Amiran Urushadze

Dean, Associate Professor, Department of History
Academic biography

From 2002 to 2011, he studied for his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees at Southern Federal University. On September 30, 2011, he defended his PhD thesis titled "Cultural Interactions in the Caucasus from the Late 18th to the Mid-19th Century."

From 2010 to 2020, he taught at Southern Federal University and worked as a research associate at the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

From 2010 to 2014, he participated in the implementation of research projects under grants from:

  • The Russian Humanitarian Scientific Foundation (Grant RGNF No. 12-31-08027 "The Russian North Caucasus: Historical Experience of Governance and Border Formation in the Region");
  • The Russian Science Foundation (Grant RSF 14-18-01442 "The Ukrainian Crisis and Issues of Socio-Economic Integration in the Azov-Black Sea Region");
  • The Presidential Grants Council of the Russian Federation (MK-4453.2011.6 "Practices of Violence in the North Caucasus: Genetic Signs, Forms of Manifestation, Dynamics, and Trends");
  • The Fundamental Scientific Research Program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Fundamental Problems of Modernization in a Multi-Ethnic Region Amid Rising Tensions."


In 2013 he was a scholarship holder at the German Historical Institute in Moscow.

Since September 1, 2020, he has been an associate professor at the Faculty of History at the European University in St. Petersburg.

He won the "Experienced Researchers" nomination at the VII International Competition of Scientific Works on Caucasian Studies and Southern Russian Regional Studies named after Yu.A. Zhdanov for the book «Российский Северный Кавказ: исторический опыт управления и формирования границ региона». Ростов н/Д: Изд-во ЮНЦ РАН, 2012. 272 с. (в соавт. с Т.П. Хлыниной и Е.Ф. Кринко) ("The Russian North Caucasus: Historical Experience of Governance and Border Formation in the Region." Rostov-on-Don: Publishing House of the Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2012. 272 pages. (co-authored with T.P. Khlynina and E.F. Krinko)). He also won the "Young Researchers" nomination at the X International Competition of Scientific Works on Caucasian Studies and Southern Russian Regional Studies named after Yu.A. Zhdanov for the book «Кавказ: взаимодействие культур (конец XVIII – середина XIX вв.)». Ростов н/Д: Изд-во Южного федерального университета, 2016. 280 с. ("The Caucasus: Cultural Interactions (Late 18th – Mid-19th Century)." Rostov-on-Don: Publishing House of Southern Federal University, 2016. 280 pages).

He was a finalist of the "Prosveshchenie – 2018" award for the book «Кавказская война. Семь историй». М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. 336 с. ("The Caucasian War: Seven Stories." Moscow: New Literary Observer, 2018. 336 pages).

Publications

Academic paper/Article

Books

  • 2020 Вольная вода. Истории борьбы за свободу на Дону. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2020. 304 с.
  • 2018 Кавказская война. Семь историй. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2018. 336 с.
  • 2016 Кавказ: взаимодействие культур (конец XVIII — середина XIX вв.). Ростов н/Д.: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2016. 280 с.

Reviews

Tutorials

  • 2019 Кавказ в политике Российской империи и русском общественном мнении. Ростов н/Д.: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2019. 115 с.
  • 2017 История Северного Кавказа: учебное пособие / Отв. ред. Д. В. Сень, А. Т. Урушадзе. Ростов н/Д.: Издательство Южного федерального университета, 2017. 282 с.