Congratulations, CMES 2014–15 Graduates!

May 28, 2015
Congratulations, CMES 2014–15 Graduates!

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

2015 CMES AM graduates