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Regional Staff
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Hans Gutbrod
Regional Director
Hans Gutbrod holds a Ph.D. and a B.Sc. in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Originally from Germany, he is the author of a Handbook for Professional Communication, which has been published in Georgia, Mongolia, Bulgaria and is currently being translated in other countries. His primary research interests are notions of judgment/evaluation across various disciplines, and within a transition context.
Prior to joining CRRC in 2006, Hans worked in the Caucasus region for several years. He has taught at Tbilisi State University and trained lecturers and higher education staff on methods. His experience includes helping to set up a Liberal Arts college in Berlin, working as a Long Term Election observer for OSCE, as well as teaching and training in various other institutions and organizations.
E-mail: hans@crrccenters.org |
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Robia Charles
Associate Regional Director
Robia Charles is a California native and a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She holds a M.A. in Eurasian and Russian Studies from the European University of St. Petersburg, Russia and a M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She also earned a B.A. from the University of California, Davis where she studied Russian and Mathematics.
Prior to joining CRRC, Robia was employed as a Graduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley for courses on Comparative Politics and Contemporary Russian Politics. She also worked as a community organizer in Northern California and as a limnological researcher in both Tanzania and Siberia. Robia specializes in comparative politics, post-communist politics and both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. Her academic interests include nationalism and the intersection of politics and religion, especially in the post-Soviet region.
E-mail: robia@crrccenters.org |
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Nana Papiashvili
Regional Research and Outreach Associate
Nana Papiashvili holds an MA. in International Relations and European Studies from Central European University (CEU), Hungary and a B.A. in Humanities from Tbilisi State University of Economic Relations. In 2003-2004, through a Freedom Support Act (FSA) exchange program, Nana studied International Relations at Wilson College in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Nana has also attended summer sessions at American University in Washington, D.C. in 2003 and passed courses in professional development at Bologna University in the summer of 2004.
Before joining CRRC, Nana worked on a variety of research project relating to external migration, ethnic conflicts and the autonomous regions of Georgia. During her studies, Nana served as an intern at National Democratic Institute of International Affairs (NDI) (Tbilisi Office), the Parliament of Georgia and the Greater Chambersburg Chamber of Commerce. Her research interests include Georgian ethnic conflicts and European integration.
E-mail: nana@crrccenters.org |
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Tinatin Zurabishvili
Data Initiative Project Coordinator
Dr. Tinatin Zurabishvili is the Project Coordinator for the CRRC Data Initiative. Since 1999, she has taught B.A. and M.A. courses in sociology, focusing on research methods, at Telavi State University and Tbilisi State University Center for Social Sciences, where she was a Civic Education Project (CEP) Local Faculty Fellow (2001-2003) and Academic Fellowship Program Returning Scholar (2005-2006). In the spring semesters between 2004 and 2007 she was an OSI Faculty Development Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Sociology. Her academic publications focus on social research methods, sociology of transition and sociology of the media.
Prior to teaching in Georgia, between1999 and 2001 Dr. Zurabishvili served as junior researcher for Yale University's project, Poverty, Ethnicity and Gender in Eastern Europe during the Market Transition. Dr. Zurabishvili also worked for five years as a sociologist at the Russian Center for Public Opinion and Market Research (now the Levada Center), where she worked on the Russian Public Opinion Monitor. Dr. Zurabishvili holds her Ph.D. in the sociology of journalism from Moscow M. Lomonosov State University (1999).
E-mail: tina@crrccenters.org |
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