List of Graduates by Year: 2010s
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2012
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Blake Atwood (Ph.D., Persian), Lecturer (Near Eastern Languages), University of Pennsylvania
Kevin Burnham (Ph.D., Arabic), Assistant Professor (Arabic), Appalachian State University
Greg Ebner (Ph.D., Arabic), Arabic instructor and Deputy Department Head, U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
2011
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Zeina Halabi (Ph.D., Arabic), Assistant Professor (Arabic), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dissertation: Writing melancholy: the death of the intellectual in modern Arabic literature
Supervisor: Tarek El-Ariss
Shon Hopkin (Ph.D. Hebrew), Assistant Professor (Ancient Scripture), Brigham Young University
Dissertation: Joseph ben Samuel Tsarfati and Fernando de Rojas: Celestina and the world of the go-between
Supervisor: Esther Raizen and Michael Harney
Farkhondeh Shayesteh (Ph.D., Persian), Lecturer (Persian), Yale University
Dissertation: In search of identity: Hushang Golshiri's Ayenehha-ye dardar and other works of fiction
Supervisor: M.R. Ghanoonparvar
Peter Glanville (Ph.D., Arabic), Lecturer (Arabic), University of Maryland
Dissertation: The Arabic Verb: Root and Stem and their Contribution to Verb Meaning
Supervisor: Kristen Brustad
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
John Blasing (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The games behind the game: the process of democratic deepening and identity formation in Turkey as seen through football clubs
Supervisor: Clement Henry
Stephen Bush (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Continuity and change in the concept of freedom through three generations of the modern Arab Renaissance (Nahda)
Supervisor: Yoav Di-Capua
James Casey (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), Doctoral Student, Princeton University
M.A. Thesis: On the traumatic origins of political community in modern Syria
Supervisor: Yoav Di-Capua
Alexandra Frasca (Dual M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, M.B.A., Business Administration)
M.A. Thesis: Dubai, debt, and dependency: the political and economic implications of the bailout of Dubai
Supervisor: Clement Henry
Jeffrey Moe (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The perfect storm: violence in Qasim Era Iraq, 1958-1963
Supervisor: Yoav Di-Capua
Carmen Reza (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Culture shock, trauma, exile, and nostalgia in Iranian-American literature
Supervisor: M.R. Ghanoonparvar
Joanna Schenke (Dual M.A. Middle Eastern Studies / M.P.A. in Public Affairs), U.S. Department of State
M.A. Thesis: Oil Politics in the New Iraq
Supervisors: Clement Henry and Varun Rai
Kelly Stedem (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies), independent consultant, Beirut
M.A. Thesis: Syria and Saudi Arabia in Post-Ta'if Lebanon
Supervisor: Clement Henry
2010
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
Brittan Millman (M.A., Arabic)
M.A. Thesis: Key components in a successful Arabic immersion program for high school students: a case study
Supervisor: Mahmoud al-Batal
Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Leah Caldwell (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The Syrian private media and discourse of the development of the Syrian national economy
Supervisor: Karin Wilkins
Erica Chernick (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The influence of religion on the character and conduct of the Israel Defense Forces
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur
Lauren Grifka (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis:Muslims in Manhattan: those who built it up and those who brought it down
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur
Megan Holder (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Strange magic: healing and protection ritual in contemporary Islam
Supervisor: Faegheh Shirazi
Dart Risley (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: British interests and the partition of Mosul
Supervisor: Wm. Roger Louis
Alyssa Miller (M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies), Doctoral Student, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
M.A. Thesis: The animal at the scene of writing: narrative subjectivities of the Lebanese civil war
Supervisor: Tarek El-Ariss
Tatiana Poltoratskaia (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Russia's role in the Middle East: Russian weapons sales to the Syrian Arab Republic, 1950-2010
Supervisor: Ami Pedahzur
Rosalie Town (M.A., Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: The development and the use of the negation particles miš and mā...š in Egyptian colloquial Arabic
Supervisor: Na'ama Pat-El
Behrang Vessali (M.A. Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Iranian-Israeli relations in light of the Iranian Revolution
Supervisor: Kamran Aghaie
Jonathan Wolz (M.A. Middle Eastern Studies)
M.A. Thesis: Islamic foundations for effective water management: four case studies
Supervisor: David Eaton
