Nino Zhghenti is a sociologist and professor at the Free University of Tbilisi, Georgia, and a member of the Memory and Anxiety Research Lab. She holds an MSc in Sociology from the University of Oxford and a PhD from the University of Milan. Her research examines various aspects of social protest, including affective polarization and the emotional dynamics of political participation. Her recent work is focused on youth activism, dignity in protest, and how protests are communicated through visual forms, particularly posters, across democratic and transitional contexts.