Dr Manuchar Guntsadze
Dr Manuchar Guntsadze is a historian, specialising in the political and social history of the Democratic Republic of Georgia (1918–1921), Soviet political ideology, and digital humanities.
He received his PhD in History at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, where, in 2023, he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled Anti-government rallies in Shida Kartli mountains 1918–1921.
Since 2014, Dr Guntsadze has been a Senior Scientific Employee at the Korneli Kekelidze Georgian National Centre of Manuscripts, Department of Archival Studies, where he currently serves as a senior researcher in the Department of Source Studies and Diplomatics. He has held teaching appointments at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, the University of Georgia, Caucasus University (English-language programme), and the European University. In parallel, he has served as Head of the Department of Social Sciences at a Georgian-British school in Tbilisi and, between 2021 and 2025, coordinated one of the unified national examination centres of the National Examination Centre of Georgia.
Dr Guntsadze has published extensively on the First Republic of Georgia. His publications include the monograph The Tskhinvali Region Conflict (1920), contributions to 1028 Days of Independence: Daily Chronicle of the First Republic of Georgia (1918–1921), and co-authorship of the first volume of Varlam Cherkezishvili’s Writings, published by the National Academy of Sciences of Georgia. He has authored different peer-reviewed articles in Georgian and international academic journals.
He is Editor-in-Chief of the bilingual scholarly journal Scientia, which is indexed in ERIH PLUS and Index Copernicus and the founder and head organiser of the annual international conference Scientia – Challenges and Tendencies in the Humanities (conference.sciantia.ge).
His current research at the University of Oxford focuses on “The Georgian Population According to the Wardrop’s Materials (Life of the People Seen from External and Internal Perspectives),” examining Georgian society through the interplay of foreign observation and indigenous perspectives.
