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Name Field Concentration Adviser Proposed Dissertation Title
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
Atcil, Abdurrahman Islamic History/Civilization Modern Turkish History Fleischer, Cornell The Formation of the Ottoman Learned Class and of Ottoman Legal Thought and Practice
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
Bowman, Brad Blair Islamic History/Civilization Early Islamic History Donner, Fred The Status of Christian Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period
Bronson, Catherine Islamic Thought   Kadi, Wadad Eve in Islamic Exegesis
Calabro, David Hebrew Studies Near Eastern Judaica Pardee, Dennis Doing Things with Hands: The Ritual Use of Hand Gestures in Northwest Semitic Literature and Iconography
Chou, Catherine Cuneiform Studies Assyriology Farber, Walter Direct Speech in Old Babylonian Legal Documents
Corbett, Elena Dodge Islamic History/Civilization Modern Middle Eastern History Shissler, Holly Jordan First: Archaeology and Perceptions of National Identity in Jordan
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
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
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)
Davies, Vanessa Rowena Egyptology . Dorman, Peter Aspects of Peace in Ancient Egypt: A Lexical and Representational Study of (S)htp [note: aspirated h]
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
Emery, Virginia Leigh Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Egypt Dorman, Peter The Palace in Ancient Egypt: Toward a Definition of Form and Function
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
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
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
Grossman, Kathryn Near Eastern Art/Archaeology   Stein, Gil Re-entering the Ninevite 5 Economy: Archaeological Investigations at Tell Hamoukar, Syria
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
Heddouchi, Choukri Islamic Archaeology .
 Whitcomb/Donner Exchange Between Islamic Egypt and West Africa: an Archaeological Contribution
Hemmat, Kaveh Islamic History/Civilization Iranian History Woods, John Through the Eyes of Others: Trade Diasporas and Early Modern Geographical Knowledge
Hosein, Rasheed Islamic History/Civilization Early Islamic History Donner, Fred Thaqīf and Quraysh in the Jāhiliyyah and Early Islamic Periods (AD 590-750)
Jay, Jacqueline Egyptology . Johnson, Janet The Narrative Structure of Ancient Egyptian Tales: From Sinuhe to Setna
Johnson, Katie Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Islamic Archaeology Whitcomb/Fleischer The Role of the Bektashis in the Ottomanization of Southern Albania
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
Krakowski, Eve Shalen Hebrew Studies/Near Eastern Judaica Medieval Near Eastern Judaica Golb, Norman Jewish Children and Childhood in the Medieval Near East
Lam, Joseph Northwest Semitic Philology   Pardee, Dennis The Metaphorical Structuring of the Sin-Concept in Biblical Hebrew
Luce, Mark Islamic Thought . Kadi, Wadad The Process of Frontier: Khurasan from the 8th through the 11th Centuries
Mahoney, Daniel Near Eastern Art/Archaeology   Gibson, McGuire Tribal Tribulations: The Emergence of Social Complexity in the Central Yemeni Highlands (1500-1000 BC)
Miglio, Adam Ancient Near East History Syria-Palestine Schloen/Richardson Historical Consciousness at Mari
Mikati, Rana Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Islamic Archaeology Whitcomb, Donald Beirut and the Imām: Historical Archaeology of An Early Islamic Town
Mineck, Kathleen R. Cuneiform Studies Hittitology Hoffner The Hittite Color System and the Use of Colored Materials in Ritual Context
Nolan, John Stephan Egyptology .
 Ritner, Robert Mud Sealings and Fourth Dynasty Administration at Giza
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
Paulette, Tate Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire Magazines, Models, and Artificial Societies: The Archaeology of Grain Storage in Third-Millennium Northern Mesopotamia
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)
Prosser, Miller Craig Northwest Semitic Philology Ugaritic Pardee, Dennis The Bunusu in Ugaritian Society
Rau, Michele Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Syria-Palestine Schloen, David City Gates in Israel and the Ancient Near East
Reed, Stephanie Dawn Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire The"Gift Ceremony" as a Rhetorical Device in the Apadana Processional Sculptures at Persepolis
Scalf, Foy Egyptology   Ritner, Robert Passports to Eternity: Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts
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
Shonkwiler, Randy Egyptology .
 Dorman, Peter Protective Wings: The Hovering Falcon/Vulture and Winged Sun-Disc Motifs in Egyptian Temple Decoration and Other Contexts
Stratford, Edward Ancient Near East History . Roth, Martha How Firm Is the Family? Commercial and Family Structures in the Old Assyrian Merchant Trade
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
Tallon, James Islamic History/Civilization Ottoman History Shissler, Holly The Albanian Rebellions of 1909-1912: Nascent Nationalism, Insurrection, and the Failure of Ottomanism
Tenney, Jonathan Stuart Ancient Near East History .
 Brinkman, John Single Mothers, Nursing Babes, and Blind Men: Servile Laborers around Nippur under the Kassite Kings
Trampier, Joshua Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Egypt Dorman, Peter Urban Settlement Redesigned and Redefined at Two Royal Cultic Foundations in South Abydos, Egypt
Ulucan, Mustafa Mehmet Islamic History/Civilization Ottoman History Khalidi, Rashid Arab Nationalism During the Second Ottoman Constitutional Period: Ottoman Perceptions and Policies
Urban, Elizabeth Islamic History/Civilization   Donner, Fred The Social Identity of the Mawali in the Early Islamic Period (line over second a and over i in Mawali; entire word in italics)
Walton, John Northwest Semitic Philology Linguistic Philogical/Hebrew Pardee, Dennis Poetic Parallelism in the Book of Job
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
Witsell, Alexandra Near Eastern Art/Archaeology Mesopotamia Gibson, McGuire Archaeological Perspectives on Temple and Neighborhood in Third Millennium BC Khafajah, Iraq
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
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)