{"id":1125,"date":"2016-06-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chgs-blog.org\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2017-03-07T14:33:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-07T14:33:03","slug":"student-spotlight-miray-philips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/student-spotlight-miray-philips\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Miray Philips"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the work of University of Minnesota students associated with the Center. Our first student Miray Philips, was recently awarded\u00a0Bernard and Fern Badzin Fellow <\/a>in Genocide and Holocaust Studies for the\u00a02016-2017 Academic Year.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Miray and Fern Badzin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Miray was born in Egypt, raised in Kuwait, and moved to Michigan to\u00a0pursue a college education. She graduated from the University of\u00a0Michigan, Ann Arbor with a BS in Psychology and Sociology. She then\u00a0moved to Minnesota to begin her PhD in Sociology, with a focus on\u00a0violence, collective memory, and the Middle East and North Africa. She is broadly interested in the experiences of ethnic and religious\u00a0minority groups within the Middle East and North Africa, specifically\u00a0as it pertains to persecution, discrimination and violence.<\/p>\n

Miray Philips\u2019s current research is focused on understanding how the\u00a0Coptic Christian community in Egypt and the diaspora makes sense of\u00a0their present day experiences in light of a long history of suffering\u00a0and persecution, and in turn how that history informs their\u00a0present-day experiences. While Copts in Egypt face persecution and\u00a0discrimination at the hands of the state and civil society, Copts in\u00a0Kuwait are at the difficult intersection of being a religious minority\u00a0and also expats. Copts in the US, however, experience relative privilege in a predominantly Christian country. During the fellowship\u00a0year she will be completing course work and interviewing Copts in\u00a0Egypt, Kuwait and the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the first in a series of articles highlighting the work of University of Minnesota students associated with the Center. Our first student Miray Philips, was recently awarded\u00a0Bernard and Fern Badzin Fellow in Genocide and Holocaust Studies for the\u00a02016-2017 Academic Year. Miray was born in Egypt, raised in Kuwait, and moved to Michigan to\u00a0pursue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49206],"tags":[53203,361,72025,74262],"class_list":["post-1125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-spotlight","tag-badzin-fellow","tag-egypt","tag-kuwait","tag-miray-philips"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1970,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions\/1970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}