#  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](/news/jonathan-mautner-wins-cmes-am-thesis-prize-paper-isil-and-financing-terrorism?admin_panel=1))  
    "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 Advisor*s: 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](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/cmes/files/2015_am_grads.jpeg?itok=c_m6aCGD) 

 



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Student News ](/news-type/student-news)
- [ 2014-15 ](/academic-year/2014-15)
 
 

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