Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Candace Lukasik is an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Mississippi State University and a former Postdoctoral Research Associate at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her research examines the intersections of transnational migration, religion, race, and empire. Her first book manuscript, Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of U.S. Empire, ethnographically examines how the American politicization of Middle Eastern Christians has shaped patterns of migration and impacted inter-communal solidarities. For this project, she has received fellowships from the American Academy of Religion, the Social Science Research Council, the Louisville Institute, the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, and the Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University, among others.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Minorities
Transnationalism
Identity/Representation
19th-21st Centuries
Christian Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Human Rights
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Iraq
The Levant
Specialties
Eastern Christianity
Coptic Christians
U.S. Empire
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Anthropology
| University of California, Berkeley
MA
| 2013
| Arab Studies
| Columbia University
BA
| 2011
| Political Science/International Relations
| Canisius College
Abstracts
Coptic Revolution, Egyptian Revolution: Rethinking Coptic Political Activism beyond Citizenship
Mobilizing Copts: Lay Politics and the Coptic Orthodox Church in post-2011 Egypt
Migrating Minority: The Politics of Persecution between Egypt and the United States
Transnational Anxieties: Coptic Christians as Martyrs and Migrants
Geopolitical Reverberations: Sectarian Memory and the (Im)Possibilities of Arab American Studies
