Congratulations, 2015-16 CMES Graduates!

June 3, 2016
2016 CMES graduates

CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of twelve students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students.

AM graduates and thesis titles

  • Hind Al-Ansari
  • Wadah Al Shugaa
    The Race for the Money: The Rivalry between Doha, Dubai, and Manama to Become the Region’s Financial Center” | Thesis Advisor: Roger Owen
  • David Babaian
    “Omar ibn Said, Son of Adam, and the People of Abraham” | Thesis Advisor: Marc Shell
  • Federica du Pasquier
    “Assessing the Impact of Gender on Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations” | Thesis Advisor: Claude Bruderlein
  • John Hambley
  • David Max Korzen
  • Medhini Kumar
  • Aya Majzoub
  • Kevin Moss
  • Finn Quigley
  • Elad Vaida
    “The Rise of Romanian National Consciousness and Identity” | Thesis Advisor: Cemal Kafadar

PhD graduates and dissertation titles

  • Kathryn Schwartz, PhD, History and Middle East Studies

    “Meaningful Mediums: A Material and Intellectual History of Manuscript and Print Production in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Cairo” | Advisor: Roger Owen

2016 CMES graduates