May 16, 2018
CMES is pleased to congratulate this year's graduating class of thirteen students who earned a master's degree in Regional Studies—Middle East and its graduating PhD students.
AM Graduates and Thesis Titles
- Ceren Ates
- Anna Boots—Thesis: "'The Boundaries of the Tunisian': Migration and Race in post-Revolution Tunisia" | Thesis Advisor: Steven Caton
- Blaire Byg—Thesis: "Changing Nature, Shifting People: Point Four, Water Development, and U.S. Refugee Policy in the Jordan River Valley, 1949-1955" | Thesis Advisor: Sara Roy
- Daniel Cord—Thesis: "The Date Palm and the Da'wa: Non-Religious Factors Favoring the Rise and Resiliency of the Saudi States" | Thesis Advisor: Wilfrid Rollman
- Mohamad Khalil Harb—Thesis: "Escapism by Design: An Ethnography of Leisure-Consumption Architecture in Beirut" | Thesis Advisor: Steven Caton
- Stephen Hurwitz—Thesis: "United Nations Security Council Resolution 242: The Role of Ambiguity" | Thesis Advisor: Salim Tamari
- Andrew McIndoe—Thesis: "UNIFL and the Changing Nature of Peacekeeping" | Thesis Advisor: Sara Roy
- Kim Quarantello—Thesis: "Middle East Refugees in Lowell: A Case Study on Refugee Resettlement—'American foreign policy f***** up my country, but the United States gave me a new life'" | Thesis Advisor: Sara Roy
- Mano Sakayan—Thesis: "Evangelizing in Eastern Anatolia: Historicizing the Rise and Early Work of the ABCFM's Harput Station" | Thesis Advisor: William Granara
- Mohamad Saleh—Thesis: "Estrangement: Transience and Being in Modern Arabic Literature" | Thesis Advisor: William Granara
- Jamil Sbitan—Thesis: "Lubricating the Machines of the Western World": Knowledge and Subjectivity in Aramco's American Employee Handbooks (1950)" | Thesis Advisor: Steven Caton
- Rebecca Wadness
- Theodore Wye—Thesis: "Islamic State Prisons: Structural Violence and Connections to an Authoritarian Past" | Thesis Advisor: Kristen Stilt
PhD Graduates and Dissertation Titles
- Ian McGonigle, History and MES—Dissertation: "Genomic Citizenship: Peoplehood and State in Israel and Qatar" | Advisor: Steven Caton
- Rubina Salikuddin, History and MES—Dissertation: "Sufis, Saints, and Shrines: Piety in the Timurid Period, 1370-1507" | Advisor: Roy Mottahedeh
