Oliver Reisner

Oliver Reisner is Professor in European and Caucasian Studies at Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia). After earning his Dr. phil. in East European History at Georg August University in Göttingen in 2000, he worked as coordinator for the MA rogram “Central Asia / Caucasus” at Humboldt University Berlin (2000–2003), served as human rights manager of an EU-funded civic integration project with World Vision International (2003–2005) and operations manager at the Delegation of the EU to Georgia (2005–2015). He published articles on Europeanization, religion, specifics of civil society in Georgia, and authored the Georgia country reports for the Bertelsmann Transformation Index 2016, 2018, and 2020. He is board member of the Association of European Studies for the Caucasus (AESC) and member of the advisory council of the European Journal of Minority Issues (EJM). So far, he published a monograph and 28 papers in German, Georgian, and English journals and volumes. He is co-editor of the book series Caucasian Studies.