Dr. Christopher Sheklian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Mississippi State University. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago in 2017, and has held several Postdoctoral, Visiting Professor, and Adjunct Professor positions, including the Manoogian Postdoctoral Fellowship in Armenian Studies at the University of Michigan and at Radboud University, part of the ERC-funded “Rewriting Global Orthodoxy” project.
He served as the Director of the Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center from 2018-2020. He is the editor of the St. Nersess Theological Review and is on the steering committee of the Middle Eastern Christianity Unit of the American Academy of Religion. His most recent journal article is “Stational Liturgy and the Minority Right to the City,” published in City & Society. Currently, he is working on a monograph entitled Liturgical Rights: Armenian Minority Presence in Turkey.