MSU Faculty Book Talk Series: Candace Lukasik

Candace Lukasik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion

Martyrs and Migrants:
Journeying across sites of transnational migration between Egypt and the United States, Martyrs and Migrants examines how American religious imaginaries of global Christian persecution have remapped Coptic collective memory of martyrdom. It argues that the commingling of American conservative and Coptic theopolitical subjectivities and practices has shaped a new kind of Christian kindship in blood operating through a double movement between glorification and racialization.