Dr Giorgi Macharashvili

Dr Macharashvili earned his PhD in History from Tbilisi State University in 2015 with a dissertation titled “Georgia and the Great Schism (Historical and Source-studies Research)”. Since 2016, he has been affiliated with the Department of Byzantine Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia), where he currently holds the position of associate researcher. He also serves as the secretary of the Georgian National Committee of Byzantine Studies. Dr Macharashvili’s research focuses on medieval Georgian manuscripts, folk and oral traditions, the history of collective cultural identities, medieval flags and symbols. He has authored several publications, most important among them are: “A Georgian Translation of the Syriac Version of 'The Life of St. Gregory Thaumaturgus'”; “Original and Translated Georgian Historical Literature (A Bibliography of Manuscripts)”; “Rhymed Historical Texts: Bibliography of Georgian Manuscripts”; “Premodern Georgian Culture: Mirage or Reality”; “Two Monuments of Georgian Hagiography Concerning the Western Christians”; and “The Origins of Caucasian Alphabets from the Perspective of Historical Ethnosymbolism”. 

The title of his ongoing research project at Oxford University, conducted within the framework of the Georgian Studies Research Programme, is “Negatives and Photos of Unidentified Georgian Manuscripts Held in the Bodleian Library”.