Dr Sopio Kadagishvili

Dr Sopio Kadagishvili is a historian, specialising in the medieval history of Georgia, with a particular focus on ethnic perceptions and identity studies. In 2024, she successfully defended her doctoral thesis - Perception of Ethnicity in Medieval Georgia According to Georgian Hagiographical Sources (XI–XVIII Centuries).

Dr Kadagishvili is currently a scientific employee at the TSU Ivane Javakhishvili Institute of History and Ethnology, Department of Medieval Georgian History and Source Studies, and serves as an Associate Professor at the European University. Since 2015, she has been an invited lecturer at the University of Georgia, and between 2018 and 2023, she held a similar position at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate courses.

Her scholarly contributions include publications in Georgian and international journals, with a particular emphasis on Georgian identity. In 2022, she published the monograph - Georgian Ethnic Identity in the Middle Ages. In 2017, under a Tbilisi State University translation grant, she collaborated with Professor Mariam Chkhartishvili and Zurab Targamadze on the Georgian translation of the higher-education textbook Making History: An Introduction to the History and Practices of a Discipline.

Dr Kadagishvili has been an active participant in different national and international scholarly conferences and has frequently served on their organising committees. Since 2012, she has been a member of the editorial board of Georgian Source-Studies, and since 2020, she has served on the editorial board of Scientia; both journals are indexed in the ERIC Plus database.