Sabrina Ana Peric

Sabrina Ana Peric is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary. Her research explores the intersection of industrial scientific expertise, governance, and conflict in resource peripheries such as northern Canada and southeastern Europe.

• Focus on resource extraction's impact on social structures, environmental degradation, and political movements
• Founder of the Energy In Society (EIS) research group, promoting interdisciplinary energy research agendas
• Director of the Yukon Field School for experiential learning about Indigenous communities' resilience in climate change contexts

Her work connects industrial expertise to radical politics through historical cases like:

• Communist Party youth radicalization in 1930-40s Bosnia
• Petroscience and permafrost analysis in Arctic pipeline projects
• Militarization of industrial knowledge in Omarska mine atrocities

Community engagement initiatives:

• Supervising undergraduate PURE Research Awards projects
• Mentoring graduate students in Indigenous activism and memory studies