Candace Lukasik

is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis, and earned her PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research sits at the intersection of religion and migration, with a focus on Middle Eastern Christianity, U.S. geopolitics, and Muslim-Christian relations. For her first book project, she has received a Religion, Spirituality, and Democratic Renewal Fellowship for 2020-2021, funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Fetzer Institute.