Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
Department of Political Studies
532 Fletcher Argue Building
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3T 5V5
Canada
ABOUT
Mariam Georgis is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Manitoba, located on the original lands of Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples, and on the homeland of the Métis Nation. She completed her doctorate in Political Science at the University of Alberta, located on Papaschase Cree Territory in Treaty 6 Territory, the traditional meeting ground and home for many Indigenous Peoples, including Cree, Saulteaux, Blackfoot, Metis, and Nakota Sioux. Her research interests include decolonial/postcolonial theories, critical security studies, race and Indigeneity, colonial modernity, violence and nation building, and Middle East politics with a focus on Indigenous politics. Her current project focuses on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and its drive for independence but complicates and disrupts this narrative by bringing in the question of indigenous land claims to the story and the Assyrian struggle to negotiate their existence within the parameters of the Iraqi state and the KRI. She is the author of “Nation and Identity Construction in Modern Iraq: (Re)inserting the Assyrians” in Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts. She is the co-author of "Violence on Iraqi Bodies: Decolonising Economic Sanctions in Security Studies" in Third World Quarterly and “(Re)inserting Race and Indigeneity and International Relations Theory: A Postcolonial Approach” in Global Change, Peace & Security. Originally an Assyrian from Iraq, she is a settler on Algonquin, Anishnabek, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat territory.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Comparative
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Development
Democratization
Colonialism
Security Studies
Assyrian Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Geographic Areas of Interest
North America
Iraq
Specialties
International Relations
Indigeneity And Race
Democratization From Below; Civil Society
Languages
Assyrian (native)
Arabic (native)
Education
PhD
| 2017
| Political Science
| University of Alberta
MA
| 2008
| Political Science
| McMaster University
BA
| 2007
| Political Science
| McMaster University
Abstracts
Nation and Identity Construction in Iraq
Nation and Identity in Post-2003 Iraq: Re-inserting the Assyrians
Post-2003 Iraq: A Postcolonial, Iraqi Perspective on the Crisis of “Democratic Nation-Building”
Erasing Assyrians: National Narratives, Indigeneity and Constitutional Rights in Post-2003 Iraq
