The Tamar Shioshvili Center for American Studies was opened at the International Black Sea University

The Tamar Shioshvili Center for American Studies was opened at the International Black Sea University

US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan attended the opening ceremony

The Tamar Shioshvili Center for American Studies houses a library that has been filled with books donated to the American Studies program over the years. In the center, BA, MA and PhD programs students of American studies will work on their research topics and those researches will be reviewed by the Georgian and American professors of the field

In 2004, Tamar Shioshvili became the holder of a Fulbright grant from the US State Department and a researcher at the George Washington University’s Department of American Studies. This gave her an opportunity to develop a bachelor’s program and create an English-language master’s program and in 2007, the only English-language American studies doctoral program was opened in Georgia