The University of Georgia

Anton Vatcharadze
Researcher
Facilitator of Humanitarian Studies and Potential Student Awareness
Master

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Education

Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University - Humanitarian - Bachelor - 2008-01-09 - 2008-01-06

Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University - Humanitarian - Master - 2009-01-02 - 2011-01-03

Ilia State University - Faculty of science and arts - Without Degree - 2013-01-09 -

Publications

Ancha Gospel - 2014

WWI According to the Documents Preserved in the National Archives of Georgia - 2015

Problems of Archival Descriptions in Post-Soviet Countries: A Case Study of the Central Historical Archives of Georgia - 2016

Pedagogy, modernity and nationalism in the Caucasus in the age of reaction, 1880–1905 - 2017

Regime Archives - 2018

Nikoloz (Karlo) Chkheidze 1864-1926 - 2019

Activities of the Church of the Russian Emperors Mission in Iran According to the Archival Materials of the Sakartvelo (Georgian) - Imereti Synodal office - 2019

Activities of the Russian Emperor's Mission Church in Iran according to the archives of the Georgian-Imereti Synodal Cantor - 2019

Conferences

Historical Region of Georgia - "Tao-Klarjeti" - 05-09-2012

The First World War - 18-06-2014

Technical and Field Related Problems of Traditional and Electronic Archiving - 13-04-2016

Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies - 26-06-2016

European archival landscape: Reaching out for new horizons - 14-03-2018

Slavonic and East European Studies - 13-04-2018

Archival and Source Studies - Trends and Challenges - 25-10-2018

International Conference - Archival and Source Studies - Trends and Challenges - 25-10-2018

Nationalist Historiography in Post-Communist South Caucasus - 15-02-2020

Scientific Projects

Summer School - First Democratic Republic of Georgia - 2013

The Issue of Batumi in the Foreign Policy of the Entente States (1918-1920) - 2013-2014

Georgian on the Doulab Christian Cemetery of Tehran - 2018-2019

Courses

Facts, Archive and Media-JMMB1220 ( 2022/2023; )

Anton Vatcharadze is implementing innovative projects in the field of humanities (history, memory studies) at the University of Georgia. He also heads the Archives, Memory and Soviet Studies Research Direction at the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI). Anton is a historian and has earned his Bachelor and Master's Degrees from Tbilisi State University. Currently, he is studying at the School of Arts and Sciences at Ilia State University. His PhD thesis is titled - Batumi in the International Policy of the Entente in 1918-1921. Since 2009, Anton has worked at the National Archive of Georgia. In 2012-2018, he was the director of the Central Historical Archive. During this period, Anton took part in projects implemented by the National Archive and various non-governmental organization: including many projects concerning the study of the history and sources of Georgia’s first democratic republic, as well as popularization of this period in schools and among students and other groups. Three of these projects involved the study of archival documents related to Abkhazia and Samachablo and ensuring their public accessibility. Anton Vacharadze was the winner of scientific projects of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation in different years.