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Academic publications

Driscoll, J., Sichinava,D., and C. Berglund. 2025. “Ethnic Stacking in the Russian Armed Forces? Findings from a Leaked Dataset.” Post-Soviet Affairs 41 (3): 199–218. doi:10.1080/1060586X.2025.2484150. Publisher’s Page, Open Access · Replication
Harris‑Brandts, S., D. Gogishvili, and D. Sichinava. 2025. “#SpendYourSummerInGeorgia: Popular Geopolitics, Grassroots Activism and Tourism Marketing Against Russia.” Social & Cultural Geography 26, no. 3: 334–355. Authors’ Proof · Publisher’s Page.
Harris‑Brandts, S., and D. Sichinava. 2024. “Re‑Conceptualizing the Social, Environmental, and Political Hazards Associated with Displacement in the Republic of Georgia.” In Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of Natural Hazard Science: On Cultural Perspectives, edited by J. C. Gaillard, M. Rodriguez Alarcón, and C. Ocampo Go. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Authors’ Proof · Publisher’s Page.
Harris‑Brandts, S., M. Nikolco, J. Sahadeo, and D. Sichinava. 2024. “Local Impacts, Global Consequences: Assessing the Mass Displacement and Migration Tied to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.” Canadian Foreign Policy Journal 30, no. 1: 1–10. Authors’ Proof · Publisher’s Page.
Harris‑Brandts, S., and D. Sichinava. 2021. “Architecture and Friendship Among Nations: The Shifting Politics of Cultural Diplomacy in Tbilisi, Georgia.” International Journal of Heritage Studies. Author’s Proof · Publisher’s Page.
Harris‑Brandts, S., and D. Sichinava. 2021. “The Politics of Urban Recovery in a Stalinist‑Era Resort Town: Heritage Tourism and Displaced Communities in Tskaltubo, Georgia.” In Urban Recovery: Intersecting Displacement with Post War Reconstruction, edited by H. Al‑Harithy. Routledge. Author’s Proof · Publisher’s Page.
Rekhviashvili, L., D. Sichinava, and E. Berikishvili. 2020. “Urban Protest Movements in Tbilisi: Movements Are Strong, but Big Capital Is Stronger.” In Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited by T. Dariyeva and C. S. Neugebauer. DOM Publishers. Preprint, PDF · Publisher’s Page, gated.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “Elections, Political Parties and Social Change in Georgia (2003–2016).” In Georgia: From Autocracy to Democracy, edited by S. F. Jones and N. MacFarlane. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Author’s Proof, PDF · Publisher’s Page, gated.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “Cleavages, Electoral Geography and the Territorialization of Political Parties in the Republic of Georgia.” In Political Geographies of the Post‑Soviet Union, edited by J. O’Loughlin and R. S. Clem. Routledge. Publisher’s Page, gated.
Sichinava, D., and J. Salukvadze. 2019. “Changing Times, Persistent Inequalities? Patterns of Housing Infrastructure Development in the South Caucasus.” In Post‑Socialist Urban Infrastructures, edited by T. Tuvikene, C. S. Neugebauer, and W. Sgibnev. Routledge. PDF · Publisher’s Page, Open Access.
Sichinava, D. 2017. “Cleavages, Electoral Geography, and the Territorialization of Political Parties in the Republic of Georgia.” Eurasian Geography and Economics: 1–21. PDF · Replication.
Salukvadze, J., D. Sichinava, and D. Gogishvili. 2015. “Socio‑Economic and Spatial Factors of Alienation and Segregation of Internally Displaced Persons in the Cities of Georgia.” Spatial Inequality and Cohesion: Studia Regionalia 38: 45–60. PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2015. “Understanding Voter Decision‑Making in the Urban Context of Tbilisi.” In From Private to Public: Transformation of Social Spaces in the South Caucasus, edited by H. Gutbrod. South Caucasus Regional Office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation. PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2015. “Cleavage Theory and the Electoral Geographies of Georgia.” In Security, Democracy and Development in the Southern Caucasus and the Black Sea Region: Interdisciplinary Studies on Central and Eastern Europe 14, 27–44. Bern: Peter Lang. PDF.
Chkhaidze, V., G. Gogsadze, J. Salukvadze, and D. Sichinava. 2008. “General Characteristics and Regional Patterns of Electoral Behavior: 2008 Presidential Elections in Georgia.” Region and Regionalism 9, no. 2: 65–78. PDF.

Other publications

Keshelava, D., Shubladze, R., Sichinava, D., and T. Surguladze. “Political Landscape of Georgia. Election Compasss of Georgia 2024.” Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2025. ENGLISH
Shubladze, R., Sichinava, D., and T. Khoshtaria. “Youth Study: Youth study generation of independent Georgia, in between hopes and uncertainties.” 2023. ENGLISH GEORGIAN
Shubladze, R., Sichinava, D., and T. Khoshtaria. “Youth Study; Youth Voices of Azerbaijan: Attitutes, Values and Future Prospects.” 2023. ENGLISH AZERBAIJANI
Zubashvili, N., and D. Sichinava. 2022. “Youth in Georgia Have Little Trust in Unions.” OC Media, June 8. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D., and O. Saldadze. 2022. “Georgian Public Opinion on the State Security Services (SSG) Files.” OC Media, May 10. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2022. “South Caucasus and Russia’s War in Ukraine.” Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies at Carleton University, April 1. ENGLISH.
Zubashvili, N., and D. Sichinava. 2022. “Young Georgians Do Not Want a Military Solution in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.” OC Media, March 9. ENGLISH.
Kakhishvili, L, Keshelava, D., Papava, G., and D. Sichinava. “Georgia’s Political Landscape.” 2021. ENGLISH GEORGIAN
Sichinava, D., and O. Saldadze. 2021. “What Do Georgians Think about Tbilisi Pride?” OC Media, September 28. ENGLISH · GEORGIAN.
Sichinava, D. 2021. “Georgia Has a Vaccine Inequality Problem.” OC Media, August 31. ENGLISH · GEORGIAN.
Sichinava, D. 2021. “Georgia among Worst in the World for Vaccine Hesitancy.” OC‑Media, March 30. ENGLISH · GEORGIAN.
Sichinava, D. 2021. “A View of the Pandemic from the City of Balconies.” OC Media. ENGLISH PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “Georgian Political Parties on Education and Healthcare.” Netgazeti, October 25. GEORGIAN.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “Georgians Increasingly Open to Compromise with Abkhazia and South Ossetia.” OC‑Media, August 24. ENGLISH · Georgian.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “How Far Is Too Far? Public Opinion on Conflict Resolution in Georgia.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 116. PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “Lost in the Census: Mingrelian and Svan Languages Face Extinction in Georgia.” OC Media, June 9. ENGLISH · RUSSIAN · GEORGIAN.
Sichinava, D., and M. Atchaidze. 2020. “Minimum Wage in Georgia: Gauging Public Opinion.” Friedrich‑Ebert‑Stiftung Caucasus. ENGLISH PDF · GEORGIAN PDF.
Sichinava, D., and D. Gilbreath. 2020. “Artificial Intelligence and Russian Propaganda: It’s Not What It Looks Like.” OnThinkTanks Annual Review of Technology. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2020. “What Kind of Electoral System Do Georgians Actually Want?” OC Media, March 9. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2019. “Who Is Afraid of the Lugar Centre?” OC Media, July 9. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2019. “Georgia’s Far Right Are Anti‑Russian but Share Russian Narratives.” OC Media, April 2. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D., and N. Mzhavanadze. 2019. “Georgians Support Vehicle Technical Inspections Despite the Financial Burden.” OC Media, March 1. ENGLISH.
Berikishvili, E., and D. Sichinava. 2018. “Transformation of Urban Protests in Tbilisi: From Spontaneous Activism to Social Movements.” In Archive of Transition, edited by K. Neuburg, S. Pranz, W. Tseretelli, et al. Salenstein, Switzerland: Niggli Verlag Publishers. PDF · Publisher’s Website.
Sichinava, D. 2018. “Polarisation in Georgia’s Media Landscape.” OC Media, March 5. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2018. “Attitudes Towards Georgia’s Foreign Policy Choices in Times of Uncertainty.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 102. PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2017. “Will an Independent Mayoral Candidate Bring Political Change to Georgia?” New Eastern Europe, October 18. ENGLISH.
Gilbreath, D., and D. Sichinava. 2017. “Georgia: Proposed Reform Could Tilt Electoral Field Toward Incumbents.” Eurasianet, April 10. ENGLISH.
Gilbreath, D., and D. Sichinava. 2016. “Georgia Is Voting This Saturday. Here Are 7 Things You Should Know.” Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, October 6. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2016. “Cities in the South Caucasus.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 87. PDF.
Berikishvili, E., D. Chigholashili, D. Sichinava, and N. Zazanashvili. 2016. “Anthology of Urban Protests in Tbilisi.” South Caucasus Bureau of the Heinrich‑Böll‑Foundation. [in Georgian] PDF · Publisher’s Page.
Gilbreath, D., and D. Sichinava. 2015. “NGOs and the Georgian Public: Why Communication Matters.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 73. PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2014. “Book Review: South Caucasus at a Crossroad: Thorny Realities and Great Expectations.” South Caucasus Bureau of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, August 8. Georgian · English.
Sichinava, D. 2013. “The 2012 Parliamentary Elections in Georgia and Changing Attitudes toward Russia.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 48. PDF.
Sichinava, D. 2012. “Shades of Red and Blue – Regional Characteristics of Georgia’s 2012 Parliamentary Elections.” Caucasus Analytical Digest 43. PDF.

Media Appearance

Sector 3. 2020. “Disinformation, Covid‑19, and Public Opinion in Georgia.” [in Georgian]. (Facebook post)
Netgazeti. 2020. “Consolidation in Tbilisi, Contest in Regions: On What Georgian Opposition Disagrees.” in Georgian.
Radio Liberty. 2019. “Happiness Lost.” in Georgian.
Radio Liberty. 2019. “Anti‑Western Discourse in Georgian‑Language Media.” in Georgian.
Sichinava, D. 2018. “Georgia Elections: Salome Zurabishvili Becomes Country’s First Female President.” Euronews. Interview by Belle Donati. ENGLISH.
Sichinava, D. 2018. “Gruusia Sotsioloog: Venemaa Õõnestab Gruusiat Parempopulistide Kaudu.” Eesti Päevaleht. Interview by Krister Paris. ESTONIAN, gated.
Radio Liberty. 2017. “NDI Polls Are Not Aimed at Predicting Election Results.” in Georgian.

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This is a list of research projects I’ve been involved in personal capacities as an academic researcher. For projects at my work refer to respective organizations’ websites.

[Co-Investigator] 2023–2025: ”Megaproject Mirages: Uncovering the Politico-Economic Uses of Speculative Eco-Flagships in the ’Global East,’” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC Insight Development Grant, CAD $64,220).
[Co-investigator, project lead Prof. Jeff Sahaeo, Carleton University] 2022: ”Displacement in Wartime: Routes and Destinations, Space, Place and Pluralism: Russia’s Invasion, Ukrainian Actions and Consequences for Europe and Eurasia,” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC Connection Grant, CAD $49,895).
[Co-applicant in Georgia, project lead Dr. Lela Rekhviashvili, Leibnitz Institute for Regional Geography] 2019-2020: ”Green Mobilisations in the cities of Central Asia and the South Caucasus,” funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (CAD $60,000)
[Principal Investigator] 2019-2021: ”Examining the Social Impacts of Large, Private Sector Urban Development in Batumi and Tbilisi, Georgia,” funded by the Georgian National Science Foundation (CAD $50,000). Project webiste
[Principal Investigator] 2018: ”Elites, Historical Legacies, and Electoral Behavior in Georgia,” funded by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Tbilisi State University (CAD $6,000)
[Senior Researcher] 2015: ”Spatial Aspects of Urban Development of Tbilisi: The Influence of Mobility on Change of Social Environment,” funded by the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Tbilisi State University (CAD 7,000)
[Project Lead] 2014-2016: ”Social Contents of Changing Housing Landscapes of the Capital Metropolises of Armenia and Georgia: Institutions, Stakeholders, Policies” in collaboration with the Department of Human Geography at Tbilisi State University and Yerevan State University, funded by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Network (CAD $136,000)
[Senior Researcher] ”Coping with Marginality and Exclusion: Can IDP (Internally Displaced Person) Communities Successfully Integrate into Mainstream Urban Societies in Georgia?” funded by the Academic Swiss Caucasus Network (CAD $66,500)

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I’ve taught courses in research design, data analysis, and geography in both Georgia and Canada. Since 2013, I’ve supervised about thirty MA and BA honours theses. Below is a (partial) list of the classes I’ve taught in recent years:

Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada

Politics by Other Means: Agency and Engagement Beyond the Mainstream in Communist and Post-Communist Eurasia (graduate seminar). Course outline
Post-Soviet Urban Transformation in Eurasia (seminar for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Course website. Course outline)
Europe and Russia in the World (undergraduate)
Politics of the Caucasus and the Caspian Basin (undergraduate)

Tbilisi State University, Georgia

Introduction to the Social Science Research Methods (undergraduate, in Georgian)
Cultural Geography (undergraduate, in Georgian)
Quantitative Research Methods: Introduction to Applied Statistics (graduate, in English - website for R classes, website for SPSS classes)
Data Analysis Using R (graduate, in Georgian)
Designing Human Geography Masters Thesis (graduate, in Georgian)

International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (ISET), Georgia

World Regional Geography (undergraduate, in English)

International Black Sea University (IBSU), Tbilisi, Georgia

Cities as Sites of Memory: Post-Socialist Place Meanings and Contested History (with Suzanne Harris-Brandts, undergraduate, in English)
Introduction to Research Methods (undergraduate, in English)
Quantitative Research Methods (graduate, in English)

School of Media and Mass Communications at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs (GIPA), Tbilisi

Introduction to Research Methods (graduate, in English and Georgian)
Visual communications (with Sandro Asatiani, graduate, in English)

Components

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Table with the “zebra-table” and “responsive-table” components classes

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Next.js	97399	Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications as well as statically exported React apps.	JavaScript	MIT
Hugo	64086	Hugo is a static site generator written in Go. It is optimized for speed, easy use and configurability.	Go	Apache-2.0
Gatsby	53896	Build blazing-fast, modern apps and websites with React	JavaScript	MIT
Jekyll	45696	Jekyll is a simple, blog-aware, static site generator perfect for personal, project, or organization sites.	Ruby	MIT
Nuxt	41678	An easy way to export your Vue.js Web Application into a static website.	JavaScript	MIT
Docusaurus	40245	Save time and focus on your project’s documentation.	JavaScript	MIT

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Examples of using stretch and breakout classes.