Giorgi Cheishvili

Giorgi Cheishvili is a social anthropologist specializing in borders, temporality, and the state, with a focus on the Turkish-Georgian borderland. He earned his PhD from the University of Bergen in 2022 and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, in 2023. His research examines how borders shape social and political life, particularly the ways in which physical demarcations produce categories of difference among ethnic Georgians historically connected across the Turkish-Georgian frontier. Grounded in extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Turkey’s Artvin province and Georgia’s Ajara Autonomous Republic, his work engages social anthropological perspectives on borders, emphasizing the interplay between material demarcation of space and the sense of difference. His broader research interests include symbolic boundaries, state power, infrastructure, temporality, and events, with a geographic focus on Turkey, Georgia, and Eastern Europe.