May 30, 2023
CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating students in our AM and PhD programs.
AM Graduates
- Shamma Faisal Al Bastaki—Thesis: "Al-Majaz: A Crossing" / Advisor: Steve Caton / CMES Thesis Prize
- Faisal Alghassab
- Giulia Benvenuto—Thesis: "Islam as a Source of Progress: The Project of the Progressive Islamists in Tunisia, 1977-Present" / Advisor: William Granara
- Aaron Boehm—Thesis: "Negotiating Sovereignty in the Kingdom of Libya: 1950-1954" / Advisor: Emad Shahin
- Micah Budway
- Hongli Fu
- Michael Grouskay
- Josie Koury
- Ritika Lal—Thesis: "The Cold War Makings of Saudi Surveillance: Labor and Dissent in the Lifetime of the Dhahran Airfield Agreement, 1945-1962" / Advisors: Sultan Alamer and Nora Doaiji / CMES Thesis Prize
- Zhixi Liu
- Nicole Plante—Thesis: "The Old Will Die but the Young Will Never Forget: The Role of Memory in Restoring Place, Presence, and Belonging for Palestinians" / Advisor: Sara Roy
- Matthew Utter
- Jesse Wilkes
- Lavinia Zhao—Thesis: "Economic Diversification for Oil-dependent Countries: Highlighting the Role of Institutional Quality" / Advisor: Kristin Fabbe
PhD Graduates
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Belle Cheves
History and MES
Dissertation: "Untidy Households: Kinship, Service, and Affect in Nineteenth-Century Qajar Iran"
Advisor: Afsaneh Najmabadi / Committee: Vincent Brown, Justine Landau, Kathryn Babayan -
Farhad Dokhani
History and MES
Dissertation: "Reason, Dissent, and Ecumenism in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life and Thought of 'Shaykh' Hadi Najmabadi"
Advisor: Khaled El-Rouayheb / Committee: Justine Landau, Roy Mottahedeh, Farzin Vejdani -
Marijana Mišević
History and MES
Dissertation: "Writing Slavic in the Arabic Script: Literacy and Multilingualism in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire"
Advisor: Cemal Kafadar / Committee: Ann Blair, Michael S. Flier, Molly Greene -
Eda Ozel
History and MES
Dissertation: "Morality of Plunder and Economy of Protection: Ottoman Corsairs in Mediterranean Trade Networks and Warfare, 1574-1685"
Advisor: Cemal Kafadar / Committee: David Armitage, William Granara, Gillian Weiss
