#  Congratulations, 2012–13 CMES Graduates! 

 





May 29, 2013

 

 

 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.](/news/cmes-am-students-present-theses-based-original-research)

 *\*Degree conferral November 2012*



 

 

 



 

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