Beka Kobakhidze is a historian whose 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 from fall 2022 through early spring 2023 and returned for the 2023-2024 academic year through the Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program. In 2018-2019, he was a visiting fellow of Russian and East European studies at the University of Oxford.
He received his Ph.D. from Ivane Javakhishvili State University in Tblisli, Georgia, in 2015 and is a professor at Ilia State University where he co-chairs the Master’s Program in Modern History of Georgia. He has also lectured at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, the University of Georgia, and the Caucasus University.
