Congratulations, 2024-25 CMES Graduates!

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM, AB/AM, and joint PhD programs.

AM Graduates

• Mohammad Al-Mailam—Thesis: "Who Comes and Who Goes? Explaining Citizens" Migration Preferences in the Gulf" / Advisor: Melani Cammett
• Abdulla Almarzooqi—Thesis: "Stories from the Gulf: The Construction of History in Historical Fiction Novels from the UAE and Kuwait" / Advisor: Nader Uthman (secondary: Rosie Bsheer)
• Axl Cheng—Thesis: "Sheep, Cattle, and Salt: Institutionalizing Hui Identity in ­Eighteenth-Century Qing China" / Advisor: Mark Elliott
• Danielle Greco—Thesis: "Beyond Borders: Foreign Intervention, Racial Hierarchies, and the Politics of MENA Refugee Exclusion" / Advisor: Mohammad Sagha
• Eliza Helmers—Thesis: "Sovereignty and Sacred Law: Ayatollah Sistani's Wartime Fatwas in Dialogue with Constitutional, Humanitarian, and Human Rights Law" / Advisor: Mohammad Sagha / CMES Thesis Prize
• Shireen Shah—Thesis: "Profane or Pious? Reconsidering 'Translation' in the Figural Frescoes of Qusayr ‘Amra" / Advisor: David Roxburgh
• Ian Thompson (AB/AM)
• Meredith Zielonka (AB/AM)

PhD Graduates

• Tarek Abu Hussein
  History and MES
  Dissertation: "Worlds Apart in the Ottoman World: Islamic Education in Bilād al-Shām and Bilād al-Rūm, 1530-1650"
  Advisor: Cemal Kafadar / Committee: Ann Blair, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Christopher Markiewicz
• Myriam Amri
  Anthropology and MES
  Dissertation: "Cash Country: A Revolutionary Biography of the Tunisian Dinar"
  Advisor: Malavika Reddy / Committee: Rosie Bsheer, E. Gabriella Coleman, Gustav Peebles
• Eda Çakmakcı
  Anthropology and MES
  Dissertation: "Mediterraneanizing Turkey: Gateways to Regional Agrarian Transformation"
  Advisor: Cemal Kafadar / Committee: Steve Caton, Michael ­Herzfeld
• Salmaan Mirza
  History and MES
  Dissertation: "Regulating Commerce: Law and Economic Life in the Late Ottoman Empire"
  Advisor: Cemal Kafadar / Committee: Lorenzo Bondioli, Emma Rothschild, Khaled Fahmy
• Maryam Patton
  History and MES
  Dissertation: "Guarding Against Heedlessness: Time and Temporality Among the Early Ottomans"
  Advisor: Cemal Kafadar. Committee: Ann Blair, Hannah Marcus, Tunc Sen, Giancarlo Casale
• Keye Tersmette
  Anthropology and MES
  Dissertation: "Marginal Inclusion: The Omani Border Towns Outside Oman"
  Advisor: Steve Caton / Committee: Ajantha ­Subramanian, Ieva Jusionyte, Rowan Flad