Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - DYNAMICS

Ana Karalashvili is a PhD candidate at the Research Training Group "The Dynamics of Demography, Democratic Processes and Public Policy" (DYNAMICS), jointly organised by the Hertie School and the Department of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, starting September 2022.

Ana Karalashvili is interested in life-course inequalities and youth studies. Under the supervision of Prof. Johannes Giesecke, she will examine the social inequality of transition to adulthood from a cross-country comparative perspective. Her research is motivated by the question of what the roles of social origins and individual socioeconomic achievements are in the stratification of school-to-work transitions and family formation in the context of different welfare policy regimes.

Prior to joining DYNAMICS, Ana completed her M.A. in Sociology at Free University Berlin with the support of the German Exchange Service (DAAD) and received a B.A. in Sociology from Tbilisi State University with an exchange semester spent at the University of Helsinki.

Throughout the past years, Ana worked as a research assistant in different institutions in Germany and Georgia, including the Center for East European and International Studies (ZOiS) in Berlin and the Cluster of Excellence ‘Contestations of the liberal script’ at Free University Berlin.

(In progress)