What an incredible week of celebration. Book panels at AAA and MESA, thinking “Martyrs and Migrants” and Sarah Bakker Kellogg’s “Sonic Icons” together, and a brief stop at AAR, reuniting with people that make my heart full. Thank you all!

We're concluding another successful AAR-SBL gathering, and it’s been wonderful to connect with all our authors in Boston! With tomorrow as the final day, we're giving away the remaining display books for free! Swing by Booth 813 starting at 8:30! #AAR #SBL #AARSBL2025

Our symposium on the 20th anniversary of the release of Saba Mahmood’s Politics of Piety is now available online, with thanks to @biqbal.bsky.social for bringing us together. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Many thanks to Fiona McCallum Guiney for this detailed and incredibly thoughtful review in @ersjournal.com of ‘Martyrs and Migrants’ @nyupress.bsky.social! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics is now available @fordhampress.bsky.social!🎉 fordhampress.com/anthropologi...

20 years after Saddam Hussein’s fall, what can upcoming elections tell us about the future of #Iraq’s democracy? Read our latest Crown Conversation by Killian Clarke, Candace Lukasik, & Kerem Uşşaklı: www.brandeis.edu/crown/public... | @kbclarke.bsky.social @clukasik.bsky.social

#ERSBookReview 📘 "This book offers a fascinating account of the interconnectedness between empire, migration, religion and race". Fiona McCallum Guineon reviews Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social by @clukasik.bsky.social Read the full review: doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Tomorrow!

Candace will also be hosting a workshop on the following day, where she'll delve into her research with Coptic and Assyrian groups. Explore how everyday life unveils the unseen mechanisms of empires. Workshop: buff.ly/Kz2qan1 @clukasik.bsky.social

Join Candace Lukasik on Oct. 30 for a discussion on "Martyrs and Migrants." Delve into how Coptic Christian migrants reshape religious identity through the imagination of the US empire, and explore the ethics of researching these topics. Don't miss out!

Last Thursday marked fourteen years since a very painful date: that of the Maspero Massacre in Egypt. Don't miss this new piece by @amyfallas.bsky.social for @timep.bsky.social looking at the politics of memory, the denial of state culpability, and the injustices that remain even today.

A huge congratulations to current YSAR members @clukasik.bsky.social and @riccardiswartz.bsky.social on their book Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics! Learn more about the book and their incredible work: fordhampress.com/anthropologi...

This past weekend we hosted another round of YSAR sessions! Scholars bonded, learned, ate, and explored Indianapolis. Learn more about the program and the current cohorts: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

I am very much looking forward to my visit to @cmu.edu later this month thanks to @nevineabraham.bsky.social for organizing a rich 2 day visit with a book talk, class visit, and workshop (link in comments). If you are in the area, please join us! @nyupress.bsky.social

Next Wednesday! @nyupress.bsky.social

On Friday, October 10 at 12 PM ET, AAR's Middle Eastern Christianity Program Unit is hosting a webinAAR on "Theology after Gaza: A Global Anthology" (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2025) as part of our Fall Fridays Scholarship Series. Register now! aarweb.org/event/theolo...

Friends and colleagues—I hope you can join us for an upcoming @aarweb.bsky.social WebinAAR conversation on "Theology after Gaza: A Global Anthology" this coming Friday October 10 at 12pm ET. Please see the details here: aarweb.org/event/theolo...

miriam ticktin's new book will be out in december press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... against innocence: undoing and remaking the world

Looking forward to my first Fall book talk for Martyrs and Migrants at the Croft Institute @olemiss.bsky.social! @nyupress.bsky.social

The second review of Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social written by Helana Marie Boutros has just been published in @amanthro.bsky.social. I have so much gratitude for this engagement with the book that centers its theological aspects and methodological-conceptual work.

Excited to have a chapter in this volume!

Our edited volume proofs for ‘Anthropologies of Orthodox Christianity: Theology, Politics, Ethics’—Available for pre-order now and out in November! With Foreword from Sonja Thomas and Afterword from Angie Heo fordhampress.com/anthropologi...

Another extensive review in Arabic of “Martyrs and Migrants” @nyupress.bsky.social from Coptic novelist Shady Lewis Botros—very grateful for this in depth engagement with the book! rb.gy/73wmdi

The first review of Martyrs and Migrants (@nyupress.bsky.social) written by Nevine Abraham has just been published with the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES). I am so grateful for this generous and thoughtful engagement!

📚📚📚New Book Review📚📚📚 Nada Moumtaz reviews // “Devotion to the administrative state: Religion and social order in Egypt” // by Mona Oraby @princetonupress.bsky.social 2024 Find it here in AE 52.3 Early View: ⤵️ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

My review of @galekenny.bsky.social’s “Christian Imperial Feminism” (NYU Press) is published and part of the Spring 2025 issue of @amrel.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55127

رحلة تحليلية و في كتابي : —— بقلم الكاتب الصحفي حسام حداد، كل الشكر والتقدير لهذا المجهود المميز! (The first review of Martyrs and Migrants is out—and in Arabic with al-Bawaba!) @nyupress.bsky.social www.islamist-movements.com/71629

My @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast interview on Martyrs and Migrants (@nyupress.bsky.social) is up. Many thanks to Diana Dukhanova for the invitation! newbooksnetwork.com/martyrs-and-...

Over the past two decades, Western politicians, think tanks, and NGOs have re-channeled their efforts into “saving” Middle Eastern Christians facing violence. In a post for the blog, Candace Lukasik explains what these efforts reveal about US empire.

A short, public-facing intro to Martyrs and Migrants just published on @nyupress.bsky.social From the Square blog nyupress.org/blog/2025/06...

For recent our 20th anniversary, we gathered Crown scholars to explore the challenges facing the #MiddleEast. Watch our panel on #Egypt & #NorthAfrica featuring @clukasik.bsky.social, Andrew F. March, @jlsowers.bsky.social, & Ian VanderMeulen, moderated by Eva Bellin: youtu.be/ylJWV_XiPKc

What does motherhood mean when hospitals are bombed and schoolbags become grave markers? Mohammed Abu Muheisen documents the unbearable weight carried by Gaza’s mothers in a war with no end. 🔗 www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

issue 15 of religion & society is out! and with it, our 20-year anniversary forum on talal asad's FORMATIONS OF THE SECULAR www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... aaron eldridge, brent eng, ashwak hauter, sohaib khan, jean-michel landry, candace lukasik, muneeza rizvi, and myself read its chapters

wrote some notes on @rajbirsinghjudge.bsky.social's wonderful book for the AUFS book event itself.blog/2025/05/31/n...

Thank you @christianitytoday.com‬ for highlighting a wonderful interview with author Candace Lukasik on how Coptic martyrs—and migrants—inform our Christian faith. You can read the article here:

My interview with @christianitytoday.com on Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social “Martyrdom…represents a way of life that entails everyday sacrifice…[and] migration is also a form of sacrifice.” www.christianitytoday.com/2025/05/egyp...

This past weekend we hosted the 2025 Spring YSAR Sessions! Look into what a weekend at YSAR looks like, from the opening reception to closing dinners, and all the learning in between! Apply for the 2025-2027 Cohort: raac.indianapolis.iu.edu/programs/you...

Today is publication day! 🎉 Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire, is now available @nyupress.bsky.social. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983322...

Candace's upcoming book, "Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Politics of US Empire," is out soon from @nyupress.bsky.social. Use code NYUAU30 for 30% off: nyupress.org/978147983322...

Many thanks to @migrationpolicy.bsky.social for informing me that they included Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social in their Migration Information Source newsletter. 5 days until publication day! 🎉migrationpolicy.salsalabs.org/source-march17…

Coming Fall 2025 from @fordhampress.bsky.social Co-edited with the amazing @clukasik.bsky.social. It’s also lovely to see another one of my photos grace the cover of a FUP book. 🎉

Coming Fall 2025 @fordhampress.bsky.social, Co-edited with @riccardiswartz.bsky.social 📚

This Wednesday, I’ll be giving the annual Christianity and Culture lecture in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Join us!

Looking forward to being part of this conversation today at @budiversity.bsky.social! Here is the link to the event: www.bu.edu/diversity/ev...

Surreal to hold ✨Martyrs and Migrants✨ in my hands! Publication day is fast approaching—pre-order your copy now from @nyupress.bsky.social, use code NYUAU30 for 30% off!

Hot off the press! The latest book in our Anthropology of Contemporary North America series with U Nebraska Press. Started this in 2013 with Carrie Lane, and this is our 11th title. Two more in press: next up, Prison Town: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Martyrs and Migrants @nyupress.bsky.social is out in the world! ✨

The call for papers for the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit of the AAR is now available! We're very excited to have @riccardiswartz.bsky.social as our new co-chair and look forward to your submissions- please share far and wide! (and thanks again to Sarah for designing the flyer!)

I made a starter pack for specialists in Eastern Christian Studies- check it out, share with others, and let me know who else to add! go.bsky.app/8a9jSuF

TOMORROW! Kicking off the publication of “Martyrs and Migrants” in March, I will be in conversation with Zainab Saleh at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. Register at the link below! The book is available for pre-order now with @nyupress.bsky.social, use code NYUAU30 for 30% off!