Maia Barkaia is an interdisciplinary scholar. She holds a B.A. in Oriental Studies, an M.A. in Modern Indian History, and a Ph.D. in Gender Studies. These academic fields shaped her research and teaching interests, which lie in Imperial Entanglements and Modernity in the Caucasus and Asia between the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular interest in the History of Craft guilds and artisanal epistemologies, women’s history, borderlands histories and Georgian-Abkhazian historiography. Barkaia is an associate professor at the Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA) and teaches at Tbilisi State University. She is co-editor with Alisse Waterston of "Gender in Georgia: Feminist Perspectives on Culture, Nation and History in the South Caucasus" (Berghahn Books: 2017, paperback 2021).  Barkaia’s other recent project explores the postcolonial spectre over the discussions on the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict and the manifold ways in which the conflicting sides sought to employ history so as to lay claim to the future.

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