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CDFAI Fellow

ANNE IRWIN

Dr. Anne Irwin served in the Canadian Forces Reserve from 1972 to 1987, retiring as a Military Police officer with the rank of Major. She is a graduate of the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College’s Militia Command and Staff Course.  She holds BA and MA degrees in anthropology from the University of Calgary and a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Manchester.  Her PhD thesis, entitled The Social Organization of Soldiering, was based on extensive field research with a Canadian Regular Force infantry unit and was concerned with how soldiers in a peacetime army intersubjectively construct identities as warriors.During 2006 she conducted field research with Canadian soldiers deployed in Afghanistan.

Anne has taught courses in military anthropology both at the University of Calgary and at the University of Victoria.  She has been an invited speaker at Defence Research and Development Canada and at the 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group office study week and has consulted for the Minister’s Advisory Board on Gender Integration and Employment Equity.

Keywords: military anthropology, defence research
 

June 2009
Nothing is Rotten in the
State of Denmark

  by Jack Granatstein

Now Available:
Summer 2009 Edition of
"The Dispatch"

 

 

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