Congratulations, 2012–13 CMES Graduates!

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class, which includes eleven AM students and nine PhDs.

Graduates of the Joint PhD Programs

• Aslihan Akisik (History & MES)
  "Self and Other in the Renaissance: Laonikos Chalkokondyles and Late Byzantine Intellectuals"
• Arbella Bet-Shlimon* (History & MES)
  "Kirkuk, 1918–1968: Oil and the Politics of Identity in an Iraqi City"
• Will Day (Anthropology & MES)
  "In the City, Out of Place: Dispossession and the Economics of Belonging in Southeastern Turkey"
• Nathan Fonder (History & MES)
  "Pleasure, Leisure, or Vice?  Public Morality in Imperial Cairo, 1882–1949"
• Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik (History & MES)
  "Negotiating Matrimony: Marriage, Divorce, and Property Allocation Practices in Istanbul, 1755–1840"
• Julie Kleinman (Anthropology & MES)
  "Dangerous Encounters: Riots, Railways, and the Politics of Difference in French Public Space (1860–2012)"
• Abigail Krasner Balbale* (History & MES)
  "Between Caliphs and Kings: Religion and Authority in Sharq al-Andalus, 1145–1243"
• Darryl Li* (Anthropology & MES)
  "Jihad and Other Universalisms: Arab-Bosnian Encounters in the U.S. World Order"
• Aria Nakissa* (Anthropology & MES)
  "Islamic Law and Legal Education in Modern Egypt"

Graduates of the Master's Degree Program in Regional Studies—Middle East

• Geoffrey Allen
• Rachel George
• Edward Golden
• Cristina Hughes
• Brett Levi
• Salmaan Mirza
• Reina Saiki
• Alexander Shams
• Hassan Shiban
• Rustin Zarkar
• John Zavage*

Click here for details on the thesis projects of this year's AM graduates.

*Degree conferral November 2012