Family Name (Surname): TCHKOIDZE

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 (http://iliauni.edu.ge/en), 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;

2012-2013 National 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 (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/imc/imc2014.html), 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 (http://www.rustaveli.org.ge/)

“The first (1845) and the second (1850) travels of Porfiry Uspensky to the Sinai Monastery” (in Russian “Первое (1845) и второе (1850) Путешествие Порфирия Успенского в Синайский Монастырь”), 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 www.rustaveli.org.ge). 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 and Religious Affairs-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 www.blacksea.gr)

Germany, Berlin, Center for Literary and Cultural research, “Cultural semantics of Georgia”, external collaborator, 2013-2014 http://www.zfl-berlin.org/zfl-english.html

“Batumi, Odessa, Trabzon. The Cultural Semantics of the Black Sea from the Perspective of Eastern Port Cities” Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation 2016–2018, http://www.zfl-berlin.org/the-cultural-semantics-of-the-black-sea-from-the-perspective-of-eastern-port-cities.html

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)

2012-2013 Grant 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, Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.)

LANGUAGES: Georgian (native); Modern Greek (fluent); classical Greek (advanced); Russian (fluent); English (fluent);