Alina Bessenyey Williams presented her paper “Mapping Mary: Lay Catholic Cartographies of Communist Hungary” at the November 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion. Her paper examined devotional texts used by the laity to map the space of Hungarian Catholicism in the 20th century, showing how everyday Catholics were building their own vision of Hungary amid the unsettled territorial disputes of the time. Her participation at AAR was generously supported by a Professional Development Award from the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, where she works as the Associate Director of the Islamic Studies Program.
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