Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Transnational Politics of Persecution
This talk examines the remapping of Coptic collective memory of martyrdom.
About the Speaker
Candace Lukasik is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Mississippi State University and a sociocultural anthropologist of transnational migration, indigeneity, violence, and memory drawing on ethnographic and archival methods between the Middle East and the United States. She is the author of Martyrs and Migrants: Blood and the Politics of Persecution (NYU Press, 2025) and co-editor of Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics (Fordham University Press, 2025).