Fulbright Scholar – Lilly O’Toole
Fulbright Scholar Lilly O’Toole will visit Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University Faculty of Law and Social Sciences for a 9-month research visit. Lilly will conduct the research at the invitation and hosting of the Jean Monnet Chair (EUCONST), professor Malkhaz Nakashidze. After graduating from the top public school of public health in the US – the University of North Carolina, she spent the subsequent year living and working in Riga, Latvia. During her current project, Lilly will be exploring the mass exodus of migrants in Batumi since Russia’s full scale invasion of Ukraine and the implications of this new community on the receiving Georgian society within the context of its struggle toward a European future. She plans to connect with both the local and migrant community in an intentional way that upholds participatory practices and methods.