Dr. Melissa Gayan

Senior Lecturer (2010).
B.A. , M.A. , University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 2000, 2003; Ph.D., Emory University, 2023.

Teaching and Research Interests: Russia and the former Soviet Union, the Caucasus; nationalism and identity, 20th century world history, Islam in world history.

Upper-Level Courses:

• HIST 3030 War & Technology in the 20th Century
• HIST 3030 History of Modern Eastern Europe

Website: Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information: 

Department of History
Georgia Southern University
P. O. Box 8054
Statesboro, GA 30460-8054

Office: #2090, Interdisciplinary Academic Building
Tel.: 912-478-5872
Email: mfgayan@georgiasouthern.edu
Fax: 912-478-0377

Select Fellowships/Grants:

• American Research Institute of the South Caucasus (Tbilisi, Georgia) 2011
• Russian and Eastern European Studies Travel Grant (Emory University) 2011
• Technology, Curriculum, and Pedagogy Fellow (Emory University) 2008
• American Councils Fellow (Tbilisi, Georgia) 2008

 Publication:

• “Gorbachev’s Reforms and the Beginning of a New History in the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic.” Ab Imperio (April 2004), 419-32.

Current Research:

• Dissertation: The Forgotten Revolt: The 1956 Pro-Stalinist Protests in Soviet Georgia and Its Cold War Implications”

Last updated: 8/10/2023