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Emily Knowles

Emily Knowles is in the final stages of a master’s degree in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh (UK). She also holds a First Class bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from the University of Surrey (UK), for which she was awarded the French prize for academic excellence.

Emily is completing a combined research placement of six months at the Caucasus Research Resource Center and the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies in Tbilisi. Her interests include territorial disputes, land claims, identity narratives, securitization and methodologies for conflict analysis. Her fellowship will culminate in two papers; one on the securitization of disputed borders and one on methodologies for stress-testing territorial conflict, to be presented at the Association for Borderlands Studies world conference and the International Peace Research Association’s 25th General Conference respectively.

Prior to arriving in Georgia, Emily completed research posts at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (The Netherlands), the City of Edinburgh Council’s international relations team (UK), and Electricité de France’s international relations and foresight division (France). She has also worked for the international development team at the Peruvian NGO Nexos Voluntarios (Peru).

Emily is a native English speaker who is professionally fluent in French and Spanish, and competent in Dutch. She can speak basic Russian and will be taking both Russian and Georgian language courses as part of her placement in Georgia.

Emily Knowles is in the final stages of a master’s degree in International and European...

Joseph Larsen

Joseph holds an M.A. degree from Central European University where he focused on the economic transition from central planning to the market system in post-Communist states. Prior to joining CRRC he worked in the fields of education and marketing, in addition to dabbling in freelance writing and even doing some construction work along the way. His research interests include the relationship between political economy and geopolitics as well as the impact of globalization on the efficacy of public policy. After spending a few years in Hungary he is thrilled to experience living Georgia for the first time.
Joseph holds an M.A. degree from Central European University where he focused on the economic...

Maximilien Lambertson

Maximilien holds a Bachelor's degree in International Politics from Georgetown University. Prior to joining CRRC, he was a Fulbright fellow in Vratsa, Bulgaria and then worked at the National Democratic Institute on its programs in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. His research interests include the effects of economic crises and austerity policies on the rise of extremist parties as well as nationalist history making by political actors in Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He speaks French, English, and German.
Maximilien holds a Bachelor's degree in International Politics from Georgetown University. Prior to joining CRRC,...

Louis-Philippe Campeau

Louis-Philippe holds a BA in History from the University of Ottawa, where he focused on Russian history and the impact of ideologies. He also spent a year working for the Canadian military archives in Ottawa. Taking a career brake, he spent the next two years travelling through the ex-USSR by bicycle in order to better understand its people and cultures. This journey brought him to Tbilisi, where he is now doing independent research on the impact that alternative ideologies (neither Bolshevik nor Menshevik) had on the events leading to the 1918-1921 period of independence. He speaks French, English and Russian and is studying Georgian.
Louis-Philippe holds a BA in History from the University of Ottawa, where he focused on...

Inge Snip

Inge Snip has been living in and out of Georgia for the last 4,5 years, working for several NGO's and having founded Evolutsia.net - a news and analysis website covering the political landscape of Georgia. She is currently finishing a Master's degree in Politics and International Studies at Uppsala University in Sweden, for which she did individual research on elite configuration at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. Her Master's thesis will focus on Georgia’s current cultural elite. This research will include sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s idea’s of capital - arguing that social, cultural and symbolic capital creates power within society, not only economical capital.

Inge has a LLB degree in International and European Law from the University of Groningen, and a Russian language certificate from Kyiv National Economic Trade University where she studied for one year.

Inge Snip has been living in and out of Georgia for the last 4,5 years,...

Gavin Slade

Gavin is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, UK. He holds a first degree from the University of Wales, and Masters degrees from Central European University, Budapest and the University of Oxford. He lived and worked in Russia for almost five years and first came to Georgia as an English teacher in 2002. He has spent the last three years conducting his PhD research on Georgia. His interests are criminological in focus and include: organised crime and state responses to it, penal subcultures, and prison and police reform in the post-Soviet space.
Gavin is a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, UK. He holds a first...

Milena Oganesyan

Milena is a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the University of Montana-Missoula (UM), United States. She holds a Master’s degree in History from UM and a combined B.A. and M.A. in Near East History and International Relations, with minors in Turkish and Arabic from the Tbilisi Institute of Asia and Africa in the Republic of Georgia. Milena is fluent in Russian, Georgian, and Armenian. Her research interests include ethno-religious intermarriage, human rights, ethnic conflict, and international development in the South Caucasus region.
Milena is a doctoral student in cultural anthropology at the University of Montana-Missoula (UM), United...

Sonya Kleshik

Sonya holds a Master's degree in Political Science from Central European University, where she wrote her thesis on language attitudes in Georgia. Previously, she worked for Human Rights Watch in New York as well as Bank Information Center in Washington, DC, on the countries of the former Soviet Union with a focus on the Caucasus and Central Asia. Sonya holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Comparative Literature as well as Russian Culture and speaks Russian and Spanish.
Sonya holds a Master's degree in Political Science from Central European University, where she wrote...
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