#  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

##  PhD Graduates

- **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

 ![CMES graduation 2022 group](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/cmes/files/cmes-grad-group-2022.jpg)

 

CMES commencement reception, May 2022

 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Student News ](/news-type/student-news)
- [ 2021-22 ](/academic-year/2021-22)
 
 

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