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.

Political Science

Assyrian Studies

Colonialism

Comparative

Democratization

Development

Middle East/Near East Studies

Minorities

Nationalism

Security Studies

State Formation

Iraq

North America

International Relations

Indigeneity And Race

Democratization From Below; Civil Society

Assyrian (native)

Arabic (native)