Research

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

• LexCauc – A lexical database for the languages of the Caucasus
• Language contact in the Caucasus
• JENA-CAUC - Resilience in the South Caucasus: prospects and challenges of a new EU foreign policy concept
• Kaukasisches Erzählgut im Diskurs der vergleichenden Märchenforschung (Caucasian narratives in the discourse of comparative fairy tale research)

• Felix Anker: Topics in the morphosyntax of Caucasian languages
• Veronika Pfeilschifter: Ideology, utopia and decolonial resilience: The ‘new’ post-Soviet left in the South Caucasus
• Irena Gonashvili: Europeanization of Environmental and Climate Change Policies in Georgia and Armenia: Comparative Study
• Natia Botkoveli

Detailed information about the dissertations

• 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

• 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]

Detailed information about the dissertation

• 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

Articles, conference papers and other publications can be found on the individual pages of the team members.

Overview of books and edited volumes of recent years

2021

• Forker, Diana & Lenore Grenoble (eds.) 2021. Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

2019

• Diana Forker. 2019. A grammar of Sanzhi Dargwa. Berlin: Language Science Press.

2018

• Hannah Sarvasy & Diana Forker (eds.) 2018. Word Hunters. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
• Diana Forker & Timur Maisak (eds.) 2018. The semantics of verbal categories in Nakh-Daghestanian languages: Tense, aspect, evidentiality, mood/modality. Leiden: Brill.
• Forker, Diana & Geoffrey Haig (eds.) 2018. Person and gender in discourse: An empirical cross-linguistic perspective. Linguistics 56(4).
• Tsypylma Darieva & Florian Mühlfried & Kevin Tuite (eds.) 2018. Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces - Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucasus. Oxford, New York: Berghahn.

2017

• Diana Forker & Gadzhimuard Gadzhimuradov. 2017. Sanzhi tales and legends. With a Sanzhi-Russian and a Russian-Sanzhi dictionary. Makhachkala. [In Russian]
• Mehmet Bardakçı, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Christoph Giesel & Olaf Leiße. 2017. Religious Minorities in Turkey. Alevi, Armenians, Syriacs and the Struggle to Desecuritize Religious Freedom. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Typylma Darieva & Thede Kahl & Svetlana Toncheva (eds.) 2017. Sakralität und Mobilität im Kaukasus und in Südosteuropa. Wien: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

2016

• Natia Reineck. 2016. Einfach - Sprachen - lernen: Universalkonzepte für den optimalen Fremdsprachenunterricht. Marburg: Tectum Verlag.
• Natia Reineck & Ute Rieger. 2016. Kaukasiologie heute: Eine Festschrift zum 70. Geburtstag von Heinz Fähnrich. Greiz: König.

Detailed information about the books and edited volumes

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

• Chair of International RelationsExternal link 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)
• Linguistic Convergence Laboratory,External link National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow
• Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWPExternal link), Berlin

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