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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
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