Miray Philips

Publications

• Philips, Miray and Joachim Savelsberg. Forthcoming 2023. “Social Fields, Journalism, and Collective Memory: Reporting on the Armenian Genocide in Legal, Political, and Commemorative Field Events.” Memory Studies.

• Philips, Miray. Forthcoming 2023. “Christians in Egypt: Transformations in Representational Authority and Narratives of Belonging.” In In the Eye of the Storm: Middle Eastern Christians in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Mitri Raheb. Wipf and Stock Publishers.

• Philips, Miray. 2022. “‘We Love Martyrdom, but we also Love Life’: Coptic Cultural Trauma between Martyrdom and Rights.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology. Online First.

• Savelsberg, Joachim and Miray Philips. 2022. “Epistemic Power of Universal Jurisdiction: Spreading Knowledge about Mass Atrocity Crimes.” Minnesota Journal of International Law, 31(2): 57-95.

Activities

Awards

• Religion, Spirituality, & Democratic Renewal Grant, Social Science Research Council , 2022-23
• Dissertation Fellowship in American Christianity, Louisville Institute, 2021-22
• Engaged Scholarship Award, Sociology Department, 2021
• 30 Under 30, Arab America Foundation, 2021
• Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, Human Rights Program, University of Minnesota, 2019 - 2020
• Global Religion Research Initiative Project Launch Grant, University of Notre Dame, 2018 - 2019
• Dr. Philip M. Kayal Fund for Arab American Research, Center for Arab American Philanthropy, 2018
• Bernard and Fern Badzin Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota, 2016 - 2017

Courses

• Social Problems
• Introduction to Sociology