People

Katie Sartania

Research Fellow

Research project: In Pursuit of Legality and Justice: Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union (JUSTIMINO)
 Katie Sartania
Katie Sartania

Positions

Since 02/2024
Researcher “In Pursuit of Legality and Justice: Minority Struggles in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union”, ZMO Berlin
Since 03/2023
Elected advisor of the Georgian Association of The Public Opinion Research (GAPOR)

Education

2021 - 2023
Master’s degree in Modern History of Georgia, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
2010 - 2015
BA in Sociology, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia

Publications

Sartania, K. (2021, April 27). Struggle and sacrifice: Narratives of Georgia’s modern history Carnegie Europe. carnegieeurope.eu/2021/04/27/struggle-and-sacrifice-narratives-of-georgia-s-modern-history-pub-84391 

Sartania, K. (2019). 1989: Protest rallies and their influence on Georgian history. Heinrich Böll Stiftung | Tbilisi - South Caucasus Region. https://ge.boell.org/sites/default/files/kate_sartania_revisions_1.pdf

Sartania, K., & Chitanava, E. (2019, June 13). Public space: The battleground in the revanchist city. The Foreign Policy Centre (FPC). https://fpc.org.uk/public-space-the-battleground-in-the-revanchist-city/

Sartania, K., & Bidzhoyan, T. (2018, August 22). Memory politics: The post-soviet memory landscape in Tbilisi. Caucasus Edition. https://caucasusedition.net/memory-politics-the-post-soviet-memory-landscape-in-tbilisi/

Melikyan, A., Veliyev, J., Sartania, K., & Abdullazade, S. (2018, September 30). The rise of New Nationalism in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Caucasus Edition. https://caucasusedition.net/the-rise-of-new-nationalism-in-armenia-azerbaijan-and-georgia-in-the-late-1980s-and-early-1990s/

Conferences

Black Sea Studies: The Past, Present, and Future of a Region - The Silk Road and Georgia’s Black Sea; The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and Ilia State University; Batumi, Georgia, 2023.

Academic Conference: European History Forum – 30 years after 1989: Freedom from What? Freedom to do What;’ Heinrich Böll Stiftung; Berlin, Germany, 2019.

Challenges of Transition: The Post-Communist Experience(s) – Case of Georgia; University of Bucharest; Bucharest, Romania, 2014.

Awards & Scholarships

Recipient of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung South Caucasus Competitive Study Scholarship for Master's level studies (2021-2023).