I believe that well-thought and designed communication can solve world problems, educate people, and bring enormous changes both to individuals and the public. My goal is to use communication tools to educate people, and vice-versa, use education to communicate effectivly.
Visiting Scholar
Communications Assistant
Journalist
Journalist
Producer/Journalist/Host
Reporter/Producer/Web-Editor
MA in Communications
Courses: Health Communication, Media Ethics, Contemporary Rhetoric, Qualitative and Quantitative research, Cultural Communication, Environmental Communicaiton, Performance Methodologies
MA in Nationalism and Ethnicity Studies
Courses: Identity and Foreign Policy of Former Post Soviet States, Visegrad Countries Europenization, International Negotiations, Georgian Identity, Intercultural Studies, Collective memory and Identity Politics, History of Georgian Nationalism
BA in Journalism and Mass Communicaiton
Courses: Introduction to Mass Communication, Information wars and Post Soviet Georgia, Media and Political Communications, Democracy and Citizenship, Journalism and PR, Reporting Conflicts, Foreign Media, Eelection reporting
MA in Civic Media, 2020
Summer Courses: Information Visualization, Truth, Lies and Accuracy in Digital Age
Workshops and conversations: Using Images to Build Historical Thinking skills, Immersive Virtual Field Trips, Designing Online Classroms with Google Sites, Teaching about Algorythmic Personalization, Creative Video Productions
Outsanding International Graduate Student Award
2020
Edmund S. Muskie Summer Internship
2020
Fulbright Graduate Scholarship
2018
Vaclav Havel Journalistm Fellowship
2016
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What can we learn from the history of Georgian political caricature and why this direction of journalism is important for the formation of democratic country? Having studied a century long history of Georgian political caricature I am offering my opinion on this matter.