Congratulations, CMES 2014–15 Graduates!

May 28, 2015

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

Paul Fargues
Philip Gardner
Logan Heiman
George Kraehe
"First Do No Harm: A Critique of the International Counternarcotics Regime in North Africa and the Sahel" | Thesis Advisor: Ousmane Kane
Nora Lessersohn
"Armenian Self and Ottoman Society: Christopher Oscanyan’s Oriental and Turkish Museum in London (1853-54)" | Thesis Advisors: Cemal Kafadar, Gulru Necipoglu
Wan Li
Katherine Lyman
Aaron Magid
Jonathan Mautner (Recipient of the 2015 CMES Thesis Prize)
"Financing Jihad: ISIL, Al-Qaeda and the Money Behind Mass Casualty Terrorism" | Thesis Advisor: James A. Baker
Jennifer Quigley-Jones
"Syrian Refugee Adolescents and Parental Involvement in Livelihood Programs in Lebanon" | Thesis Advisors: Denis Sullivan, Rima Rassi
Elsien van Pinxteren
"Gender, Parody, and Activism: Rethinking Conceptual Tools through Drag Performances in Lebanon" | Thesis Advisor: Soha Bayoumi
Andrew Watkins
"To Coin a Phrase: Counterinsurgency, Innovation, and the U.S. Military’s Enlistment of 'Enablers' in Iraq and Afghanistan" | Thesis Advisor: Tad Oelstrom