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Degree(s):

• B.A., Political Science and International Relations, Canisius College, 2011
• M.A., Arab Studies, MESAAS, Columbia University, 2013
• Ph.D., Sociocultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 2020

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Title(s):

• Assistant Professor

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Links:

• faculty directory page

Bio:

 Lukasik is a sociocultural anthropologist of religion, transnational migration, and race, drawing on ethnographic and archival methods between the Middle East and the United States. I approach the study of migration through a long history of local and national narratives and affects, and a multilayered articulation of colonial and imperial legacies. My work seeks to understand migration as enmeshed within unequal balances of power and geopolitical interest, with attention to the ways American imperialism, and its European colonial antecedents, have (re)shaped migrant subjectivities, particularly among Middle Eastern Christians and Muslims.