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Name Field Concentration Adviser Proposed Dissertation Title
Tenney, Jonathan Stuart Ancient Near East History .
Brinkman, John Single Mothers, Nursing Babes, and Blind Men: Servile Laborers around Nippur under the Kassite Kings
 
Bowman, Brad Blair Islamic History/Civilization Early Islamic History Donner, Fred The Status of Christian Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period
Eger, Alexander Asa
Islamic Archaeology .
Donner/Whitcomb The Formation and Settlement of the Thughūrc Awāsim Frontier in the Early Islamic Period
Felton, Heather Ruth Islamic History/Civilization Muslim Spain Donner, Fred Problems in Conversion to Islam and Religious Identity in al-Andalus during the 9th and 10th Centuries
Heddouchi, Choukri Islamic Archaeology .
Donner/Whitcomb Exchange Between Islamic Egypt and West Africa: an Archaeological Contribution
Hosein, Rasheed Islamic History/Civilization Early Islamic History Donner, Fred Thaqīf and Quraysh in the Jāhiliyyah and Early Islamic Periods (AD 590-750)
 
Davies, Vanessa Rowena Egyptology . Dorman, Peter Aspects of Peace in Ancient Egypt: A Lexical and Representational Study of (S)htp [note: aspirated h]
Trampier, Joshua Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Egypt Dorman, Peter Urban Settlement Redesigned and Redefined at Two Royal Cultic Foundations in South Abydos, Egypt
Shonkwiler, Randy Egyptology .
Dorman, Peter Protective Wings: The Hovering Falcon/Vulture and Winged Sun-Disc Motifs in Egyptian Temple Decoration and Other Contexts
 
Chou, Catherine Cuneiform Studies Assyriology Farber, Walter Direct Speech in Old Babylonian Legal Documents
 
Atcil, Abdurrahman Islamic History/Civilization Modern Turkish History Fleischer, Cornell The Formation of the Ottoman Learned Class and of Ottoman Legal Thought and Practice
Eryilmaz, Fatma Sinem Islamic History/Civilization Ottoman History Fleischer, Cornell Sehname Writing in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century: Its Formation and Cultural Context
Green-Mercado, Marya T.
Islamic History/Civilization .
Fleischer, Cornell Morisco Jofores: Apocalyptic Prophecies, Inter-Communal Relations and the Ottoman Habsburg Rivalry in Sixteenth-Century Spain
Varlik, Nukhet Islamic History/Civilization Ottoman History Fleischer, Cornell Disease and Empire: A Study of Plague Epidemics in the Ottoman Empire (1453-1600)
 
Coyle, Colleen Anne Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire From Hunter-Gatherers to Empires: The Emergence of Obsidian Exchange Networks in the Jazira and Zagros Regions
Hartnell, Tobin Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire A Historical Reconstruction of the Ancient Economy in the Kur River Basin, Fars Province, Iran: A Regional Landscape Study
Mahoney, Daniel Edward Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire Tribal Tribulations: The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Central Yemeni Highlands (1500-1000 BC)
Paulette, Tate Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire Magazines, Models, and Artificial Societies: The Archaeology of Grain Storage in Third-Millennium Northern Mesopotamia
Reed, Stephanie Dawn Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire The"Gift Ceremony" as a Rhetorical Device in the Apadana Processional Sculptures at Persepolis
Way, Justine Victoria Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Egypt Gibson, McGuire The Royal House of Giza in Transition. Life Cycle and Historical Context of an Old Kingdom Production Complex
Witsell, Alexandra Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire Archaeological Perspectives on Temple and Neighborhood in Third Millennium BC Khafajah, Iraq
 
Krakowski, Eve Shalen Hebrew Studies/Near Eastern Judaica Medieval Near Eastern Judaica Golb, Norman Jewish Children and Childhood in the Medieval Near East
 
Daniels, Joseph Lamar Comparative Semitics .
Gragg, Gene Writings within the Landscape: A Comparative Analysis of Epigraphic South Arabian Graffiti and Rock Art from the Dhamar Plains Valley (Yemen) and Qaryat al-Faw (Saudia Arabia)
 
Mineck, Kathleen R. Cuneiform Studies Hittitology Hoffner The Hittite Color System and the Use of Colored Materials in Ritual Context
 
Jay, Jacqueline Egyptology . Johnson, Janet The Narrative Structure of Ancient Egyptian Tales: From Sinuhe to Setna
Westerfeld, Jennifer Egyptology . Johnson, Janet In the Shadow of the Sphinx: Pharaonic Sacred Space in the Coptic Imagination
Williams, Malayna Ancient Near East History Egypt Johnson, Janet Mother and Father: Indigenous Categories, Ideas and Identities in Ancient Egypt
 
Akpinar, Mehmetcan Islamic Thought Islamic Political Thought Kadi, Wadad Abū Bakr and His Image in the Second/Eighth Century
Anthony, Sean William Islamics . Kadi, Wadad 'Abd Allāh b. Saba' and the Saba'īya: Shī'ism, ghuluww and the origins of Islamic sectarianism between history and theologumena
Armstrong, Lyall Islamic Thought   Kadi, Wadad The Qussas of the Umayyad Caliphate: Religious and Political Discourse in Early Islam
Bronson, Catherine Islamic Thought   Kadi, Wadad Eve in Islamic Exegesis
De Gifis, Adrian James
Islamic Thought Islamic Political Thought Kadi, Wadad
Al-Jahiz on 'Ali b. Talib:  Towards defining al-Jahiz's politico-religious identity
De Gifis, Vanessa Jill Islamic Thought Qur'anic/Exegetical Studies Kadi, Wadad Qur'anic Rhetoric in the Politics of the Early 'Abbasid Period
Luce, Mark Islamic Thought . Kadi, Wadad The Process of Frontier: Khurasan from the 8th through the 11th Centuries
McCune, Oran Islamic Thought .
Kadi, Wadad Al Juwayni's Concept of Illah: An Analysis of the Role and Definition of the Ratio Legis in the Writings of Imam Al-Haramayn
Pomerantz, Maurice Islamic History Islamic Thought Kadi, Wadad Licit Magic and Divine Grace: Language and Power in the Buyid Court of al-Shahib b. 'Abbad (366-386/976-995)
Shahin, Aram Aldo Islamic Thought Islamic Political Thought, Early Islamic Intellectual History Kadi, Wadad Struggling for Communitas: Political Thought in the Great Century of Change
 
Ulucan, Mustafa Mehmet Islamic History/Civilization Ottoman History Khalidi, Rashid Arab Nationalism During the Second Ottoman Constitutional Period: Ottoman Perceptions and Policies
 
Beetley, Michael Robert Comparative Semitics Cannaanite Pardee, Dennis Relative Clause Markers in Akkadian, Aramaic, and Hebrew
Kim, Koowon Hebrew Studies/Near Eastern Judaica . Pardee, Dennis Incubation as a Type-scene in the Aqhat, Kirta and Samuel Stories: Form-critical and Narratological Study of KTU 1.14, 1.17, and 1 Samuel 1-2
Lam, Joseph Northwest Semitic Philology   Pardee, Dennis The Metaphorical Structuring of the Sin-Concept in Biblical Hebrew
Prosser, Miller Craig Northwest Semitic Philology Ugaritic Pardee, Dennis The Bunusu in Ugaritian Society
Walton, John Northwest Semitic Philology Linguistic Philogical/Hebrew Pardee, Dennis Poetic Parallelism in the Book of Job
 
Nolan, John Stephan Egyptology .
Ritner, Robert Mud Sealings and Fourth Dynasty Administration at Giza
Scalf, Foy Egyptology   Ritner, Robert Passports to Eternity: Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts
 
Stratford, Edward Ancient Near East History . Roth, Martha How Firm Is the Family? Commercial and Family Structures in the Old Assyrian Merchant Trade
 
Corbett, Glenn Joseph Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Syria-Palestine Schloen, David Where Arabia Meets the "Brow of Syria": A Proposed Survey of the Southern Desert Basin of Jordan
Miglio, Adam Ancient Near East History Syria-Palestine Schloen/Richardson Historical Consciousness at Mari
Pace, Leann Catherine Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Syria-Palestine Schloen, David

A Comparison of Cooking and Serving Wares in Late EB III, EB IV/MB I, and MB IIA Syria-Palestine

Rau, Michele Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Syria-Palestine Schloen, David City Gates in Israel and the Ancient Near East
Struble, Eudora Jean Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Syria-Palestine Schloen, David From Rock to Stone: Creators and Creation of Stone Objects in the Syro-Hittite Iron Age
 
Corbett, Elena Dodge Islamic History/Civilization Modern Middle Eastern History Shissler, Holly Jordan First: Archaeology and Perceptions of National Identity in Jordan
Tallon, James Islamic History/Civilization Ottoman History Shissler, Holly The Albanian Rebellions of 1909-1912: Nascent Nationalism, Insurrection, and the Failure of Ottomanism
Yüksel, Metin Islamic History/Civilization Modern Middle Eastern History Shissler, Holly Mullah, Dengbej, and Intellectual: Continuity and Change in Kurdish Culture in Turkey (carat over second "e" in Dengbej)
 
Grossman, Kathryn Near Eastern Art/Archaeology   Stein, Gil Re-entering the Ninevite 5 Economy: Archaeological Investigations at Tell Hamoukar, Syria
 
Johnson, Katie Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Islamic Archaeology Whitcomb, Donald The Role of the Bektashis in the Ottomanization of Southern Albania
Mikati, Rana Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Islamic Archaeology Whitcomb, Donald Beirut and the Imām: Historical Archaeology of An Early Islamic Town
         
Binbas, Ilker Evrim Islamic History/Civilization Medieval Islamic History Woods, John Mythology and History in the Later Islamic Periods: The Oghuznama in Historical and Epic Traditions
Hemmat, Kaveh Islamic History/Civilization Iranian History Woods, John Through the Eyes of Others: Trade Diasporas and Early Modern Geographical Knowledge
         
Yazicioglu, G. Bike Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Anatolia Yener, Aslihan People of Kanes in the 21st - 17th c. BC: Communal and Individual Dimensions of Identity in a Cosmopolitan Center in Anatolia