Dr. Josh Mugler, curator of Eastern Christian & Islamic manuscripts at HMML, presents this week at the World Congress of Syriac Studies / Conference of Christian Arabic Studies in Romania. Details: https://bit.ly/3PuXLHS Josh's topic: "Manuscript Witnesses to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides."

Excited to share Part II of our @cmnd.bsky.social conversation, this time thinking with my book “Martyrs and Migrants” and my new project on Assyrians, indigeneity, and empire. Many thanks to @tisawenger.bsky.social for being such a generous interlocutor. @nyupress.bsky.social

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In the second part of their conversation, @tisawenger.bsky.social interviews @clukasik.bsky.social on _Martys and Migrants_. They discuss the value of transnational studies for unpacking the "tentacles of American empire." @nyupress.bsky.social contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

In part one of their conversation, @clukasik.bsky.social interviews @tisawenger.bsky.social on _Spirits of Empire_ (@uncpress.bsky.social ). "Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits...but they can never entirely be contained." contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-m...

Imperial Hauntings: Candace Lukasik Interviews Tisa Wenger on Spirits of Empire | Contending Modernities

Settler secularism aims to control religion and limit the spirits to their designated domain. But they can never entirely be contained.

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friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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“Witnessing, or looking and weeping, did not stop the atrocities.” In a brilliant essay for our first print issue, Isabella Hammad traces the motif of “weeping over ruins” in Arabic poetry – and the impossibility of mourning in Gaza, where destruction does not end www.equator.org/articles/sta...

Standing on the Rubble • EQUATOR

On Gaza, ruins and mourning

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Iraq is a site of contested sovereignties and a barometer for global crises. I’m excited to have contributed to this forthcoming volume (Edinburgh, 2026) that theorizes from Iraq to understand land, law, politics, and to imagine something better 🧿 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-living-...

Living Iraq

Living Iraq

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“The object of attention is ultimately less important than the discipline itself, which is meant to deepen one’s love for goodness and truth, and also to intensify compassion for others.” Meghan O’Gieblyn on Simone Weil.

Backsliding, by Meghan O’Gieblyn

On the paradox of willpower

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- Maddie Shorman on _Prioritizing Faith_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993175 - Amy Fallas on _Martyrs and Migrants_ muse.jhu.edu/article/993176

Very excited to be joining the conversations at Harvard Divinity School this coming academic year! www.hds.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...

Many thanks to Amy Fallas for this generous and thorough review of “Martyrs and Migrants” for American Religion! muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Available for preorder this Fall @routledgebooks.bsky.social @riccardiswartz.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Orthodox-Chr...

lebner and telliel - science, religion, and secularity: the view from relations www.bloomsbury.com/uk/science-r...

Science, Religion, and Secularity

Can the often-conflicted relationship between science and religion be seen in new light? In this volume, Ashley Lebner, Yunus Dogan Telliel, and their contribut…

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The first issue of the Sikh Research Journal under my editorial direction has been published. The issue is organized around Gil Anidjar's On the Sovereignty of Mothers (@columbiaup.bsky.social 2024). It is open-access, but you have to register. Please read! sikhresearchjournal.org/index.php/sr...

Grateful to Fred Stella for the invitation to speak on the "Common Threads: An Interfaith Dialogue" program broadcast on @wgvupublicmedia.bsky.social in West Michigan, an affiliate of @npr.org. We talked about "Martyrs and Migrants" @nyupress.bsky.social and a range of topics.

my latest article: "Conversion as Translation and Transference: Becoming Muslim in Colonial India." 🙏 @amandazillo.bsky.social, Harini Kumar, SherAli Tareen, & @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social & the editors of CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Conversion as Translation and Transference: Becoming Muslim in Colonial India

Abstract. This article proposes viewing practices of religious conversion through the conceptual optics of translation and transference. To view conversion as such directs attention to the dialectic o...

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Packed room for such an incredible conversation! Many thanks to CEDEJ for making this happen!

Candace Lukasik@clukasik.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Looking forward to my final book talk for “Martyrs and Migrants” this academic year in Cairo! @nyupress.bsky.social

Grateful to Aaron Michka for this very generous Mashriq & Mahjar review of “Martyrs and Migrants”! @nyupress.bsky.social lebanesestudies.ojs.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/ma...

A forthcoming @dukepress.bsky.social book I will be reading. "According to Islamic tradition, God has at least ninety-nine names. In Ninety-Nine, Amira Mittermaier presents ninety-nine short chapters based on her fieldwork and interviews with over one hundred Egyptians about who God is to them."

Looking forward to my final book talk for “Martyrs and Migrants” this academic year in Cairo! @nyupress.bsky.social

our history of the present issue is now out from @dukepress.bsky.social ! on multiple registers of the "incapacitation" of tradition read.dukeupress.edu/history-of-t... hooray

I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be a Yang Visiting Scholar of World Christianity at @hdslibrary.bsky.social for the 2026-2027 academic year. I'll be working on my second book on Middle Eastern Christianity and indigeneity. Looking forward to being part of the HDS community!

Next Thursday, I’ll be giving a book talk for “Martyrs and Migrants” at the University of Chicago, in conversation with the incredible Eman Abdelhadi. Many thanks to Callie Maidhof and Matt Harris for organizing this!

An anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian persecution abroad and the suspicion surrounding migrants in the contemporary US.

American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US

An anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian persecution abroad and the suspicion surrounding migrants in the contemporary US.

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Lukasik writes about the contradictory position of those US Xns who advocate for the “persecuted church” but also vote maga. “…my research shows how two realities - the narrative Christian persecution abroad and the suspicion surrounding migrants in the [US] - collide in the lives of Copts.”

This is very cool! Check out my @us.theconversation.com article in print!

Matthew J Kuiper@matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Opened my local paper and was delighted to see this excellent piece of public facing scholarship by @clukasik.bsky.social

china sajadian, debt and refuge: syrian farmworkers and the politics of displacement in lebanon www.sup.org/books/middle... hooray!

Debt and Refuge | Stanford University Press

Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita in the world, including up to 1.5 million displaced Syrians. Many are Syrian farmworkers, who for decades have sustained Lebanon's agricultural ...

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Check out Arab Americana, an awesome new journal founded by Dr. Edward E. Curtis IV! The journal is currently issuing a call for papers for their first issue. www.psupress.org/journals/jnl...

Many thanks to Mississippi State University for sharing the news on "Martyrs and Migrants" being awarded the Alixa Naff Prize in Migration Studies! @nyupress.bsky.social @khayrallahcenter.bsky.social www.msstate.edu/newsroom/art...

MSU faculty member’s debut book on Coptic Christian migration wins national book prize

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on limits: the critiques of homogeneity and the disclosure of traditions in secularism studies spectrajournal.org/articles/10.... looks great

On Limits: The Critiques of Homogeneity and the Disclosure of Traditions in Secularism Studies | Spectra

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Many thanks to @us.theconversation.com for the invitation to write this piece on "Martyrs and Migrants." "American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad-but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US." @nyupress.bsky.social @csraac.bsky.social tinyurl.com/3mf3ezhr

American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US

An anthropologist of religion shows how Coptic Christians navigate two competing realities: the narrative of Christian persecution abroad and the suspicion surrounding migrants in the contemporary US.

theconversation.com