Mariami Khatiashvili is a public diplomacy scholar from the Republic of Georgia. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (TSU), with a doctoral dissertation focused on U.S. public diplomacy objectives in Georgia during the 1980s. Mariam serves as a visiting lecturer at TSU, where she has developed and teaches American Studies courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She introduced the first university course on public diplomacy in Georgia. In June and July 2017, she participated in the U.S. Department of State’s Study of the United States Institutes for Scholars program on U.S. foreign policy, hosted at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. Her research interests include U.S.-Georgia relations, public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, citizen diplomacy, national security, and strategic communications.