Dr. Mariam Georgis is a Research Affiliate at Mamawipawin: Centre for Indigenous Governance and Community Based Research (Canada). She recently completed a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of Political Studies and Mamawipawin: Centre for Indigenous Governance and Community Based Research at the University of Manitoba (Canada). Originally from what is today known as Iraq, she currently resides in and is sustained by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and Haudenosaunee territory (Canada). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Alberta specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics of the global South. Her research uses Indigenous and decolonial feminist approaches to global politics, critical security studies, race and Indigeneity, global colonialism and decolonization, violence and nation-building, and politics of southwest Asia (Middle East), with a focus on Indigenous politics. She is the co-author of “Indigenizing International Relations: Insights from Centring Indigeneity in Canada and Iraq” (2021), “Violence on Iraqi bodies: decolonising economic sanctions in security studies” (2019), and the author of “The Rise of ISIS in Post invasion Iraq: A Manifestation of (Neo)colonial Violence” (2023) and “Nation and Identity Construction in Modern Iraq: (Re)inserting the Assyrians” (2017).