Department of History

Giorgi is interested in the history of environmental observation and collective empiricism. His research explores how environmental knowledge and data are gathered, circulated, and contested, and what happens to them when the structures and circumstances that produced them change or cease to exist. Giorgi aims to study these processes through following the emergence and development of natural and environmental sciences in the Russian Empire and their transformation in the post-imperial South Caucasus. He holds a B.Sc. from Cornell University and an M.Sc. from the University of Chicago, both in environmental sciences.