Research Projects:
-Territorial Phantom Pain: Exploring the Post-Conflict Environment of Territorial Loss, Crisis and Non-Return in the Republic of Georgia. – Independent Research Fund Denmark (2022-2024)
University of Amsterdam – Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences – Programme Group: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power & Ideas
Aarhus University – Department of Anthropology – Human Security Programme
-Borderization of the Unrecognized Nation State: Governmentality & Spatiality in the Contemporary Republic of Abkhazia (2016 – 2020)
PhD Project
Aarhus University – Department of Anthropology – Human Security Programme
-RISEZAsia – The Rise of Special Economic Zones in Asian Borderlands (2016 – 2018
Aarhus University – Department of Anthropology
Field Research
2018 | Field Research – Georgia & Abkhazia. Academically sponsored by the School for Culture & Society at Aarhus University (November 2018)
2017 | Field Research – Georgia & Abkhazia. Academically sponsored by the School for Culture & Society at Aarhus University & the Oticon Foundation (September – October 2017)
2016 | Field Research – Georgia & Abkhazia. Academically sponsored by the School for Culture & Society at Aarhus University & the Oticon Foundation (August – November 2016)
2016 | Preliminary Field Research – Georgia. Academically sponsored by the School for Culture & Society at Aarhus University. (May-June 2016)
2013 | Field Research – Georgia & Abkhazia. Academically sponsored by the Centre for Conflict Studies at Utrecht University. Culminated in MA. Thesis. (February – June 2013)
Awards & Grants
2022 | Independent Research Fund Denmark: International Postdoctoral Grant
Grant awarded for the two-year Post Doctoral project: Territorial Phantom Pain: Exploring the Post-Conflict Environment of Territorial Loss, crisis and Non-Return in the Republic of Georgia.
2018 | The Netherlands-America Foundation (NAF) – Fulbright Scholarship 2018-2019. For research stay at University of Colorado at Boulder (March-June 2019)
2016 | Oticon Fonden Fieldwork Research Grant. Fieldwork 2016-2018 Georgia-Abkhazia
2015 | ESRC Studentship Award from the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences for PhD proposal: ‘Borderization of the Unrecognized Nation State: Governmentality & Spatiality in the contemporary Republic of Abkhazia’ at the University of St.Andrews, Human Geography Department.
Member of Academic Networks:
Nordic-Baltic Network of Caucasus Studies
Conferences:
2018 |
Violence, Space and the Political
2018 | Borderland Spaces Ruins, Revival(s) and Resources. 6th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network
13-15 August 2018
American University of Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Paper presented: An anxious Border: Material Embodiment, Diffusion and Social Abandonment in the Abkhazian Borderlands
2018 | Concrete Anthropology
18-20 June 2018
Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Paper presented: A ‘Concrete’ Border: Materializing Contested Statehood
2018 | Violence, Space and the Political
7-6 June 2018
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Paper presented: An Anxious Border: Material Embodiment, Anxiety and Diffusion in the De-Facto Abkhazian Borderlands.
2017 | PACSA 2017: The Making of Peace, Conflict & Security:
The Dynamics of Inclusion & Exclusion
28-30 August 2017
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paper presented: Contested Statehood in the Borderlands of the Contemporary Republic of Abkhazia: Spatiality, Conflict and Abandonment
2017 | Mega Seminar: The End
16-18 August 2017
Sandbjerg, Denmark
Paper presented: “Where one begins, the other must end” : The Material Embodiment of the Contested De-Facto Nation State.
Workshops / Courses:
2018 | The Temporalities of Materials in Everyday Life
PhD Course
Oslo University
30 May-1 June 2018
2017 | Landscapes of Sovereignty: Everyday Life at the Margins of the State
PhD Course
Aarhus University
30-31 May 2017
2017 | Body Economies: Authority, Agency and Shifting Value in the Global South.
PhD Course
University of Copenhagen
5-7 April 2017
2016 | Governance at the End of the State: Spaces of Violent Rule
Summer School
University of Zürich
12 – 14 September 2016