Candace Lukasik ’11 graduated from Canisius with a bachelor’s in political science and international relations. She earned her master’s in Arab studies from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University, and her doctorate in sociocultural anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Candace is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Religion at Mississippi State University. Her first book, “Martyrs and Migrants: Coptic Christians and the Persecution Politics of US Empire,” is to be published in 2025 by NYU Press.
The Department of Religious Studies and Theology is proud to recognize the important and exemplary work of this Canisius alumna.
Submitted by Nancy Rourke, Interim Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Theology
