#  Congratulations, 2022-23 CMES Graduates! 

 





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

- **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

   ![CMES Graduation 2023 group](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/cmes/files/grads-2022-23.png?itok=W92s6ya6) 

 

CMES commencement reception, May 2023

 

 

 



 

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- [ 2022-23 ](/academic-year/2022-23)
 
 

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