User:Tamtakhalvashi

Tamta Khalvashi is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology at The University of Georgia. She was born on in 12.05.1983 in the republic of Georgia, Tbilisi. In 2002 and 2006 she graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, faculty of Social Psychology (BA)and Conflict Management (MA). Currently, she is working on her doctoral thesis on cultural transmission within Georgians in Turkey. In 2008, she was selected as a Visiting Study Fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre, Queen Elizabeth House in the University of Oxford. At the end of the semester in Oxford she had a public presentation of her research paper on the transmission of identity among Georgians in Fereydan (Iran). She was the participant of Warsaw East European Conference (Forth Annual Session) - “Authoritarianism vs. Democracy” where she presented her research paper called “Socialist and Vernacular Architecture of Georgia”. In summer 2007, the group of professors and doctorates under the leadership of the director of Batumi University research centre of south-western Georgia, Prof. Mamia Paghava and Tamta Khalvashi (from the University of Georgia) conducted a three week expedition in Tao-Klarjeti region (Former Georgian territory now located in eastern Turkey), mainly within the Murghuli and Chorokhi Valleys.

Links: [www.ug.edu.ge]