Curriculum Vitae
Personal data:
Family Name (surname): TCHKOIDZE
First Name: EKA
Current Academic Status: Ph. Doctor
University-Faculty-Department: University of Ioannina, School of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Mediaeval Studies (Greece)
Affiliation: Associate Professor of History, School of Arts and Sciences,
Ilia State University ( Tbilisi
Country and place of birth: Tbilisi, Georgia
Nationality: Georgian
Date of birth: 21/08/1976 Sex: Female
Citizenship: Georgian Marital status: Single
Home address: B. Khmelnitsky Street, Korpus 4A, Flat 3, Tbilisi 0136, GEORGIA
Mobile (+9955) 93678718
e-mail:
Education:
Ph.D.: School of Philosophy, Program in Medieval Studies, University of Ioannina(Ioannina, Greece) 2001-2006. Dissertation topic: “Byzantium through Georgian sources (chronicles and hagiographic texts 9th-11th centuries)”
M.A.:School of Philosophy, Program in Medieval Studies, University of Ioannina 1999-2001.
B.A.: School of Philology (Georgian Language & Literature/Modern Greek Language& Literature), Tbilisi State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) 1993-1998.
Professional Experience:
Oct 1998-Oct 1999 Teacher of Modern Greek Language. Gori (Georgia);
2007-2008 Post Doctoral Researcher, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton
University (USA). Post Doctoral Research Project: “The Georgian
Life of George the Athonite (11th century) as a source for
Byzantine History”;
March- July, 2011 Visiting Researcher, University of Granada (Spain), Center of
Byzantine, Modern Greek and Cypriot Studies (within the Project
“Coimbra Group-Eastern Neiboring Countries”)
2008- 2013 Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Sciences
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia;
2013- Associate Professor School of Arts and Sciences
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia;
2012-2013National and Kapodistrian Unversity of Athens,
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, „Academy of Plato, Paths and Knowledge“ – Post Doctoral Researcher
Oct. 2014-Jan. 2015 Visiting Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany)
(within the framework co-operation and mobility programme
Erasmus Mundus)
Jan-Feb 2016 University of Southern Denmark, Odense; Collaboration with the
Center for Medieval Literature
Feb 28-March 5 2016 “Erasmus+” Exchange Mobility Program for Teaching, UCC
(Copenhagen, Denmark)
Main areas of interest:Georgian hagiography as a source for Byzantine political and cultural history; Byzantine and Georgian Hagiography (comparative Study);Monasticism (emergence, development, today’s tendencies); Political, social, economic history of the 19th century
Selected Conference Presentations:
International Symposium “Rewriting Hagiographical Legends and Texts in Byzantium”,
University of Southern Denmark, Odense 8-10 October 2015: paper entitled “Saint Hilarion the Georgian: Two Versions of His Life and One Ideological Line”
International Medieval Conference “Town and Country in the Byzantine world: Social and Economic Perspectives, American Research Center in Sofia, Sofia 7-8 May, 20015; paper entitled“Thessaloniki of the 9th century through the Life of Hilarion the Georgian”;
“Space, Nation, Empire (Cultural semantics of political spaces)” – International conference on the project Cultural Semantics of Georgia between the Caucasus and the Black Sea (sponsored by the Volkswagen Foundation), in the framework of cooperation between ZfL Berlin and Ilia State University Tbilisi, Tbilisi (Georgia), May 22 – 23, 2014, paper entitled “From imperial to sacral space (some aspects of pilgrimage from Russia to Sinai in the 19th century)”;
Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (UK), 7-10 July 2014 ( Literary Languages in Byzantine Empire [Session No: 1620], paper entitled “Ephrem the Mtsire on Byzantine Greek and Georgian Metaphrastic Hagiography” (Paper 1620-c), funded by Shota Rustavely National Science Foundation of Georgia (
“The first (1845) and the second (1850) travels of Porfiry Uspensky to the Sinai Monastery” (in Russian “Первое (1845) ивторое (1850) ПутешествиеПорфирияУспенскоговСинайскийМонастырь”), International Conference “Travel Literature in Medieval Russia” (“La Literatura de Viajes en la Rusia Medieval”), University of Granada (Spain), March 17-18 2011
“Royal Female Donors to Iveron Monastery (Mount Athos) in the 11th-13th centuries”,
Female Founders in Byzantium and Beyond, University of Vienna, September 23-25, 2008
Participation in research projects:
Ministry of Education of Georgia, field of the Development of Humanities, Rustaveli Foundation (see their web-site Project is entitled as Byzantium in Georgian Sources(Department of Byzantine Studies of Acad. Giorgi Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Tbilisi, Rep. of Georgia (June 2008- June 1010)
Hellenic Ministry of Education,Lifelong Learning andReligiousAffairs-European Union (European Social Fund), “Black Sea and its city ports from 18th to 20th centuries. Development, convergence and connection with global economy”. Within the framework of the program “Thales” (September 2012-December 2015), member of research team, external collaborator, responsible for Batumi (website
Germany, Berlin, Center for Literary and Cultural research, “Cultural semantics of Georgia”, external collaborator, 2013-2014
“Batumi, Odessa, Trabzon. The Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea from the Perspective of Eastern Port Cities” Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation 2016–2018,
Fellowships/ Research Grants:
Sep 2016-Dec 2017 – Uranis Foundation, Greece (with M. Abulashvili, TSU), “Greek idions in Georgian”
July 2016, Short-term Research Grant from Academic Swiss Caucasus Net, University
of Fribourg, Switzerland
2016 , Feb “Erasmus+” Exchange Teaching Grant for UCC (Copenhagen, Denmark)
June-August 2015 – Princeton University (USA), Program in Hellenic Studies (visiting fellow)
Oct 2014-Jan 2015 - Visiting Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) (within the framework cooperation and mobility programme Erasmus Mundus)
2012-2013Grant for Post Doctoral Research, National and Kapodistrian Unversity of
Athens, Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, „Academy of Plato, Paths and
Knowledge“, 2012-1013
July 2010, Research Grant for Former Scholars for Publishing PhD Thesis, Onassis
Public Benefit Foundation
May 2010, Short-term Research Grant from Academic Swiss Caucasus Net, University
of Fribourg, Switzerland
2007-2008, Princeton University - Hannah Seeger Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship,
Program in Hellenic Studies
March 2006-January 2007, Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Scholarship for PhD
Thesis
2001-2005, GreekState Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.)
LANGUAGES: Georgian (native); Modern Greek (fluent); classical Greek (advanced); Russian (fluent); English (fluent);
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