Megi is a DPhil Candidate at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford. Megi's doctoral research is built on her MA dissertation and aims to broaden its scope through in-depth archival research. It goes beyond history textbooks and includes literary works, paintings, films and a wider range of archival materials to explain the paradoxical linkage between the Georgian nationalism and Stalinism by examining the Stalinist cultural policy and the policy of history writing in the Georgian SSR through post-colonial and post-structuralist lenses.

Megi worked at the Georgian think tank Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) as an Analyst of Memory and Disinformation Studies within the frame of the project “Enhancing the Openness of State Archives in the Former Communist States”. At IDFI, she was involved in archival and historical research as well as the study of disinformation and propaganda discourses in Georgia. Megi is also an invited lecturer at the Free and Agricultural Universities, where she teaches a course on Political Ideologies and supervises Junior Projects and undergraduate theses. Moreover, she has experience of working at UCL’s academic journal - SLOVO as an Executive Editor and at the National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG) as coordinator of various grant calls.  

Research disciplines, interests and regions: 

History of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Caucasus; Society, Culture and Politics of the former Soviet republics; Nationalism; Archival Research; Ethnography