Nutsa Batiashvili is a professor of anthropology, the Dean of the Graduate School, and the Director of  the Memory and Anxiety Research Lab at the Free University of Tbilisi (PhD, Washington University in St Louis). Her research projects include the anthropology of anxiety, collective memory, and national narratives. She is the author of The Bivocal Nation: Memory and Identity on the Edge of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and the editor of two special collections: The Anthropology of Anxiety (American Anthropologist 2025) and Memory and Anxiety (Memory, Mind, Media 2025).