Malkhaz Toria (Ph.D. 2009) is an associate professor of history and the director of the Memory Studies Center in the Caucasus at Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia). He is also a doctoral candidate in sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York. He has held fellowships (Fulbright, DAAD, OSF, and others) at the New School, Central European University (CEU), Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), Humboldt University of Berlin, University of California, Berkeley, and the Harriman Institute of Columbia University.
Dr. Toria was a visiting scholar with the Davis Center’s Program on Georgian Studies in spring 2024 and returned as a visiting scholar for the 2024-2025 academic year through the Fulbright Visiting Scholars Program.
