Dr. Giorgi Cheishvili obtained his PhD in Social Anthropology in 2022 from the University of Bergen, Norway. His doctoral thesis focused on the Turkish-Georgian borderland. His research explores the emergence of categories of difference among ethnic Georgians bisected by the border, and is based on long-term fieldwork in the Artvin province of Turkey and the Ajara Autonomous republic in Georgia. Cheishvili’s work has contributed to social anthropological approaches to the study of borders by highlighting the manifold relationships between physical demarcations of space and the emergence of a sense of difference among formerly undivided ethnic groups. His current research interests lie in borders, symbolic boundaries, state, temporality and events as well as Turkey, Georgia and Eastern Europe. He has extensive experience teaching anthropology courses at Tbilisi State University (Georgia) as well as giving guest lectures at the University of Bergen and the University of Stavanger (Norway).