In memoriam: Paula Garb

 
Paula Garb, University of California, Irvine anthropology and international studies lecturer emeritus and cofounder of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding, passed away on August 22 following a brief illness. She was 76 years old.

“Paula was a beautiful soul, a rare person who planted peace wherever she went,” says Daniel Brunstetter, UCI political science professor and current director of the Center for Citizen Peacebuilding. “As I grieve her passing, I think first of her students and the legacy that she leaves in them. I think of all the projects she was involved in which stand as a testimony to her dedication to make the world a better place. And I think of how meeting her early in my career, when I first arrived at UCI, opened new pathways that I had never imagined.”

Garb earned her bachelor's and master's in history at Moscow State University in 1980 and 1982, respectively, and went on to earn a Ph.D. in anthropology at the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of Anthropology in 1990. She joined the UCI School of Social Sciences in 1991 as a lecturer in both the Department of Anthropology and the Program in International Studies, which would later become the Department of Global and International Studies.

 
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