Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire
Join us Monday, March 2, for a lecture by 2024-25 CURA Fellow Candace Lukasik. The subject of conversation with be Lukasik’s new book, Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire (NYU Press, 2025), examining how American theopolitical imaginaries of global Christian persecution have remapped Coptic collective memory of martyrdom in migration. Ayşe Parla, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, will serve as discussant.
Candace Lukasik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University. A anthropologist of religion, her research focusses on the transnational politics of violence, migration, race, and indigeneity in the Middle East, specifically Egypt and Iraq, and its US diasporas.
