Mariam Georgis

Mariam Georgis is Assyrian from now called Iraq. Displaced from her homeland as a child, she arrived in now called Canada and grew up on the land covered by the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, present-day Hamilton, ON. She currently resies on the traditional territories of the səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) West Coast Salish nations.

Mariam is an assistant professor of Global Indigeneity in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University where she teaches Global Approaches to Indigenous Feminisms and Indigeneities Around the World. Grounded in embodied decolonial feminist epistemologies, her scholarship is located at the nexus of global politics, critical Indigenous studies and Middle East studies. Her research interests include issues of global colonialism(s), Indigeneities and decolonization; global security and violence; and politics of southwest Asia.