Keti Tsotniashvili

Keti Tsotniashvili, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Education Policy at Ilia State University, Georgia and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (ESKAS Fellow, 2026/2027). She earned her PhD in Educational Policy and Evaluation from Arizona State University in 2023. Her narrative-ethnographic dissertation examined the transformation of academic identities in Georgia amid the geopolitical shift from Soviet to Western time and space. Her research explores how historical legacies and emerging geopolitical rationalities reshape universities, academic identities and knowledge production, and how scholars contest and negotiate these changes.