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Marie Levant is a prominent Marie Curie Research Fellow currently affiliated with the French School in Rome (École française de Rome) and the French Institute for the Near East (Institut français du Proche-Orient/IFPO) in Beirut. She also holds a fellowship at the Convergences Migrations Institute. Dr. Levant specializes in Vatican diplomacy, ecumenical and interfaith issues, and the religious dimension of modern humanitarianism, with particular focus on transnational Catholic aid networks in the Middle East since the 1920s.
Her research examines how Catholic networks provided both missionary and humanitarian assistance to Armenians and Eastern Christians, and later to Palestinians after the establishment of Israel, combining emergency relief with educational programs, longer-term assistance, advocacy, and informal diplomacy. Drawing on extensive archival material and fieldwork across Lebanon, the Middle East, Rome, and the United States, her work explores the complex intersections between humanitarian efforts, missionary perspectives, and diplomatic considerations.
Dr. Levant leads the HUMANE project on faith-based humanitarianism in the Middle East in the 20th century and co-leads the COMPART project on Jesuit Missionary Constructions of Armenian and Turkish Heritage. Her recent publications analyze Vatican diplomacy, the Pius XII archives, religious responses to migration, and the historical development of Catholic humanitarian efforts.
Among her notable achievements, Dr. Levant has received the prestigious Marie Curie Research Fellowship along with grants from the Gerda Henkel Foundation and the Foundation for Religious Studies in Bologna. She has published extensively in leading journals and recently co-edited special issues on religion and migration, and religion and humanitarianism.
As a researcher at the intersection of religious studies, migration studies, and diplomatic history, Dr. Levant contributes significantly to our understanding of how religious institutions have shaped humanitarian responses to displacement and conflict throughout the 20th century, with particular attention to the Middle Eastern context.
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