Current Graduate Students:

MEIS and Joint History/MEIS graduate students may receive mail in care of the department office.

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Recent Ph.D.s (1999-2008):

• Livia Alexander (ArteEast): "Conflicting Images: Palestinian and Israeli Cinemas, 1988-1998"
• Elena Andreeva (Virginia Military Institute): "Russian Travelors to Iran in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries and Their Travelogues"
• Sabri Ates (Southern Methodist University): "Empires at the Margin: Towards a History of the Ottoman-Iranian Borderland and the Borderland Peoples, 1843-1881"
• Laura Bier (Georgia Institute of Technology): "From Mothers of the Nation to Daughters of the State: Gender and the Politics of Inclusion in Egypt, 1922-1967"
• Isa Blumi (Georgia State University): "The Consequences of Empire in the Balkans and the Red Sea: Reading Possibilities in the Transformations of the Modern World"
• John Chalcraft (London School of Economics): "The Striking Cabbies of Cairo and Other Stories: Crafts and Guilds in Egypt, 1863-1914"
• Munir Kamal Fakher Eldin (Skidmore College): "Communities of Owners: Land Law, Governance, and Politics in Palestine, 1858-1948"
• Michael Gasper (Yale University): "Civilizing Peasants: The Public Sphere, Islamic Reform and the Generation of Political Modernity in Egypt, 1875-1919"
• Sameh Iskandar: "The Reign of Merenptah"
• Wilson Jacob (Concordia University): "Working Out Egypt: Masculinity and Subject Formation between Nationalism and Colonial Modernity, 1870-1940"
• Kimberly Katz (Towson University): "Holy Places and National Spaces: Jerusalem under Jordanian Rule"
• Hanan Kholoussy (American University in Cairo): "The Making and Marrying of Modern Egyptians: Gender, Law, and Nationalism, 1898-1936"
• Liat Kozma (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Women on the Margins and Legal Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt, 1850-1882"
• Thomas Kuhn (Simon Fraser University): "Shaping Ottoman Rule in Yemen, 1872-1919"
• Stacy Liechti: "Books, Book Endowments, and Communities of Knowledge in the Bukharan Khanate"
• Mark LeVine (University of California, Irvine): "Overthrowing Geography, Re-Imagining Identities: A History of Jaffa and Tel Aviv, 1880 to the Present"
• Rebecca Molloy: "Semantic Aspects of 'Transitivity': Decomposition of the Term ta'addi in Medieval Arabo-Islamic Thought"
• Paul O'Rourke (Brooklyn Museum): "An Egyptian Royal Book of Protection in the Late Period P. Brooklyn 47.218.49"
• Walter Oller (deceased; formerly, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies librarian, Brown University): "The Poet as Antitribal Protagonist in the Ayyam al-'Arab"
• Geoffrey Porter (Eurasia Group): "At the Pillar's Base: Islam, Morocco and Education in the Qarawiyin Mosque, 1912-2000"
• Kristin Sands (Sarah Lawrence College): "Commentary (Tafsir) and Allusion (Ishara): A Comparative Study of Exoteric and Sufi Interpretation of the Qur'an in Classical Islam"
• Joshua Schreier (Vassar College): "Algerian Jews and the Boundaries of Empire"
• Paul Sedra (Simon Fraser University): "Textbook Maneuvers: Evangelicals and Educational Reform  in Nineteenth-Century Egypt"
• Sherene Seikaly (Georgetown University): "Meatless Days: Consumption and Capitalism in Wartime Palestine, 1939-1948"
• Pari Shirazi (New York University): "Filmnameh or 'Mental Cinema': A New Literary Genre in Persian Literature"
• Sandra Sufian (University of Illinois, Chicago): "Healing the Land and the Nation: Malaria and the Zionist Project in Mandatory Palestine, 1920-1947"
• Amin Tarzi: "The Judicial State: Evolution and Centralization of the Courts in Afghanistan, 1883-1896"
• Abed el-Rahman Tayyara (Cleveland State University): "The Reflection of non-Islamic Cultures in Early Islamic Universal Histories"
• Mark Wagner (University of Southern Mississippi): "The Poetics of Humayni Verse: Language and Meaning in the Arab and Jewish Vernacular Poetry of Yemen"
• Elka Weber: "Traveling through Text: Message and Method in Late Medieval Pilgrimage Account"
• John Willis (University of Colorado at Boulder): "Unmaking North and South: Spatial Histories of Modern Yemen"
• Carole Woodall (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs): "Sensing the City: Sound, Movement, and the Night in 1920s Istanbul"
• Amy Zalman: "Gender and the Politics of Arab Literary Culture 1945-1975"

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