Claire P. Kaiser is a historian of the modern Caucasus and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies.

She earned a PhD in history at the University of Pennsylvania; and an MA and BS from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

She is the author of Georgian and Soviet: Entitled Nationhood and the Specter of Stalin in the Caucasus (Cornell University Press, 2023), published in Georgian translation this year as ქართველი და საბჭოელი: ტიტულირებული ერი და სტალინის აჩრდილი კავკასიაში (Ziari Press, 2024). She has also contributed to edited volumes on nationalism and empire in the Soviet periphery.