Fellowships Archive - Page 9 of 89

Tsisana Khundadze

Tsisana Khundadze holds a B.A. in Social Sciences and a M.A. in Psychology from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Currently, she is a PHD student at TSU and her specialization is social, political and cultural psychology. Before becoming a Junior Fellow at CRRC in 2011 she worked on different projects as an assistant at ISR and Ars Magna. She mainly participated in social and organizational studies. Her research interests are related to the means of mass communication and political culture.

Vazha Burduli

Vazha Burduli earned a diploma in Law from the Georgian Humanitarian-Economic University in 2001, and a B.A. in the Humanities (majoring in American Studies) from the International Black Sea University in 2008. Prior to joining CRRC he worked as a translator/English version copy editor for Business News magazine, and also as a translator for the Public Defender’s Office, with which he continues to cooperate. His research interests include the Georgian national liberation movement during the Soviet period and recent Georgian history.

Thea Goginashvili

Thea Goginashvili earned a B.A. in Mathematics from Tbilisi State University, and holds a M.A. in Economics from the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University. Before joining CRRC’s Junior Research Fellow program, she worked as a Research Assistant for Prof. Frédéric Laurin, a research fellow at ISET. Her research interests include real estate economics and macroeconomics.

Elene Japaridze

Elene Japaridze holds a B.A. in Social Psychology at Iv. Javakhishvili State University, and an M.A. in Social and Political Science at the Ilia Chavchavadze State University. While attaining her B.A., Elene participated in a student exchange program at the University of Saarbrucken, where she had training courses in small-groups psychology. After returning to Tbilisi, Elene worked as an interviewer at ACT. During her M.A. programme, she planned and conducted different social research projects under the supervision of the Ilia Chavchavadze University research team.

Keti Chubinishvili

Keti Chubinishvili holds a B.A. in Sociology from Tbilisi State University, and studied for her M.A. in Social Science at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Since February 2010 she has been a Junior Fellow at CRRC. Before becoming a Junior Fellow, she worked on a variety of research projects for different organizations. Her research interests are mainly related to social and cultural issues.

Brian O’Connor

Brian is enrolled at School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, part of University College London. Prior to this, he attained a B.A in History from Royal Holloway, University of London. He then spent the intervening years teaching English as a foreign language in Ukraine, Moldova and Kazakhstan. Currently, he studies the Politics and Security issues of Eastern Europe/the former USSR, and I will be starting my second year in Moscow in September 2017. His research focuses on the informal interaction between the Kremlin and leading Russian oligarchs, with the aim of determining the extent to which the latter act as agents of the former: specifically concerning philanthropy, political participation, and corporate takeovers.

Dinara Urazova

Dinara is from a city in Western Kazakhstan located at the crossroads between Europe and Asia. A social science enthusiast, she obtained her bachelor’s degree in Political Science and International Relations from American University in Bulgaria. After that she worked as a staff writer for Tengrinews – one of the biggest English-language news sources in Kazakhstan. She obtained her MA degree in Political Science from Central European University and undertook an internship at Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies. Among her broader interests are social science methodology, regime transformation, contentious politics, inequalities, including those predicated upon gender and socio-economic standing, and political sociology.

Rayya El Zein

Rayya El Zein is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Tsereteli Oriental Institute at Ilia University. She earned her PhD from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research concerns urban youth cultures, subcultures, and performance in the Arab world and its diasporas.

Junior Fellowship