Tamar Qeburia, Ph.D.

History Department
Research Associate

Tel.: +49 941 94354-78 qeburia@ios-regensburg.de

ORCID-iD: 0000-0002-3720-7713

Description
Publications
Curriculum vitae
Projects
Presentations

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.

Publications

Publikationen

Journal Articles

Qeburia, Tamar: Melting Points: Furnace Technology at the Crossroads of Socialist and Georgian Imaginaries. In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, University of California Press, 2025, S. https://online.ucpress.edu/cpcs (Research Article). (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal)
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DOI: 10.1525/cpcs.2025.2685428

Qeburia, Tamar: "We Have Been Hacked" - on the Use and Abuse of Anti-colonial Rhetoric in Georgia and Elsewhere. In: Caucasus Analytical Digest, EHT Zurich, 2024. (Journal with Impact Factor, Refereed Journal, Open Access)
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000683975

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Qeburia, Tamar: White Overalls and a Fur Long Coat, Women Metallurgists of Late Socialism.. In: Kis, Oksana/Melashvili, Tamta/Chikhladze, Lilia (Hrsg.): Women and History: Gender perspectives of everyday life (1970s-1980s). Kyiv & Tbilisi: Heinrich Boell Foundation: Kyiv & Tbilisi offices, 2021 (pp: 19-36). (Open Access)
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Online Publication/Blog posts

Qeburia, Tamar: Book review on Alissa Klots, Domestic Service in the Soviet Union: Women’s Emancipation and the Gendered Hierarchy of Labor, Cambridge University Press, 2024. In: H-Soz-Kult, 2025. (Open Access)
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Qeburia, Tamar: Book review on Kaiser, Claire P.: Georgian and Soviet. Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus. Ithaca, 2023: Cornell University Press. In: H-Soz-Kult, 2024. (Open Access)
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Qeburia, Tamar/Lolua, Ana/Frank, Jennifer: Unravelling the Ambivalences of the Soviet: Debates, Reflections, and Future Explorations. In: Hypotheses, 2023. (Open Access)
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Qeburia, Tamar: Book Review on Thomas Kruessmann and Andrey Makarychev (eds.), Europe in the Caucasus, Caucasus in Europe: Perspectives on the Construction of a Region, ibidem Press, 2019. In: Caucasus Survey, 2022.
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DOI: 10.30965/23761202-20220007

Qeburia, Tamar: Book review on Planning Labour: Time and the Foundations of Industrial Socialism in Romania. By Alina-Sandra Cucu. International Studies in Social History 32. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2019.. In: Hungarian Historical Review 10, no. 2, 2021. (Open Access)
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DOI: 10,38145/2021.2.417

Qeburia, Tamar: Book review on Erik R. Scott, Familiar Strangers: The Georgian Diaspora and the Evolution of Soviet Empire, Oxford University Press, 2016. In: Hypothesis, 2021. (Open Access)
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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

Projects

Projekte

Current Projects

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

Presentations

2025

Between Empire and Nature: Land Ownership and Territorial Transformation of Georgia's Black Sea Coast. Contribution to the panel "Echoes of Empire: Taming the Nature, Bodies, and Knowledge of Georgia's Black Sea Coast" 2025 ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington DC, US, 20.11.2025.
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Property as Key Questions for Societal Transitions in the 19th and 20th Century. Annual Conference of the German Association for Eastern European Studies (DGO) "Dynamics of Property Change in Eastern Europe: Land Reforms, Expropriations and Restitutions in Transformation Processes" Martin-Opitz-Library Herne and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) Regensburg, Martin-Opitz-Library Herne, 16.10.2025.
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Imperial Minds, Soviet Hands: Land Improvement Politics in Early Soviet Western Georgia. Zweiter NRW-Studientag der Osteuropäischen Geschichte Ruhr-Universität Bochum und der Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek Herne, Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek, Herne, 26.09.2025.

2024

From Industrial Downturn to New Regimes of Accumulation: Exploring the Vocabulary of Change in an Industry-bound Town of Soviet Georgia. Contribution to the panel “Time Warp: The Metamorphosis of Modernity Projects in the (Post-)Soviet Space.” 2024 ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston, US, 21.11.2024.
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Pre-Perestroika Dynamics in a Georgian Factory. Contribution to the conference "Re-Constructing Perestroika(s): In Search of a New Vocabulary for the Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia" Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague; Georgetown University, Washington DC; Leibniz Center for Contemporary History, Potsdam, Prague, Czech Republic, 15.03.2024.
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2023

Infrastructure in the Caucasus from the Early 19th Century to the Late Soviet Period. Contribution to the workshop "Shaping the Periphery, Enabling Movement" Yerevan State University and Max Weber Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia, 04.10.2023.
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Labor Recruitment, Apprenticeship Campaigns and the Formation of the Industrial Working Class in the Soviet Republic of Georgia. Contribution to the panel "The Soviet Experience, Labor, Economics, and Politics" (Presented paper was nominated as the best doctoral paper in the category: Belarus/Caucasus/Russia). 27th Annual World Convention of Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York, US, 21.05.2023.
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2022

The Social Fabric of Industrial Technology. Contribution to the international workshop "Industrious Nations: Reconsidering Nationality and Economy in the Soviet Union" Princeton University, Princeton, US, 29.10.2022.
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