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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Thank you so much, Carrie!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

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American Academy of Religion @aarweb.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Candace Lukasik is the winner of the 2026 AAR Book Award for Best Work in the Study of Practices, Communities, or Lived Contexts for "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire." #AARBookAwards

Graphic announcing the 2026 AAR Book Award winner for Best Work in the Study of Practices, Communities, or Lived Contexts: Candace Lukasik for "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire". Includes a quote from the jury praising the sensitive and compelling account of Egyptian Coptic Christians navigating the US asylum process, set against a background of bookshelves and the book cover featuring warm-toned artwork of figures.

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Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to former YSAR on their awards from AAR! The awards honor books of distinctive originality, intelligence, and creativity, and these titles affect decisively how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted. Learn more about the awards: aarweb.org/news/2026-aa...

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My book, “Martyrs and Migrants” has received Best Work in the Study of Practices, Communities, or Lived Contexts from the @aarweb.bsky.social! Grateful to the committee for this recognition—I am absolutely thrilled! aarweb.org/news/2026-aa...

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🧵(1) Tel Keppe, Iraq, has historically been home to a large community of Syriac heritage Christians associated with the Chaldean Catholic Church. The manuscripts of the Qalb al-Aqdas Chaldean Church in Tel Keppe were digitized by 2010, before the village was captured by the Islamic State.

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

organizing (with @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social and milad) the final event before my year of khalwa

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

An exciting event! "The Making of Armenian America" at Columbia this fall.

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Center for the Study of Religion & American Culture @csraac.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

From new books to articles and interviews, our YSAR community keeps busy! Check out some recent work from YSAR. If you are a current or past YSAR member and have updates to share, send them our way. Learn more about YSAR: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

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HMML @visithmml.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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: bit.ly/3PuXLHS Josh's topic: "Manuscript Witnesses to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides."

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August 7, 2026

Manuscript Witnesses to the Assyrian and Armenian Genocides

Josh Mugler, Curator of Easter Christian and Islamic Manuscripts

Pictured: a manuscript digitized in the collection of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarchate of Baghdad, in Baghdad, Iraq. View online in HMML Reading Room (CPB 00180): vhmml.org/readingRoom/view/139280

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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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cmnd.bsky.social @cmnd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

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...

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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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And-Boo 👻 Jacobs (he/him) @drewjakeprof.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

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...

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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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Equator @equatormag.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“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...

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Standing on the Rubble • EQUATOR

On Gaza, ruins and mourning

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Arbella Bet-Shlimon @abshlimon.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

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-...

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Living Iraq

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Harper’s Magazine @harpers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

“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.

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Backsliding, by Meghan O’Gieblyn

On the paradox of willpower

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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

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

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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

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rajbir singh judge @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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...

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

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.

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

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

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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."

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

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

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Thank you so much, Andrew! (I am such a fan of your work—I use it many of my classes; thank you for all you do!)

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

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!

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

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!

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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.”

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Wow! I had no idea it was in print! Thank you for sharing—which paper is this?

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Aram, come to Buffalo and let this forever Buffalonian show you how it is done.

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American Religion @amrel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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...

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Allah yebarik fek! 🙏🏼Hope all is well, Michael!

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

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...

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

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Thank you, Phil, for tagging me in this! I received a comment to my @us.theconversation.com article arguing that, if evangelicals “saw” MENA Christians as persecuted Christians (in the US, or here in Palestine) then their responses would be different. That politics of perception is interesting to me

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

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

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

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Thank you for reading, Phil! 🙏🏼

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Candace Lukasik @clukasik.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Looking forward to my visit to Northwestern University at the end of April! Many thanks to Elizabeth Shakman Hurd for this very generous invitation. Please join us if you are in the Chicago area! @nyupress.bsky.social @csraac.bsky.social planitpurple.northwestern.edu/event/640909

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

As bombs sink metallic toxins into the earth and destroyed oil refineries send chemicals into the air, coating whole cities, we are thinking of the many harms caused by war's environmental violence as well as its military force. We've been here before: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

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Ecologies of War

This collection, Ecologies of War, extends ethnographic attention beyond “war itself” to include forms of war that are often unrecognized as such...

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