Mississippi State University Assistant Professor Candace Lukasik has received a highly competitive 2026 Collaborative Research Grant from the American Academy of Religion to examine religious communities through the lens of diaspora—populations dispersed beyond their ancestral homelands while maintaining strong cultural and social ties.

Mississippi State’s Lamar Conerly Lecture Series welcomes University of Chicago’s Robert Pape for a discussion on terrorism, spanning the Middle East to America.

An article by Mississippi State Professor of Anthropology Molly Zuckerman and her graduate student Lydia Bailey has been published in “Science,” one of the foremost scientific journals in the world.