Miray Philips is an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Toronto. Her research explores the transnational politics, meaning, and memory of violence and suffering in the Middle East and its diasporas. This research has been published or is forthcoming in the Sociology of Religion, Law & Society Review, the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Memory Studies, and the Minnesota Journal of International Law. Her current book project, Persecution Politics: Copts and the Geopolitics of Religious Difference, explores the social construction and contestation of religious difference and religious rights through transnational advocacy networks. Empirically, it focuses on conflictual representations and advocacy on behalf of Coptic Egyptians specifically, and Middle East Christians more broadly, against the backdrop of the war on terror. She has a PhD and MA in Sociology from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and a BS in both Psychology and Sociology from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
