Ph.D. and Lecturer in Political Science. Outside of academia, I was an executive director of monthly bilingual Diplomat and quarterly Parliament magazines. I also have previous working experience in governmental and non-governmental organizations.
Undervisning
At the graduate and undergraduate levels, I have taught the following courses:
- Foreign Policy Analysis
- International Security
- European Union Politics
- Global Politics
- European Integration
- Democratization in the World
- The Law of Sustainable Development
- European Political Entrepreneurship
- International Power, Security, and Democracy
Forskning
My research focuses on the perceptions of political elites, foreign policy, and decision-making. in February 2023, I defended my Ph.D. thesis entitled "Reimagining Georgia: Images of Georgia Held by Political Elites in the West, Russia, and Georgia from 1991 to 2020." During this project, I conducted 102 interviews with political elites from the U.S., NATO, EU, Russia, and Georgia.
As a Ph.D. candidate, I was a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Columbia University in the City of New York, and a visiting Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Currently, I am also a guest researcher at the Russia and the Caucasus Regional Research (RUCCAR) at Malmo University.
