#  Congratulations, CMES Graduates 2017-18! 

 





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

 ![CMES Commencement 2018](/sites/g/files/omnuum9116/files/cmes/files/cmes_commencement_2018.jpg)

 



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ CMES News ](/news-type/cmes-news)
- [ Student News ](/news-type/student-news)
- [ 2017-18 ](/academic-year/2017-18)
 
 

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