Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne holds a PhD in social anthropology. She has obtained her PhD degree from the University of the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg and was simultaneously an associate Member at the Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. After working in the social and educational sector with refugees and migrant organizations and as a lecturer at the Ruhr University Bochum, she was a researcher at RECET (University of Vienna) from March 2021 to March 2024 as part of the research network “Ambivalences of the Soviet: Diaspora Nationalities between Collective Experiences of Discrimination and Individual Normalization, 1953-2023”.
Her main research interests are: Political anthropology, anthropology of borders, ethnicity, citizenship, migration research in Germany and migrants from the former USSR, post-socialist transformations and nationality politics in the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet space and the South Caucasus.
Aivazishvili-Gehnes first book, Staatsbürgerschaft an der Grenze. Die georgischsprachigen Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan [Citizenship at the border. The Georgian-speaking Ingiloy people in Azerbaijan] was published by Reichert Verlag in 2023 (in German).
Her second book, Auf der Suche nach dem guten Leben. Postsowjetische Gemeinschaften in Osnabrück [ In search of the good life. Post-Soviet communities in Osnabrück], was published by transcript in 2024 (in German).
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Auf der Suche nach dem guten Leben. Postsowjetische Gemeinschaften in Osnabrück. Bielefeld: transcript, 2024.
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Staatsbürgerschaft an der Grenze. Die georgischsprachigen Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2023.
Jašina-Schäfer, Alina/Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino (Hrsg.): Migration, Post-Socialism, and Diasporic Experiences. Fragmented Lives, Entangled Worlds [Migration, Postsozialismus und Diaspora-Erfahrungen. Fragmentierte Leben, verflochtene Welten]. Oldenburg: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024 (Special Issue/Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe). (Open Access)
DOI: 10.1515/9783111369204
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: The Pragmatics of Migration: Ethnicity as Agency and Reconfigurations of Georgian-Jewish Identity in Germany. In: Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 2025 (Special Issue Jews of the Caucasus: Migration Routes and Multiple Belongings). (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.1080/14725886.2025.2462316
Jašina-Schäfer, Alina/Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Introduction: Navigating Migration, Post-Socialism and Diasporic Experiences. Fragmented Lives, Entangled Worlds. In: JKGE Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe, 5, 2024, S. 1-16. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: ISBN: 9783111369204
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Hoping for Others: Entangled Emotional States of "Russian Germans" and the Multifaceted Aspects of "Successful" Migration. In: Zeitschrift für Migrationsforschung / Journal of Migration Studies (ZFM), 3, 2, 2023, S. 83-104. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.48439/zmf.186
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: "Multiple Vertrautheit" - Plädoyer für die Einführung eines neuen Begriffs: "Russlanddeutsche" in Deutschland. In: Paideuma. Zeitschrift für Kulturanthropologische Forschung, 68, 2022, S. 149–165. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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DOI: 10.21248/paideuma.111
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Der Staat ist der Präsident. In: Paideuma. Zeitschrift für Kulturanthropologische Forschung, 64, 2018, S. 8-27. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino/Grabmaier, Ilona: “New” East-West Migrations: Movements from and within the Global East. In: Johnston, Rosamund/Panagiotidis, Jannis/Baran-Szołtys, Magdalena et al. (Hrsg.): 1989 and the Great Transformation. New York: Routledge, 2025 (Peer-Reviewed Publication (accepted)). (Open Access)
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Tales of the “Good Neighborhood”: Post-Soviet Immigrants in a German City. In: Templin, David (Hrsg.): Arrival Neighborhoods in Europe since the mid-19th Century Migrations, Cities, Infrastructures. New York: Routledge, 2024 (s. 268-286.).
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Verschiedene Wissensarten über Flucht und Migration in Deutschland. Autoethnographische Beobachtungen. In: Delić, Aida/Kourtis, Ioannis/Kytidoy, Sabrina u.a. (Hrsg.): Globale Zusammenhänge, lokale Deutungen: Kritische Positionierungen zu wissenschaftlichen und medialen Diskursen im Kontext von Flucht und Asyl. Wiesbaden: Springer VS., 2022, S. 309-321.
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Experiencing the Border, Encountering the States: The Ingiloy at the Azerbaijani-Georgian Borderland. In: Von Löwes, Sabine/Eschment, Beate (Hrsg.): Post-Soviet Borders. A Caleidoscope of Shifting Lives and Lands. London and New York: Routledge, 2022, S. 119-135.
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Wie erforscht man die Zugehörigkeit? - Umgang mit der Vielfalt vorhandener Kategorien. Georgischsprachige Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan. In: Leonty, Haliyna/Schulz, Miklas (Hrsg.): Ethnographie und Diversität. Wissensproduktion an den Grenzen und die Grenzen der Wissensproduktion. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2020, S. 261-285.
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: The Power of the Shrine and Creative Performances in Ingiloy Sacred Rituals. In: Darieva, Tsypylma/Mühlfried, Florian/Tuite, Kevin (Hrsg.): Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces: Religious Pluralism in the post-Soviet Caucasus. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2018, S. 113-132.
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Ingiloy-Ingiloi: the Ethnicity and Identity of a Minority in Azerbaijan. In: Khutsishvili, Ketevan/Voell, Stéphane (Hrsg.): Caucasus Conflict Culture. Anthropological Perspectives on Times of Crisis. Marburg/Lahn: Curupira, 2013, S. S. 273-280.
Yalçın-Heckmann, Lale/Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Scales of Trade, Informal Economy and Citizenship at Georgian-Azerbaijani Borderlands. In: Bruns, Bettina/Miggelbrink, Judith (Hrsg.): Subverting Borders. Doing Research on Smuggling and Small-Scale Trade. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2012, S. 193-212.
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: The Schinkel Street Market as a multifunctional place in Osnabrück (Germany): nostalgia and political performance in the pandemic. In: Working Paper Series on Informal Markets and Trade, 13 2023. (Open Access)
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DOI: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-619270
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Seeing through mum’s eyes: The “Russian grocery shop” in Regensburg and memories of the late Soviet era in Georgia. 2025. (Open Access)
DOI: https://justimino.hypotheses.org/774
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: “Babushka’s” Get-Togethers – On Silence and Other Strategies for Being and Remaining a Community in Times of War. 2025. (Open Access)
DOI: https://ukraine2022.ios-regensburg.de/diaspora01/
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: “Ours” or One of “Theirs”: Contextualizing Belonging(s) among “Russian Germans” and Jews from the Former USSR in Bavaria. Redaktion ostBLOG, 2025. (Open Access)
DOI: 10.58079/13laz
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Wie der Krieg gegen die Ukraine die postsozialistische Produktpalette in Deutschland verändert. Blog-Beitrag, 2024. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Postsowjetische orthodoxe Konflikte. Kriege und Heilige. Blog-Beitrag, 2024. (Open Access)
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Aivzishvili-Gehne, Nino: Drei Leben des Denkmals für "Gefallene Helden der Freiheit": Gedanken bei einem Besuch in Tbilissi. Blog-Beitrag, 2022. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Die Geschichte darüber, wie der Antrag für mein aktuelles Projekt seinen Weg fand. Blog-Beitrag, 2022. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: The Unseen Suffering Beyond Europe: The "Other Victims" of Russia’s Power Games. Blog-Beitrag, 2022. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino/Jašina-Schäfer, Alina/Panagiotidis, Jannis: Conflict, commitment and fear. Post-Soviet migrants in Germany and war in Ukraine. Blog-Beitrag, 2022. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: My déjà-vu of the war and my fieldwork in Germany. Blog-Beitrag, 2022. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Was bedeutet, "teilnehmend zu beobachten"? Gedankenflug über den Wert der Geschichten, die wir im Feld erfahren. Blog-Beitrag, 2022. (Open Access)
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Tamta, Khalvashi/Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: The Pandemic (Day)dreams. In: Entanglements, 4(1) 2021, S. 207-213. 2021. (Open Access)
Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Post-socialist Life of Things: Ein Bär namens "Kukuri". Blog-Beitrag, 2021. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Sensing the Field during the Pandemic. Blog-Beitrag, 2021. (Open Access)
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Aivazishvili-Gehne, Nino: Mein (Post-) Sovietisches Gepäck. Eine Ethnographische Beobachtung. Blog-Beitrag, 2021. (Open Access)
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Researcher at the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET), at the University of Vienna, 03/2021–03/2024
Invited researcher at the Institute for Social and Cultural Research at Ilia State University, since 2021
Member of the International Advisory Board for the PhD and MA programs in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Ilia State University, since 2020
Lecturer, Ruhr University Bochum, 2018–2020
Research Fellow, University of Applied Sciences Bochum, Department of Community Health, 2019–2020
AIM [Akademie Integration Migration] Bildung e.V., German Language Instructor, 02/2016–05/2016
Social Worker, Integration Agency AWO Wuppertal e.V., 08/2015–02/2016
Ethnographic Fieldwork in Azerbaijan and Georgia, 2009–2010
Research Fellow, Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2006–2007
Research Assistant, Max-Planck-Institute of Social Anthropology, project “Citizenship in Motion: The Politics of Belonging in Post-Soviet Georgia”, 2006–2007
History Teacher, General Public School No.196, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2004–2006
History Teacher, Private “Authors School Tbilisi”, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2003–2004
Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg, Associated Member, Max-Planck-Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), 2008 – 2015
Master’s Degree in History, Ivane Javakhishvili State University Tbilisi, Faculty of History, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2003 – 2005
Bachelor’s degree in History, Teacher of History, Ivane Javakhishvili State University Tbilisi, Faculty of History, Tbilisi, Georgia, 1999 – 2003
University Teaching Award “5x 5000” in eLearning (with Seda Sönmetztürk), project title: “Campus in Focus, Fieldwork after the Lockdown”, 2020
Publication Grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation, 2017
Research Assistantship (RA) for International PhD Students, International Graduate Academy (InGrA), Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg, 04/2012 – 05/2012
PhD Grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation: “Staatsbürgerschaft an der Grenze. Das Beispiel der georgischsprachigen Ingiloer in Aserbaidschan” [Citizenship at the Border: The Case of Georgian speaking Ingiloy in Azerbaijan], 10/2008 – 09/2011
Max Planck Research Scholarship, 10/2010 – 12/2010
DAAD Research Scholarship, Guest at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), 10/2007 – 01/2008
Summer School in Saint Petersburg for Young Historians, 08/2007
DAAD Scholarship, Intensive Language Course, 08/2002 – 09/2002
Student Conference Organization Grant, Tbilisi State University, “Social Anthropology, Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. An Overlap of Interests and Perspective of Integration”, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2002
Cultural Exchange Program. Biberach an der Riss, Germany, 2002