He holds a Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and has completed studies at the Classics Department of Ivane Javakhishvili State University (Georgia), Institute of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), and Graduate School of Education at Harvard University (USA). His doctoral dissertation, entitled “The Platonic Theology of Ioane Petritsi,” was published in book form by Gorgias Press (USA) in 2007 and was the first comprehensive work of its kind, exposing the philosophy of Ioane Petritsi to the English-speaking audience. In addition to his work at Ilia State University, Levan Gigineishvili is a teacher of History of Philosophy and Georgian Literature at the Givi Zaldastanishvili American Academy in Tbilisi.