (2019): Broad-Scale Rather than Fine-Scale Environmental Variation Drives Body Size in a Wandering Predator (Araneae, Lycosidae). Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research, 51, 315–326. LinkExternal link 

Tbilisi State University

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DGW-MEMBERS OF TIBLISI STATE UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Humanities

  • Prof. Dr. Levan Gordeziani

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    • Contact:  levan.gordeziani@tsu.ge
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    • Faculty: World history
    • Research focus: The Caucasus in Cuneiform Texts, Terminological Studies on the Social History of the Ancient World, Mythology as a Historical Source
    • Cooperation: Prof.Dr. Timo Stickler, Prof.Dr. Annegret Plontke-Lüning, Dr. Frank Schleicher 
    • Publications:

    1. L. Gordeziani (2025): Vorchristliche Mythologie(n) und religiöse Praktiken im (Süd-)Kaukasus in: Manfred Hutter (Hrsg.): Religionen im Kaukasus (Die Religionen der Menschheit 4,4), Stuttgart: Verlag W. Kohlhammer 2025, 21-36.

    2. L. Gordeziani (2019): Könige und Hauptstädte in urartäischen Texten. M. Béranger, F. Nebiolo & N. Ziegler (éd.), Dieux, rois et capitales dans le Proche-Orient ancien. Compte rendu de la LXVe Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Paris, 8-12 juillet 2019), Publications de l’Institut du Proche-Orient ancien du Collège de France (PIPOAC) 5, Peeters, Leuven/Paris/Bristol, CT, 2023, 563-573.

    3. L. Gordeziani, I. Tatišvili, (2019): Einige Bemerkungen zur Ethnizität in den hethitischen Texten. „And I Knew Twelve Languages” A Tribute to Massimo Poetto on the Occasion of His 70 th Birthday. Edited by Natalia Bolatti Guzzo and Piotr Taracha, Agade Bis, Warsaw 2019, 221-228.

    4. L. Gordeziani (2018): On the Ethnic Picture of South-West Georgia in Cuneiform Texts. Ancient Metallogenic Centre of
    Georgia (Ajara). New Discoveries, Contacts with Eastern Civilizations, Innovations, Perspectives.
    Proceedings of the International Conference (Batumi, June 25-28, 2018). Batumi 2019, 176-185. 

    5. L. Gordeziani: Iberien zwischen Rom und Iran. Phasis 2018-19, 171-174.

  • Prof. Dr. Dali Kandelaki

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    • Contact: Prof. Dr. Dali Kandelaki
    • Link to Website:
    • Faculty: Institute of Slavic Studies
    • Research focus: History of relations between Russia and the Caucasus countries in European sources (18th-20th century), Relations between Georgia and Russia in German sources (18th-20th century). Fragments of Georgian history in German periodicals of the 18th century.
    • Cooperation:
    • Publications:

    1. Ausländer, die im Dienste der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in den Kaukasus reisen. Georgische Diplomatie. Jahrbuch, Bd. 20, Verlag „Artanuj“, Tbilisi, 2024. S.447 – 465. ISSN 1512-1518 (in der georgischen Sprache). LinkExternal link

    2. Deutsche Kolonien in Georgien: Reisenotizen ausländischer Autoren. In: Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Artikel „Vakhtang Guruli – 70“. Georgischer Universitätsverlag, Tbilisi, 2023.
    S. 195–206. ISBN 978-9941-8-6091-1 (in der georgischen Sprache). LinkExternal link

    3. Interethnische Konflikte im Kaukasus: Reisenotizen von Claude Anet. In: HISTORY,
    ARCHAEOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, [S.l.], n. VIII, XII, 2022. P. 209 – 217. Online ISSN: 2449-
    285X (in russischer Sprache) LinkExternal link

    4. Unbekannter Kaukasus (nach ausländischen Quellen des 19. Jahrhunderts), Tbilisi University
    Publishing House, Tbilisi, 2019. 114 S. ISBN 978-9941-13-843-0 (in der georgischen Sprache). LinkExternal link

    5. Interviews/Erfahrungen der Angehörigen von Opfern. In.: Bolschewistische Ordnung in
    Georgien. Der Grosse Terror in einer kleinen kaukasischen Republik. Oldenburg, DE
    GRUYTER. S. 278-317. Bd. 1. 2015. (Marc Junge, Dali Kandelaki und Bernd Bonwetsch). LinkExternal link

  • Prof. Dr. Zaal Kikvidze

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    • Contact: Zaal.kikvidze@tsu.ge; zaalk@yahoo.com
    • Link to Website:
    • Faculty: Arnold Chikobava Institute of Linguistics
    • Research focus: Sociolinguistics; language and gender; corpus linguistics; cognitive linguistics
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Diana Forker
    • Publications:

    1. Kikvidze, Zaal (2023): Two Landmarks in Early British Caucasus Studies. Tbilisi: Samshoblo. [in collaboration with Levan Pachulia] 

     

     

     

     

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    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/387715817_zaal_kikvidze _levan_pachulia_ori_nishansveti_adreul_britanul_kavkasiologiashi_ Kikvidze_Zaal_Levan_Pachulia_2023_TWO_LANDMARKS_IN_ EARLY_BRITISH_CAUCASUS_STUDIESExternal link

    2. Kikvidze, Zaal (2021): A Glossary of Sociolinguistic Terms. Tbilisi: TSU Press.LinkExternal link

    3. Kikvidze, Zaal (2015): Essays in Sociolinguistics. Tbilisi: TSU Press. LinkExternal link

    4. Kikvidze, Zaal (2010): Language, Gender, and Nationalism. Tbilisi: Universal.LinkExternal link

    5. Kikvidze, Zaal (1999): Grammatical Means Expressing Politeness.Tbilisi: Besarion Jorbenadze Society. LinkExternal link

  • Prof. Dr. Vakhtang Licheli

    Portrait of Prof. Vakhtang Licheli

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    • Contact: vakhtang.licheli@tsu.ge
      vakhlich@hotmail.com
    • Link to Website: https://vakhtang-licheli.ge/en/
    • Faculty: Program of Archaeology
    • Research focus: Late Bronze - Early Iron Age Archaeology
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Timo Stickler, Prof. Dr. Annegret Plontke-Luening
    • Publications:

    1. V. Licheli (2021): The Stages of Development of the Script in Georgia of the Pagan Age. In: Caucasica Antiqua et Christiana. Warsaw, Local.

    2. V. Licheli (2020): Intellectual Innovations in Georgia (11th-9th Centuries BC). Excavations at Grakliani Hill/ ACSS, 26 Brill.

    3. V. Licheli (2020): The second stage of the Grakliani Culture. In: Wonders Lost and Found. A celebration of the archaeological work of Professor Michael Vickers. edited by Nicholas Sekunda, Archaeopress Archaeology, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

    4. V.Licheli (2016):Georgchaeology of Phasis. In: Mediterranee, n 126 – 2016, Aix Marseille Universite, Presses Universitaires de Provnse, Journal of Mediterrannean Geography.

    5. V. Licheli (2015): Achaemeneid type pottery in Central Transcaucasia and eastern Anatolia- one way of development. In: International Symposium on East Anatolia – South Caucasus Cultures. Proceeding II, Ed. M. Ishikli and M. Birol Can, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • Prof. Dr. Rusudan Zekalashvili

    Prof. Dr. Rusudan Zekalashvili

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    • Contact: rusudan.zekalashvili@tsu.ge
    • Link to Website:
    • Faculty: Georgische Philologie
    • Research focus: Morphology and syntax of the Georgian language, scientific terminology, linguistic behaviour in Georgian, Georgian-German lexicography, Georgian as a second language
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Diana Forker, Dr. Natia Reineck
    • Publications:

    1. Georgisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch, 3., erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage. Tiflis: Verlag „Matsne Georgiens“, 2024. – 1480 S.

    2. Deutsch-Georgisches Wörterbuch (Mitautor: Tschabuki Kiria), 3., erweiterte und überarbeitete Auflage. Tiflis: Verlag „Matsne Georgiens“, 2024. – 924 S. Online verfügbar unter:
    http://www.nplg.gov.ge/gwdict/index.php?a=index&d=44
    https://www.translate.geExternal link

    3. Raphiël Schamelaschwili – Wissenschaftler und Mensch (zum 100. Geburtstag), Tiflis: Verlag „Universali“, 2022. – 304 S.
    Online verfügbar unter:
    https://dspace.tsu.ge/server/api/core/bitstreams/2445bf77-227f-432f-9a96-35a0ae394f00/content

    4. Georgische dialogische Rede (linguistische und extralinguistische Grundlagen), Tiflis: Verlag „Universali“, 2012. – 236 S.
    Online verfügbar unter:
    https://dspace.nplg.gov.ge/bitstream/1234/144348/1/Qartuli_Dialoguri_Metyveleba.pdf

    5. Georgische Sprache (ein kurzer praktischer Kurs), Tiflis: Verlag „Logosi“, 2018. – 242 S.
    Online verfügbar unter:
    http://www.geofl.ge/resource/researchText/მოკლე%20პრაქტიკული%20კურსი.pdf

  • Associate Professor Giuli Shabashvili

    Dr. Giuli Shabashvili

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    • Contact: giuli.shabashvili@tsu.ge
    • Link to Website
    • Faculty: Georgian Philology Program
    • Research focus: Second language learning/teaching, sociolinguistics, verbal semantics
    • Cooperation: Dr. Natia Reineck
    • Publications:

    1. Thessaloniki Institute of Modern Greek Studies. https://www.ins.web.auth.gr/images/MEG_PLIRI/MEG_42_375_384.pdfExternal link

    2. Gabunia, K., Gochitashvili, K., & Shabashvili, G. (2022): Placing Language in the Centre of Schooling. Educational Role of Language Journal, 2022(1[7]), 47–57. Link 1External link
    Link 2External link

    3. Shabashvili, G., Nikolaishvili, M., Bagration-Davitashvili, N.  (2021): The Development of Perfect Semantics and Its Grammatical Realization in Georgian. Tbilisi. LinkExternal link

    4. Shabashvili, G., & Gochitashvili, K. (2020): Practical Activities and Their Theoretical Background in Second Language and Culture Integrated Teaching. Educational Role of Language Journal, 2020(2[4]), 29–41. Link 1External link
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    5. Gochitashvili, K., & Shabashvili, G. (2018): The Role of Tutors’ Feedback in Writing E-Course. International Journal of Multilingual Education, 12, 49–57. LinkExternal link

  • Zurab Baratashvili
    • Contact: zurab.baratashvili@tsu.ge
    • Link to Website:
    • Faculty: General and Applied Linguistics (postgraduate (master))
    • Research focus: morphosyntax, typology, field linguistics, Georgian language, Sumerian language, Ipiko language
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Diana Forker
    • Publications:

    1. Translanguaging as a Tool for Correcting EFL Learners’ Errors in Writing (co-author Khatuna
    Buskivadze), International Journal for Multilingual Education, volume 22, Ivane Javakhishvili
    Tbilisi State University, 2023 LinkExternal link

    2. A descriptive account of Sylheti case-marking and passive constructions (co-authors Elisabeth
    Marie Thaut, Andriana Koumbarou). In the journal: Language Documentation ad Description 18,
    SOAS, University of London, 2020 LinkExternal link

    3. Compounds or phrases? Pattern borrowing from English into Georgian (co-authors Nino
    Amiridze, Rusudan Asatiani), Language, Logic, and Computation: 12th International Tbilisi
    Symposium, TbiLLC 2017, Lagodekhi, Georgia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers
    12, Springer Publishing House, 2019 LinkExternal link

    4. The Types of the Causative Construction in Georgian. In the journal: Bulletin of the Georgian
    National Academy of Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1 (in English), 2019 LinkExternal link

    5. Syntactic transitivity and valency: what are the theoretical possibilities, and how do they
    combine? Explaining the Cross-Linguistic Distribution of Argument-Coding Patterns, Potsdam,
    Germany, 2023LinkExternal link

Faculty of Social and Political Sciences

  • Associate Professor Ia Iashvili

    Dr. Ia Iashvili

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    • Contact: ia.iashvili@tsu.ge
    • Link to Website:
    • Faculty: Human Geography
    • Research focus: My teaching and research interests focus on migration and diaspora, population geography, the geography of tourism, family and gender studies.
    • Cooperation: 
    • Publications:

    1. Iashvili, I., Jinjikhadze, P. and Gvenetadze, T. (2025): Transformation of Social Spaces: International Labor Migration from Georgia. Georgian Geographical Journal. 5(1), 51-62.

    2. Iashvili, I., Gogsadze, G. and Gvenetadze, T. (2024): The Main Challenges of Gender Based International Labor Mobility: Transnational Migrant Families from Georgia. Journal of Eurasian Studies. Onlinefirst. pp.1-12. LinkExternal link

    3. Pavliashvili, N., Gogsadze, G. and Iashvili, I. (2024): Small Hotel Industry in Ajara: Main Aspects of the Post-Pandemic Recovery. Environment and Society. Vol. 14 No. 14. pp. 1-27.LinkExternal link

    4. Iashvili, I. (ed.). (2021): Textbook Human Geography of Georgia. 334 p. Tbilisi, Georgia (in
    Georgian).LinkExternal link

    5. Iashvili, I., Doghonadze, T. (2019): Sustainable Tourism for Contribution to Economic
    Growth and Social Inclusion of Rural Communities in Post-Soviet Georgia. Proceedings of the
    15 International Conference of ASECU “Sustainable Development Goals 2030: Challenges for
    South and East European Countries and the Black Sea Region”. University of National and
    World Economy. pp.271-281. Bulgaria, Sofia.LinkExternal link

  • Associate Professor David Matsaberidze

    David Matsaberidze

    Image: David Matsaberidze

    1. Quo vadis, Georgia? The Political Strategy of a Conservative Twist in the New Cycle of
    Populism under Georgian Dream Rule (2020–24) in Global Discourse, vol XX, no XX, Bristol
    University Press, 2025, pp. 1-24.LinkExternal link

    2. The Rotating Populist Discourses of the Post-Soviet Georgia: The Nation, State and People
    (1991-2018), in: Perspectives on Populism – Various Voices from the European ‘Periphery’
    (Ed). Reinhard Heinisch (with Aneta Cekikj and Klaudia Koxha). International Studies on
    Populism Series. Volume N9. Nomos Publishing. Baden-Baden, Germany, 2024, pp. 137-172
    (in English). Link 1External link OR Link 2External link

    3. The Confederation of the Mountain Peoples of the Caucasus: A Nonunitary, Nonstate Actor in Georgian-Abkhazian(-Russian) Relations, in: Marton, P., Thomasen, G., Békés, C., Rácz, A. (eds). The Palgrave Handbook of Non-State Actors in East-West Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. & Springer Nature, Springer International Publishing, 2023 (in English). LinkExternal link

    4.Conflict over Abkhazia: Mutually Exclusive National Projects and Fragmented Statehood, in
    The Post-Soviet Conflicts: The Thirty Years’ Crisis, (Eds). Ali Askerov, Stephan Brooks and
    Lasha Tchantouridze, New York: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2020, pp. 115-135
    (in English). LinkExternal link

    5. The Russian Revisionism and The Fate of the European Neighborhood Policy, in EURINT
    2016: The Eastern Partnership Under Strain – Time for a Rethink?, Vol. 3, edited by Gabriela
    Carmen Pascariu, Teodor Lucian Moga, Loredana Maria Simionov, Editura Universitatii
    „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi, 2016, pp. 45-53 (in English).LinkExternal link

Faculty of Law

  • Prof. Dr. Moris Shalikashvili

    Prof. Dr. Moris Shalikashvili

    Image: Prof. Dr. Moris Shalikashvili
    • Contact: moris.shalikashvili@tsu.ge
    • Link to Website:
    • Faculty: Law
    • Research focus: Criminology, Juvenile criminal law, penal law, organized crime, victimology
    • Cooperation: Prof. Dr. Edward Schramm Prof. Dr. Florian Knauer
    • Publications:

    1. Verweise auf- „Diebe im Gesetz“: Eine kriminelle Organisation im deutschen Jugendstrafvollzug? Die aus der ehemaligen UdSSR stammende kriminelle Organisation „Wor v Sakone“ – „Diebe im Gesetz“ und ihre subkulturelle Existenz unter russischsprachigen Gefangenen in einer deutschen Jugendstrafanstalt bei Hamburg. (Wissenschaftlicher Verlag) Berlin 2009. (auf Deutsch)

    2. Kriminologische Probleme der Geldwäsche. In: „Journal of Law“, Ivane Javakhishvili Staatliche Universität Tiflis, Fakultät der Rechtswissenschaft. 2009, Nr: 2. S.110-121. (auf Georgisch) Shalikashvili, M./ Tandilashvili, Kh./ Bakhtadze, U., Viktimologie. Wissenschaft vom Verbrechensopfer. 2. überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage. Tiflis, 2023. (auf Georgisch) 2024


    3. Shalikashvili, M./ Mikhanadze, G. / Khasia, M., Strafvollzugsrecht. Ein Lehrbuch. 2. überarbeitete und
    erweiterte Auflage. Tiflis, 2024. (auf Georgisch) LinkExternal link


    4. Sozialstaatsprinzip und Resozialisierung von Gefangenen. In: Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Giorgi Khubua. Tiflis, 2024. S. 184-204. (auf Georgisch)