Nini Sikharulidze, a native of Tbilisi, Georgia, is a member of the Harvard College Class of 2025 with a bachelor of arts in human developmental and regenerative biology, a secondary concentration in government, and a language citation in French.
At Harvard, Nini co-founded the Harvard College Georgian Student Association to promote Georgian culture on campus and served as a student researcher within the Program on Georgian Studies, focusing on the history of the Georgian diaspora in the United States. As an Alex Booth '30 fellow, she will further her research on the Georgian diaspora in France, with particular emphasis on the historic community of Leuville-sur-Orge.
In addition to her work on diaspora studies, Nini is defending an independent research project titled "Russia’s Renewed Imperialism in Georgia: Borderization and 'Creeping Occupation' at the Administrative Boundary Lines." She presented her manuscript at the Undergraduate Colloquium on Russian and Eurasian Studies at Davis Center in April 2024 and at the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Northeast Network (REEESNe) Conference at Yale University in March 2025.
Nini will continue her academic journey with postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford.
