- Key Personnel for the project: "Institutionalizing Modernity in Georgia: At the Juncture of Empire and Periphery." Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation’s Fundamental Research Grant, 03/2025–03/2028
- Project Convener and Key Personnel for the project "The Second World War and Everyday Life in Soviet Georgia." Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation’s Fundamental Research Grant, 03/2025–03/2028
Tamar Qeburia, Ph.D.
History Department
Research Associate
Research Associate
- Description
- Curriculum vitae
- Projects
Description
Tamar Qeburia is a research associate at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany. She is part of the project "Commodity Frontiers in Eastern Europe: Environment and Societies at Global Risk, 16th–21st Centuries" (2025–28), funded by Leibniz-Kooperative Exzellenz.
She earned her PhD in Eastern European History (summa cum laude) through a cotutelle program jointly run by Ilia State University (Georgia) and the University of Göttingen (Germany). She continues to collaborate with Ilia State University’s Institute for Social and Cultural Research as a research affiliate, where she contributes as key personnel to the fundamental research grant project "Institutionalizing Modernity in Georgia: At the Juncture of Empire and Periphery".
Qeburia’s research examines the entanglements of industrial infrastructure, environmental change, resource extraction, labor, and technology, with a regional focus on the South Caucasus and Eastern Europe from the late 19th to the 20th century.
Curriculum vitae
Professional Career
- Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, Germany, since 05/2025
- The Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Ilia State University, since 01/2023
- Spring and Winter semester teaching assistant at the Ilia State University, Eastern European & Global history module, 03/2018–02/2019
- Project coordinator and researcher at the Social Justice Centre (former EMC), Tbilisi, Georgia, 05/2015–12/2020
- Research assistant for the Project “Lab-in-the-field experiments on Inter-ethnic relations and intra-group cooperation”, European University Institute, 05–11/2015
Education
- PhD in Eastern European History, Summa Cum Laude, Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt Double-Degree Doctorate Program, Ilia State University (Georgia) / University of Göttingen (Germany), 11/2018–06/2025
- Master degree (with Distinction) in Sociology, Ilia State University, 2014–2016
Fellowships and Awards
- Max Weber Foundation two-month research fellowship, Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg, 10–12/2024
- Award for the best doctoral paper at the 27th ASN International Convention (Columbia University) in Caucasus/Russia/Belarus section, 05/2023
- DAAD-Rustaveli” Scholarship Award for a double-degree PhD, 06–10/2024
- DAAD-Rustaveli” Scholarship Award for a double-degree PhD, 06–11/2023
- DAAD-Rustaveli” Scholarship Award for a double-degree PhD, 06–11/2022
- DAAD-Rustaveli” Scholarship Award for a double-degree PhD, 06–11/2019
- DAAD Conference Grant for participation in the ASEEES 2024, 11/2024
- Dissertation Completion Grant, Graduate School, University of Göttingen, 05–06/2024
- DAAD Ostpartnerschaften Fellowship, University of Göttingen, 12/2023–04/2024
- Short Term Scientific Mission Grant, COST Action, 07–09/2023
- ARISC Conference Travel Grants 2022-23 for participation in the ASN World Convention 2023 at Columbia University, USA, 05/2023
- Erasmus+ Fellowship at the Free University of Berlin, 06–09/2023
- CEES fellowship for visiting researchers, University of Zurich, 03/2023–06/2023
- Erasmus+ Fellowship at the UCLouven, Belgium, 03/2019–05/2019
- MA Research Award by the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, 12/2015–08/2016