Congratulations, 2021-22 CMES Graduates!

June 06, 2022

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

AM Graduates

Reilly Barry
Christina Bouri—Thesis: "Mīrī and Mawat: From the 1858 Ottoman Land Code to Modern Israeli Land Grabs in the West Bank" / Advisor: Rosie Bsheer
Dutton Crowley—Thesis: "Modernity and Cultural Invasion: Ali Khamenei, the United States, and the Software Movement" / Advisor: Mojtaba Ebrahimian / CMES Thesis Prize
Joseph Cushner
Katie Falk
Ghazi Ghazi—Thesis: "Artistic Expression and Memory in Conflict: The Politics of Iraq War Art 2003-2011" / Advisor: Gareth Doherty
Uri Inspector—Thesis: "Arab Palestinian Labor in Israel, 1880-2000" / Advisor: Derek Penslar
Dialla Jandali
Sumaya Malas—Thesis: "Patterns of Ongoing Conflict Reconstruction Contract Distribution: Evaluating the Syrian Conflict" / Advisor: Kristin Fabbe
Faria Nasruddin—Thesis: "Halidé Edib Adıvar’s 'melting-pot' in the 'ghost-sky': Drawing the Early Turkish Republic into the Indian Ocean" / Advisor: Lerna Ekmekçioğlu (MIT)
Tianyu Qiao
Xuechen Wang—Thesis: "Incarcerated in Time: A Linguistic Analysis of the Palestinian Social Temporalities’ Development and Shift from the Nakba to the New Millennium" / Advisor: Arthur Kleinman
Sheng Zhang—Thesis: "A Perplexed Wanderer toward Modernization: The Jadid Movement as the Seed for the Flourish and Collapse of pan-Turkism and pan-Islamism in Early 20th Century Xinjiang" / Advisor: Cemal Kafadar

Chloe Bordewich
History and MES
Dissertation: "Leaking Empires: The Struggle over Information in the Eastern Mediterranean, 1870-1952"
Advisor: Maya Jasanoff / Committee: Arthur Asseraf, Rosie Bsheer, Khaled Fahmy, Cemal Kafadar
Caroline Kahlenberg
History and MES
Dissertation: "How Locals Became Settlers: Mizrahi Jews and Bodily Capital in Palestine, 1908-1948"
Advisor: Derek Penslar / Committee: Rosie Bsheer, Abigail Jacobson, Afsaneh Najmabadi, Sherene Seikaly
Aylin Yildirim Tschoepe
Anthropology and MES
Dissertation: "Brave New Turkey: Contesting the Production and Valuation of Bodies, Urban Space, and Ecology"
Advisor: Michael Herzfeld / Committee: Theodore C. Bestor, Ajantha Subramanian