Biography

Maia cooperates with EMC since its inception. In 2016 she joined EMC as a researcher and project coordinator. Her main tasks include planning, execution and supervision of the ongoing research projects. Maia is also responsible for writing blogs and opinion pieces on current social and political issues, conceptualizing and organizing EMC’s public discussions and forums, organizing and conducting workshops and trainings with various oppressed groups, communicating with activist groups and researchers, and planning, monitoring and implementing projects.

Academic interests: postcolonial studies, gender studies, social movements, Orientalism and muslim community, Modern Indian history and politics, politics of care and neoliberalism,(unpaid) labor and gender, politics of time.

Work Experience

2015-to present: Invited Lecturer - Institute of Gender Studies-  Tbilisi State University;

2016: Visiting Research Fellow (OSF/WEF), International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall - University of Oxford;

2015: Project Coordinator, Platform for Civic Activism - EMC;

2012-2014: Research Fellow  ASCN Research Project - Center for Social Sciences;

2012: Junior Research Fellow - Center for Social Sciences.

Maia has also participated as an independent researcher in many local and international research projects.

Education

2010-2015: An International Ph.D. in Gender Studies, Center for Social Sciences - Tbilisi State University;

2008-2010: Modern Indian History - Jawaharlal Nehru University (MA);

2003-2008: Oriental Studies (Indian History and Hindi language, BA) - Institute of Practical Oriental Studies.