The Master of Arts in Regional Studies—Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia (REECA) is a two-year program that offers advanced training in the history, politics, culture, society, and languages of this region.
Beka Kobakhidze received his Ph.D. from Ivane Javakhishvili State University in Tblisli, Georgia, in 2015. He is a co-chair of the Master’s Program in Modern History of Georgia and associate professor at Ilia State University. Kobakhidze has also lectured at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, the University of Georgia, and the Caucasus University. In 2018-2019, he was a visiting fellow of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in the foreign policy of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918-1921) and the historical intersection between Russia and the Western "great powers" in the Caucasus.
Kobakhidze was a Visiting Scholar with the Davis Center’s Program on Georgian Studies in fall 2022 through early spring 2023, and returned as a Visiting Scholar for AY 2023-2024 through the Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program.
The legislation making its way through Georgia's parliament is widely seen as a challenge to democracy in the country. What does the so-called foreign agents bill say? What are its implications? Is it a danger to Georgia’s EU candidacy?
Join the Program on Georgian Studies for a screening of "Will There Be a Theatre Up There?!" — a film about the impact of Stalinism on the people of Georgia — followed by a discussion with the director Nana Janelidze.
Six scholars currently based at the Davis Center will present a broad range of research, from Georgian history, European migration, and Kazakh elites to feminism and informal governance in Russia.