Ketevan Gurchiani is Associate Professor of Cultural Studies at Ilia State University, Tbilisi, and chair of the board of trustees at the Caucasus Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development (CIPDD). She has been the recipient of numerous research grants and awards from Georgian, German, and US based foundations. Her research interests include different aspects of religiosity, with a special focus on everyday religion in post- Soviet Georgia. She is the author of several articles and editor of the volume Religion in Everyday Life (Ilia State University Press, 2018).