#  Congratulations, 2024-25 CMES Graduates! 

 





June 16, 2025

 

 

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

   ![2024-25 CMES graduates](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/2025-06/Commencement_2025a.jpg?itok=ULdt-Xtk) 

 

CMES commencement reception, May 2025   ![2024-25 CMES graduates](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/2025-06/Commencement_2025b.jpg?itok=pmXIZKha) 

 

CMES commencement reception, May 2025

 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ CMES News ](/news-type/cmes-news)
- [ Student News ](/news-type/student-news)
- [ 2024-25 ](/academic-year/2024-25)
 
 

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