Angie Heo is an anthropologist of religion, media, andeconomy. She is broadly interested in minority politics, critical missionhistory, postcolonial nationalism, and global religious movements. Herfieldwork so far has focused on two traditions, Eastern Orthodoxy andEvangelical Protestantism, and her research has explored two geographicregions, the Middle East and East Asia. Heo's first book The Political Lives ofSaints: Christian-Muslim Mediation in Egypt (University of California Press2018) offers a form-sensitive account of Coptic Orthodoxy and Christian-Muslimrelations from before the Arab uprisings to their post-revolutionary aftermath.Drawing on traditions of martyrdom, pilgrimage, and icon veneration, itanalyzes embodied practices of imagination to grasp the vexed interplay ofnationalism and sectarianism in Egypt. Heo's second book (in progress) turns tovarious sites of religious freedom, transnational capitalism, and Cold Warempire in the Korean peninsula.