May 29, 2020
CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of eight students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students.
AM Graduates and Thesis Titles
- Badriyyah S. Alsabah
- Sultan Faiez Althari
- Hannah M. Clager—Thesis: "The 'Houthification' of Education in Yemen: A Revival of Pedagogical Battlegrounds?" | Advisor: Rosie Bsheer
- Eleanor Takenaka Ellis—Thesis: "The Afterlives of Aftershocks: Collective Memory and the 1992 Cairo Earthquake" | Advisor: Soha Bayoumi | CMES Thesis Prize
- Thomas Roland Harris
- Ryan Herring
- Maria Khoury—Thesis: "Ghosts and Parallel Times: The Haunting of Palestinian Citizens of Israel" | Advisor: Rosie Bsheer
- Kit Hoi (Jerry) Li
PhD Graduates and Dissertation Titles
- Gwendolyn Collaço—Dissertation: "The Image as Commodity: The Commercial Market for Single-Folio Paintings in Ottoman Istanbul, 17th–18th c." | Advisors: Gülru Necipoğlu and David Roxburgh
- Ekin Kurtic—Dissertation: "Sedimented Encounters: Dams, Conservation, and Politics in Turkey" | Advisors: Ajantha Subramanian, Steve Caton, and Christine Walley (MIT)
- Arafat Abdur Razzaque—Dissertation: "The Sin of Ghība in Early Islamic Thought: Disciplining the Tongue in the Zuhd Tradition and Its Late Antique Background" | Advisors: Afsaneh Najmabadi and Roy Mottahedeh
- Mira Xenia Schwerda—Dissertation: "How Photography Changed Politics: The Case of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905–1911)" | Advisors: David Roxburgh and Gülru Necipoğlu | Alwaleed Bin Talal Prize for Best Dissertation in Islamic Studies honorable mention
