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Meet the team

Team members and their individual research projects

Principal Investigator (PI): Stefan B. Kirmse
    • Blood Libel in Russian Imperial Georgia: An Entangled History of Colonialism, Georgian Jews, and Legal Struggle across the Wider Black Sea Region
    • ‘Traditional Crime’ (prestuplenie byta) in Central Asia. Bride-kidnapping and the Payment of Kalym in Long-Term Perspective, 1860s-present
Doctoral and postdoctoral projects
    • Leo Hedrich: Legislating Justice and Legality? Muslim Deputies in the Russian State Duma, 1906-1917
    • Katie Sartania: From Revolutionary to Socialist Legality: Georgian Perspectives
    • Lucien Turczan-Lipets: Forums of Dissidence: Ukrainian and Jewish Thinkers in Kyiv and Lviv, 1960s-1980s
    • Aikaterini Lykoudi: Russian-Ottoman Relations and the Karaite Question in Late Imperial Russia
    • Said Gaziev: Addressing the Abuser. Lessons Learnt from Petitions of Deported Individuals (Crimean Tatars and Meskhetian Turks)
    • Gevorg Avetikyan: Legal Nationalism: Strategies of Seeking ‘Justice’ in the Post-Stalinist Armenian SSR

Also in the picture: guest scholar Anna Tchintcharauli (Ilia State University, Tbilisi, working on “Forced migration in the Soviet Caucasus: Resettlement and Its Effects through the Oral Histories of Vainakhs and Khevsurs”); our project coordinator Maija Susarina and student assistant Archil Longurashvili.