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Mary Isaac | Research Program

This paper seeks to answer the following question: What explains the variation in paramilitary group formation within an ethnic group? This question arises from the fact and observation of the nine competing Assyrian Paramilitary groups exist in Iraq that primarily serve to protect the Assyrian peoples and villages. To explore this question, I will engage in in-depth interviews with current paramilitary members of each existing Assyrian militia, their parents, and finally, if possible, their grandparents.

AIT 2020 | Stories-so-far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries

The Department of Anthropology at UCI is pleased to be holding our 12th annual graduate student conference, Anthropology in Transit, on February 7-8, 2020. Our conference, Stories-so-far: Spatial Knowledges and Imaginaries, explores ideas of circulatory space, spatial margins and centers, placemaking, and practices of spatial justice and resistance.