Alumni Placement
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Erin Atwell | "GODFEARING: A LITERARY AND ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY OF TAQWĀ IN EARLY ISLAMIC LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN PREACHING "
Tahera Qutbuddin & Hussein Agrama |
Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Bard College |
Raghda (Didi) El-Behaedi | "A Story of Resilience: Using Remote Sensing, GIS, and Geophysical Techniques to Reconstruct Paleolake and Settlement Development in the Egyptian Fayum Depression"
Nadine Moeller & Mehrnoush Soroush |
Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology in the Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion, University of Missouri |
Betül Kaya | "A Sociolegal History of Judging non-Muslim Communal Affairs in early seventeenth-century greater Istanbul "
Hakan Karateke |
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Veronica Morriss | "THE ISLAMIC MARITIME FRONTIER: TRADE AND TRANSFORMATION ALONG THE COAST OF BILĀD AL-SHĀM (SYRIA-PALESTINE) DURING THE EARLY ISLAMIC PERIOD "
Donald Whitcomb |
Research Associate, Institute of Nautical Archaeology |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Elon Harvey | "GREEN JARS AND OTHER PROHIBITED RECEPTACLES IN EARLY ISLAMIC LAW"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
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Alexandra Hoffmann | "STRONG WARRIORS, LIMINAL LOVERS, AND BEARDLESS MEN: MASCULINITIES AND EMBODIMENT IN PRE-MODERN PERSIAN LITERATURE"
Franklin Lewis & Thibaut d'Hurbert |
Assistant Professor of Classical Persian Literature, Department of Asian Studies, The University of British Columbia |
Allison Kanner-Botan | "Maddening Love: Islamic Thought and the Politics of Desire in the Legend ofLayla and Majnun"
Michael Sells & Tahera Qutbuddin/Franklin Lewis |
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow , the University of Colorado Boulder |
Stephanie Kraver | "(UN)BELIEVERS IN TIMES OF WAR: DARWISH AND RAVIKOVITCH’S POETICS OF POSSIBILITY IN PALESTINE/ISRAEL"
Ghenwa Hayek |
Teaching Fellow, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago |
Thalia Lysen | "Staging Kingship: A Performance-Oriented Approach to the Hittite Theatre of State"
Theo van den Hout |
Policy Officer, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in The Hague |
Colton Grant Siegmund | "THE MORPHOLOGICAL MEANS FOR CODING MODALITY IN THE SUMERIANVERBAL COMPLEX"
Petra Goedegebuure & Chris Woods |
Research Associate (VIEWS Project), The University of Cambridge |
Luiza Osorio G. da Silva | "Kingship in the Everyday: Experiencing Royal Authority in the Middle Kingdom"
James Osborne & Nadine Moeller |
Assistant Professor of Ancient Art History and Archeology, the University of California, Irvine |
Ziting Wang | "INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND MISCOMMUNICATION"
Brian Muhs |
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, Pennsylvania State University |
Zach Winters | "MESSIANISM, OCCULTISM, AND POETICS IN THE 15TH-CENTURY PERSIANATE WORLD: THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ĀẔARĪ ISFARĀYINĪ (D. 866/1461-2)"
John Woods |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Joseph Cross | "The Poetics of Plot in the Egyptian and Judean Novela"
Dennis Pardee & Robert Ritner |
Research fellow, ERC project "From Texts to Literature: Demotic Egyptian Papyri and the Formation of the Hebrew Bible" (DEMBIB), Humboldt University Berlin, |
Ella Karev | "Slavery and Servitude in Late Period Egypt (c. 900 – 330 BC)"
Brian Muhs |
Senio Lecturer in Egyptology, Tel Aviv University |
Young Bok Kim | "HEBREW FORMS OF ADDRESS: A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS"
Dennis Pardee |
Faculty Fellow in Theology, School of Theology & Christian Ministry, Belmont University |
Isabel Lachenauer | "Art Wept: New Approaches to Reading Emotions in Dnismendnme"
Hakan Karateke |
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Sunwoo Lee | "Exploring Pain in Ancient Egypt"
Janet Johnson |
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Kyle Longworth | "ISLAMIC BUREAUCRATS IN LATE ANTIQUITY: ADMINISTRATION & ELITES DURING THE UMAYYAD CALIPHATE (CA. 661-750 C.E.) "
Fred Donner |
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the College, The University of Chicago |
Rao Mohsin Ali Noor | "Contending With Crisis: Sacred Bodies and the Ottoman Quest for order in the long 17th century "
Hakan Karateke |
Assistant Professor of Early Modern Ottoman History at Johns Hopkins University, |
Michael Peddycoart | "LIBERATION AS REVOLUTIONARY THEORY AND PRAXIS: THE POPULAR FRONT FOR THE LIBERATION OF PALESTINE AND THE NEW PALESTINIAN LEFT, 1967-1976"
Orit Bashkin |
Associate, Product Analyst , KPMG |
Doren Snoek | "Social Memory, Scribalism, and the Book of Chronicles"
Dennis Pardee |
Teaching Fellow in the Divinity School, The University of Chicago |
Kyle Wynter-Stoner | "THE MAḤMŪDĪYAH: THE HISTORY OF A LIBRARY, ITS BOOKS, AND ITS READERS"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Michael J. Bechtel | "From Collective Sovereignty to Autocracy: the Evolution of the Mongol Empire, 1227-1251"
John Woods |
Instructor, Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Nazarbayev University |
Andrew Burlingame | "Ugaritic Indefinite Pronouns: Linguistic, Social, and Textual Perspectives"
Dennis Pardee |
Assistant Professor of Hebrew, Wheaton College |
Ekin Enacar | "We Laugh at Our Misery: Political Satire, Censorship, and Opposition in the Ottoman Empire (1908-1911)"
Holly Shissler |
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Carol Fan | "The Great Mongol Empire: Fragmentation, Unity, and Continuity (1206–C.1300)"
John Woods |
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the College, The University of Chicago |
Samuel Harris | "Public Works and Private Work on the Threshold of Complexity: The Production & Use of Space at Late Chalcolithic 1 Tell Surezha, Iraq"
Gil Stein |
Visiting Instructor, Cornerstone Liberal Arts Program, Purdue University |
Tynan Kelly | "Prophetic Eloquence as Linguistic Precedent: Arabic and the Philology of the Hadith in the 2nd/8th Century"
Tahera Qutbuddin |
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the College, The University of Chicago |
Tynan Kelly | "PROPHETIC ELOQUENCE AS LINGUISTIC PRECEDENT: ARABIC AND THE PHILOLOGY OF ḤADĪTH IN THE 2ND/8TH CENTURY "
Tahera Qutbuddin |
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Rhyne King | "The House of the Satrap and the Making of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 522-330 BCE"
Richard Payne & Wouter Henkelman |
Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World , New York University |
Chelsie May | "Watching Whiteness Work: The Racialization of Jewish Women in Iraq and Israel/Palestine"
Orit Bashkin |
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the College, The University of Chicago |
Mohammad Sagha | "Hidden Empires: Revolt, Leadership, and Underground Networks in the Emergence of Early Shiʿi Muslim Sectarian Identities"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Lecturer in Modern Middle East, Harvard Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. |
Akiva Sanders | "Confrontation and Innovation Between Highland and Lowland: the Upper Euphrates Region in the Early Third Millennium BCE"
James Osborne |
Dan David Fellow in the Study of the Past , Tel Aviv University (2022-2024) |
Hongwei Zhang | "When They Change the Way They Speak: Contact-Induced Word Order Shifts in Semitic"
Rebecca Hasselbach |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Theodore Beers | "The Lives of Sām Mīrzā (923–75/1517–67): Dynastic Strife and Literary World-Building in Early Safavid Iran"
Franklin Lewis |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Freie Universität Berlin |
Joshua Cannon | "Painted Ceramic Traditions and Rural Communities in Hittite Anatolia"
Gil Stein |
Scholar-Mentor, Honors College, University of Pittsburgh |
Brendan Hainline | "Linguistic Variation in the Pyramid Texts"
Brian Muhs |
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and in the College, The University of Chicago |
Ami Huang | "State, Province, and Temple in Kassite Nippur: A Case Study of the Livestock Economy of the EREŠ.DINGIR Priestesses"
Susanne Paulus |
Systems Engineer, McMaster-Carr |
Michael Johnson | "Crafting Culture at Alalakh: Tell Atchana and the Political Economy of Metallurgy"
James Osborne |
Cultural Resources GIS Specialist, Stell Environmental Enterprises |
Anthony Lauricella | "Reuse to Ruin: The Persistence of the Umayyad Built Landscape"
Donald Whitcomb & Fred Donner |
Acting Director, Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes, The Oriental Institute |
Robert Marineau | "The Literary Effects of Discourse Patterns in Hittite Texts"
Petra Goedegebuure |
Teaching Fellow in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and in the College, The University of Chicago |
Pelle Valentin Olsen | "Between Work and School: Leisure and Modernity in Hashemite Baghdad, 1921-1958"
Orit Bashkin |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Roskilde University, Denmark |
Kara A. Peruccio | "Women on the Verge: Emotions, Authoritarianism, and the Novel in Italy and Turkey, 1922-1936"
Holly Shissler |
Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and History, University of Maine |
Nicholas Polk | "Deuteronomy and Treaty Texts: A Critical Reexamination of Deuteronomy 13, 17, 27, and 28"
Dennis Pardee |
Senior Administrative Analyst, Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) |
August Samie | "The Shibanid Question: Reassessing 16th-Century Eurasian History in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan"
John Woods |
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Oren Siegel | "Walls of the Rulers: The Development of Monumental Enclosure Walls in Ancient Egypt Prior to the New Kingdom "
Nadine Moeller |
Postdoctoral researcher and digital specialist, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Sciences |
Sami Sweis | "Hashemite Household Anxieties: The Amirate of Mecca, Arabism, and the Arab Revolt (1880-1919)"
Orit Baskin |
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Centre College |
Amir Toft | "Revaluing the Price of Blood: Homicide in Islamic Jurisprudence and Ottoman Law"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Associate Chaplain of the University for the Muslim Community, Brown University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Toygun Altintas | " Crisis and (Dis)Order: Armenian Revolutionaries and the Hamidian Regime in the Ottoman Empire, 1887-1896"
Holly Shissler |
EUME Fellow, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |
Shiraz Hajiani | "Reconstructing Alamut: New Approaches to the Study of the Qiyāma and the Nizari Polity in Iran"
John Woods |
Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Studies - Harvard University, Research Associate in Transcendence and Transformation, Center for the Study of World Religions and Lecturer in Islamic Studies, Harvard Divinity School |
Samuel Hodgkin | "Lāhūtī: Persian Poetry in the Making of the Literary International, 1906-1957"
Franklin Lewis |
Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University |
Charles Huff | "Punishment in the Priestly Literature"
Dennis Pardee |
Assistant Professor of Sacred Scripture, St. Bernard's School of Theology and Ministry |
N. Ipek Huner Cora | "'The Story Has It:' Prose, Gender, and Space in the Early Modern Ottoman World"
Hakan Karateke |
Assistant Professor, Department of Turkish Language and Literature, Boğaziçi University |
Jane Mikkelson | "Worlds of the Imagination: Bīdel of Delhi (d.1720) and Early Modern Persian Lyric Style"
Franklin Lewis & Muzaffar Alam |
Lecturer and Associate Research Scholar, Department of Comparative Literature and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Yale University |
Madadh Richey | " Visions of Gods and Monsters: Levantine and Mesopotamian Iconographies of Divine Combat and their Textual Impressions"
Dennis Pardee |
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, Brandeis University |
Claire Roosien | "Socialism Mediated: The Soviet Mass Public in Uzbekistan, 1928-37"
Holly Shissler |
Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Yale University |
Rachel Schine | "On Blackness in Arabic Popular Literature: The Black Heroes of the Siyar Sha‘biyya, Their Conceptions, Contests, and Contexts"
Tahera Qutbuddin |
Assistant Professor in Arabic and Religious Studies, University of Maryland |
Mariam Sheibani | " Islamic Law in an Age of Crisis and Consolidation: ‘Izz al-Dīn Ibn ‘Abd al-Salām (577-660/1187-1262) and the Ethical Turn in Medieval Islamic Law"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Toronto, Scarborough |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Laith Al-Saud | "Reading a Radical Thinker: A Study of Sayyid Qutb"
Orit Bashkin |
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Ercüment Asil | " The Pursuit of the Modern Mind: Popularization of Science, the Development of the Middle Classes, and Religious Transformation in the Ottoman Empire, 1860-1880"
Holly Shissler |
Lecturer, Alliance of Civilizations Institute , Ibn Haldun University |
Kevin Blankinship | "Thresholds of Doubt: Negotiating Authorship in the Paratexts of al-Maʿarrī"
Tahera Qutbuddin |
Assistant Professor of Arabic Language and Literature , Brigham Young University |
Mary Buck | "The Amorite Dynasty of Ugarit: The Historical Origins of the Bronze Age Polity of Ugarit Based upon Linguistic, Literary, and Archaeological Evidence"
Dennis Pardee |
Data Protection, McKinsey & Company |
Madeleine Elfenbein | "No Empire for Old Men: The Young Ottomans and the World, 1856-1878"
Holly Shissler |
Early Career Fellow , Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Göttingen Institute for Advanced Study |
Annie Greene | "Provincial, Not Peripheral: Ottoman-Iraqi Intellectuals and Cultural Networks, 1863-1914"
Orit Bashkin |
Fellow, The Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
Soloman Hassan | " By the Moon: The Calendar in Imāmī Law"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Founder & President, Ahl al-Bayt Islamic Seminary |
Brittany Hayden | " Price Formation and Fluctuation in Ptolemaic Egypt"
Brian Muhs |
Senior Business Partner, Microsoft |
Tytus Mikolajczak | "The Accounting Texts and Seals in the Persepolis Fortification Archive"
Matthew Stolper |
Assistant Professor, History, Adam Mickiewicz University |
Jessica Mutter | "By the Book: Conversion and Religious Identity in Early Islamic Bilād al-Shām and al-Jazīra"
Fred Donner |
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Religion, Bowdoin College |
Julio Rivera | " Syria at the United Nations, 1945-1955: The Struggle for Sovereignty and Territorial Claims in Palestine"
Orit Bashkin |
Director of Research Operations, Yaqeen Institute |
Carl Shook | "The Origins and Development of Iraq’s National Boundaries, 1918-1932: Policing and Political Geography in the Iraq-Nejd and Iraq-Syria Borderlands"
Orit Bashkin |
Lecturer, Loyola University Chicago |
Stephen Sumner | "The Curses in the Psalms and Levantine Inscriptions"
Dennis Pardee |
Professor of Old Testament Mission, Missional University |
Jonathan Winnerman | " Rethinking the Royal Ka"
Robert Ritner |
Lecturer in Egyptology, UCLA |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Natasha Ayers | "Cultural Change in Upper Egypt from the late Middle Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period: A New Analysis of the Ceramic Material"
Nadine Moeller |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences |
Harry Bastermajian | "Emergence of the Global Armenian in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul: Eastern and Western Perspectives"
Orit Bashkin |
Executive Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University |
James Burgin | "Aspects of Religious Administration in the Late New Hittite Kingdom"
Theo van den Hout |
Postdoctoral Fellow, Universität Würzburg |
Megan Clark | "Kurdish Linguistic Disobedience in Turkey"
Holly Shissler |
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Suleyman Dost | "An Arabian Qur’ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor of Late Antiquity and Early Islam, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto, Scarborough |
Michael Fisher | "The Late Chalcolithic 1 Period in Northern Mesopotamia: Tell Zeidan, Syria, in Regional Context"
Gil Stein |
Group Leader of Digital Archaeology, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology |
Emin Lelic | "Ottoman Physiognomy (ʿilm-i firâset): A Window into the Soul of an Empire"
Cornell Fleischer |
Assistant Professor of History, Salisbury University |
Megaera Lorenz | "The Role of Male Royal Offspring in 18th Dynasty Egypt"
Janet Johnson |
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Austin O'Malley | "Poetry and Pedagogy: The Homiletic Verse of Farid al-Din ʿAṭṭâr"
Franklin Lewis |
Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian and Iranian Studies, University of Arizona |
William Pickut | "Literary Genres in Poetic Texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls"
Norman Golb |
Proposal Manager, Hinduja Global Solutions |
Lindsey Weglarz | "Continuity and Change: A Reevaluation of Cultural Identity and "Egyptianization" in Lower Nubia during the New Kingdom "
Nadine Moeller |
Assistant Dean of Students for Admissions, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Mehmetcan Akpinar | "Narrative Representations of Abū Bakr (d. 634) in the 2nd/8th Century"
Wadad Kadi |
Research and Teaching Associate, Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies, University of Tübingen |
Solange Ashby | "Calling Out to Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae"
Janet Johnson |
President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA |
Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer | "The Exploitation of Avian Resources in Ancient Egypt: A Socio-Economic Study"
Janet Johnson |
Adjunct Lecturer in Anthropology at the College of Brockport, SUNY & Curator, Morgan-Manning House |
Yasar Tolga Cora | "Transforming Erzurum/Karin: The Social and Economic History of A Multi-Ethnic Ottoman City in The Nineteenth Century"
Holly Shissler |
Assistant Professor, History Department, Boğaziçi University |
Ferenc Csirkes | "Chaghatay Oration, Ottoman Eloquence, Qizilbash Rhetoric: Turkic Literature in Ṣafavid Persia"
Cornell Fleischer |
Assistant Professor of History, Sabanci University, Turkey |
Paul Gauthier | "Temple and State in Middle Assyrian Bureaucracy"
Walter Farber |
Software Developer, McMaster-Carr Supply Company |
Pascal Held | "The Hanbali School and Mysticism in Sixth/Twelfth Century Baghdad"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Assistant Professor, Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations, The American University in Cairo |
Eric Jobe | "Innovation in Post-Biblical Hebrew Poetry: A Stylistic Analysis of Qumran, Hekhalot, and Payyetanic Poetry"
Norman Golb |
Instructor of Bible and Biblical Languages, St. Macrina Orthodox Institute |
Joshua Mabra | "The Almost Caliph: Reconstructing the Political Life of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz ibn Marwān (D. 86/705)"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Modern Languages, Wright State University |
Elise MacArthur | "Negotiating Identity in Middle Kingdom Egypt"
Nadine Moeller |
Senior Project Manager, GLTaC, Inc. |
Hannah Marcuson | "The Hittite Munus ŠU.GI, or “Old Woman”"
Theo van den Hout |
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Nathaniel Miller | "Tribal Poetics in Early Arabic Poetry: The Case of Ashʿār Banī Hudhayl"
Tahera Qutbuddin, |
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge |
Ahmet Tunç Sen | "Astrology in the Service of the Empire: Knowledge, Prognostication, and Politics at the Ottoman Court, 1450s––1550s"
Cornell Fleischer |
Assistant Professor of Ottoman History, History Department, Columbia University |
Oya Topcuoglu | "Emblems of Power: Ideology and Identity in Late Old Assyrian Glyptic"
McGuire Gibson |
Lecturer, Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern University |
Monique Vincent | "Households, Communities, and Dimensions of Social Identity in the Early Iron Age at Tall al-‘Umayri"
David Schloen |
Assistant Professor of History, Walla Walla University |
Liran Yadgar | "'All the Kings of Arabia are Seeking Your Counsel and Advice': Intellectual and Cultural Exchange between Jews and Muslims in the Later Middle Islamic Period"
Franklin Lewis |
Lecturer in Modern Hebrew, Muhlenberg College |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Rodrigo Adem | "The Sources for an Intellectual Biography of Ibn Taymīya"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Assistant Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies , Georgetown University |
Sabahat Adil | "An Itinerant Scholar: The Life, Work, and World of al-Maqqarī (d. 1631/2 CE)"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado-Boulder |
Muhammet Atcil | "State and Government in the Mid-Sixteenth Century Ottoman Empire: The Grand Vizierates of Rustem Pasha (1544-1561)"
Cornell Fleischer |
Assistant Professor of Ottoman History, Istanbul Medeniyet University |
Drayton Benner | "The Sounds of the Psalter"
Dennis Pardee |
President, Miklal Software Solutions & Staff Software Engineer, Google |
Cameron Cross | "The Poetics of Romantic Love in Vis & Rāmin"
Franklin Lewis |
Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies, University of Michigan |
Cihangir Gundogdu | "Are There No Asylums? The Ottoman State and the Insane, 1856-1908"
Holly Shissler |
Lecturer, History, Bilgi University (Istanbul) |
Edmund Hayes | "The Envoys of the Hidden imam: Religious Institutions and the Politics of the Twelver Occultation Doctrine"
Franklin Lewis |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Leiden University Institute for Area Studies |
Michael Jennings | "Beyond the Walls of Jericho: Khirbet al-Mafjar and the Signature Landscapes of the Jericho Plain"
Donald Whitcomb & Fred Donner |
Director of Field Data, Center for Digital Archaeology |
Christopher Markiewicz | "The Crisis of Rule in Late Medieval Islam: A Study of Idris Bidlisi (1457-1520) and Governance at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century"
Cornell Fleischer |
Lecturer in Ottoman History, University of Birmingham |
Nathan Mastnjak | "The Prophet Who Was before Me: Allusions to Deuteronomy in the Book of Jeremiah"
Dennis Pardee |
Professor of Sacred Scripture, Notre Dame Seminary, Graduate School Of Theology, New Orleans |
Matthew McAffee | "Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical, Literary, and Comparative Analysis"
Dennis Pardee |
Provost & Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages, Welch College |
Tate Paulette | "Grain storage and the moral economy in Mesopotamia (3000–2000 BC)"
McGuire Gibson |
Associate Professor, Department of History, North Carolina State University |
Susan Penacho | "Deciphering Sealing Practices at Uronarti and Askut: A Spatial Analysis of the Built Environment and Individual Sealers"
Nadine Moeller |
Project Manager for ASOR CHI Geospatial Initiatives, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley |
Stephanie Selover | "Excavating War: The Archaeology of Warfare in Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Anantolia And the Effects of War on the Rise of Complex Societies"
Gil Stein |
Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington |
Esra Tasdelen | "Nationalism in Serial Fiction: The Cases of Ahmet Hikmet Müftüoğlu and Jurjī Zaydān"
Holly Shissler |
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, North Central College |
Jacqueline Vayntrub | "Proverbs and the Limits of Poetry"
Dennis Pardee |
Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, Yale Divinity School, Yale University |
G. Yazicioglu | "People of Kanesh: Residential Mobility, Community Life, and Cultural Pluralism in a Bronze Age City in Anatolia, Turkey"
Aslihan Yener |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Brad Bowman | "The Status of Christian Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Louisville |
Samuel Boyd | "Contact and Context: Studies in Language Contact and Literary Strata in the Hebrew Bible"
Dennis Pardee |
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado-Boulder |
David Calabro | "Ritual Gestures of Lifting, Extending, and Clasping the Hand(s) in Northwest Semitic Literature and Iconography"
Dennis Pardee |
Visiting Assistant Professor of Ancient Scripture, Brigham Young University |
Garrett Davidson | "Carrying on the Tradition: An Intellectual and Social History of Post-Canonical Sunni Hadith Transmission"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, College of Charleston |
Virginia Emery | "The House of Rejoicing: Malqata as the Festival Palace of Amenhotep III"
Janet Johnson |
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Western Heritage , Carthage College |
Humphrey Hardy | "Diachronic Development in Biblical Hebrew Prepositions: A Case Study in Grammaticalization"
Dennis Pardee |
Associate Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary |
Kaveh Hemmat | "A Chinese System for an Ottoman State: the Frontier, the Millennium, and Ming Bureaucracy in Khatayi's Book of China"
John Woods |
Assistant Professor, Professional Faculty, Department of History, Philosophy, and Theology, Benedictine University |
Daniel Mahoney | "The Political Landscape of the Dhamar Plain in the Central Highlands of Yemen during the Late Medieval and Early Ottoman Periods"
McGuire Gibson |
Postdoctoral Researcher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Social Anthropology |
Amin Sadr | "Love, Death, and Submission: The Role of the Reader in Rumi's Masnavi "
Franklin Lewis |
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Feryal Salem | "'Abd Allah b. al-Mubarak Between Hadith, Jihad, and Zuhd: An Expression of Early Sunni Identity in the Formative Period"
Fred Donner |
Associate Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Director of the Master of Divinity in Islamic Studies and Muslim Chaplaincy Program , American Islamic College |
Foy Scalf | "Passports to Eternity: Formulaic Demotic Funerary Texts and the Final Phase of Egyptian Funerary Literature in Roman Egypt"
Robert Ritner |
Head of Research Archives, The Oriental Institute |
Randy Shonkwiler | "The Behdetite: A Study of Horus the Behdetite from the Old Kingdom to the Conquest of Alexander"
Peter Dorman |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Lyall Armstrong | "The Qussas of the Umayyad Caliphate: Religious and Political Discourse in Early Islam"
Wadad Kadi |
Assistant Professor of Islamic History, American University of Beirut |
Kamal Badreshany | "The Social and Economic Impact of Urbanization in the Lebanon: Changes in Settlement Patterns and Craft Production from the Proto-Urban (Chacolithic/EB1) Period to the First Urban Period (EB II-III)"
David Schloen |
Director of the Durham Archaeomaterials Research Centre, Durham University |
Aaron Butts | "Language Maintenance, Lexical Borrowing, and Grammatical Replication: The Case of Greek and Syriac "
Rebecca Hasselbach |
Assistant Professor of Semitic Languages and Literatures, Catholic University of America |
Kathryn Grossman | "Early Bronze Age Hamoukar, Syria: A Settlement Biography"
Gil Stein |
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University |
Hani Khafipour | "Funding State Religion: The Dissemination of Shi'i Education through Safavid Pious Endowment"
John Woods |
Lecturer, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, University of Southern California |
Eve Krakowski | "Female Adolescence in the Cairo Geniza Documents "
Norman Golb |
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies and the Program in Judaic Studies, Princeton University |
Rana Mikati | "The Creation of Early Islamic Beirut: The Sea, Scholars, Jihad and the Sacred"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor of History, College of Charleston |
James Tallon | "The Failure of Ottomanism: The Albanian Rebellions of 1909-1912"
Holly Shissler |
Associate Professor of History, Lewis University |
Benjamin Thomas | "Divinity, Prophecy, and the Remembrance of Things Past: Prophetic Historical Writing in the Books of Kings and the Theory of the Deuteronomistic History"
Dennis Pardee |
Research Associate, The Oriental Institute |
Tanya Treptow | "Archaeology and the Construction of Islamic Heritage in Egypt"
Donald Whitcomb & Fred Donner |
Vice President & Co-Director of Research, Slover Linett Audience Research Inc. |
Joseph Yackley | "Bankrupt: Financial Diplomacy in the Late Nineteenth-Century Middle East"
Holly Shissler |
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Catherine Bronson | "Imagining the Primal Woman: Islamic Selves of Eve"
Wadad Kadi |
Assistant Teaching Professor, Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Notre Dame |
Mayte Green-Mercado | "Morisco Apocalypticism: Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
Cornell Fleischer |
Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark |
Katharyn Hanson | "Considerations of Cultural Heritage: Threats to Mesopotamian Archaeological Sites"
McGuire Gibson |
Executive Director , The Academic Research Institute in Iraq (TARII) |
Tobin Hartnell | "A Historical Reconstruction of the Ancient Economy in the Kur River Basin, Fars Province, Iran: A Regional Landscape Study"
McGuire Gibson |
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences & Director, Center for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, American University of Iraq |
Choukri Heddouchi | "For a Darislamic Archaeology: Egypt and West Africa and the Limits of Islamic Archaeology"
Fred Donner & Donald Whitcomb |
Chair, Department of Arabic, Darul Qasim |
Joseph Lam | "The Metaphorical Patterning of the Sin- Concept in Biblical Hebrew"
Dennis Pardee |
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Volkan Stodolsky | "A New Historical Model and Periodization for the Perception of the Sunnah of the Prophet and His Companions"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor, School of Islamic Studies , Ibn Haldun University |
Elizabeth Urban | "The Early Islamic Mawālī: A Window onto Processes of Identity Construction and Social Change"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor of History, West Chester University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Vanessa Davies | "The Dynamics of Hetep in Ancient Egypt"
Janet Johnson |
Assoc. Dir. Institutional Grants & Research Grants Compliance Manager, Bryn Mawr College |
Emran El-Badawi | "Sectarian Scripture: The Qur'an's Dogmatic Rearticulation of the Aramaic Gospel Traditions in the Late Antique Near East"
Fred Donner |
Associate Professor & Program Director of Middle Eastern Studies, Chair, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston |
Abdurrahman Atcil | "The Formation of the Ottoman Learned Class and Legal Scholarship (1300-1600)"
Cornell Fleischer |
Assistant Professor of Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Queens College, City University New York |
John Burnight | "Reversal and Response in Job 3-5"
Dennis Pardee |
Associate Professor of Religion, University of Northern Iowa |
Virginia Herrmann | "Society and Economy under Empire at Iron Age Sam’al (Zincirli Höyük, Turkey)"
David Schloen |
Junior Research Group Leader, Institute for Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Tübingen |
Rasheed Hosein | "Tribal Alliance Formations and Power Structures in the Jahiliyah and Early Islamic Periods: Quraysh and Thaqif (530-750 CE)"
Fred Donner |
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Leann Pace | "A Comparison of Cooking and Serving Wares in Late EB III, EBIV/MB I and MB IIA Syria-Palestine"
David Schloen |
Assistant Teaching Professor, Department for the Study of Religions, Wake Forest University |
Miller Prosser | "Bunušu in Ugaritian Society"
Dennis Pardee |
Research Database Specialist, The OCHRE Data Service, The Oriental Institute |
Jennifer Westerfeld | "Landscapes of Memory: Pharaonic Sacred Space in the Coptic Imagination"
Janet Johnson |
Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History, University of Louisville |
Malayna Williams | "Signs of Creation: Sex, Gender, Categories, Religion and the Body in Ancient Egypt"
Janet Johnson |
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, PWR New Media |
Metin Yüksel | "Dengbej, Mullah, Intelligentsia: The Survival and Revival of the Kurdish-Kurmanji Language in the Middle East, 1925-1960"
Holly Shissler |
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Hacettepe University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Maurice Pomerantz | "Licit Magic and Divine Grace: The Life and Letters of al-Sāhib ibn ‘Abbād (D. 385/995)"
Wadad Kadi |
Associate Professor of Literature, New York University Abu Dhabi |
Glenn Corbett | "Mapping the Mute Immortals: A Locational and Contextual Analysis of Thamudic E/Hismaic Inscriptions and Rock Drawings from the Wadi Hafir of Southern Jordan"
David Schloen |
Program Director, Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC) |
Adrian De Gifis | "The Depictions of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib in the Works of al-Jahiz"
Wadad Kadi |
Director Clinical Community Campus Student Programs, Michigan State University |
Koowon Kim | "Incubation As a Type- Scene in the Aqhatu, Kirta, and Hannah Stories: Form-Critical and Narratological Study of KTU 1.41 I-1.15 III, 1.17 I-II, and I Samuel 1:1-2:11"
Dennis Pardee |
Associate Professor in Old Testament, Reformed Graduate University in Seoul |
Adam Miglio | "Solidarity and Political Authority During the Reign of Zimri-Lim (c. 1775-1762 B.C.)"
David Schloen & Seth Richardson |
Associate Professor of Archaeology, Wheaton College |
John Nolan | "Mud Sealings and Fourth Dynasty Administration at Giza"
Robert Ritner |
Associate Director, Ancient Egypt Research Associates |
Edward Stratford | "Agents, Archives, and Risk: A Micronarrative Account of Old Assyrian Trade through Å alimahum’s Activities in 1890 B.C."
Martha Roth |
Associate Professor, History Department, Brigham Young University |
Joshua Trampier | "The Dynamic Landscape of the Western Nile Delta from the New Kingdom to the Late Roman Periods"
Nadine Moeller |
Visiting Scientist, Oak Ridge Associated Universities |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Sean Anthony | "The Caliph and the Heretic: Ibn Saba’, the Saba’iyya and Early Shi’ism Between Myth and History"
Wadad Kadi |
Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Ohio State University |
Ilker Binbas | "Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi (ca. 770s-858/ca. 1370s- 1454): Prophecy, Politics, and Historiography in Late Medieval Islamic History"
John Woods |
Institute of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of Bonn |
Elena Corbett | "Jordan First: A History of the Intellectual and Political Economy of Jordanian Antiquity"
Holly Shissler |
Center Director, CIEE Study Center, Amman, Jordan |
Jacqueline Jay | "From Sinuhe to Setna: The Narrative Structure of Ancient Egyptian Tales"
Janet Johnson |
Professor, and Interim Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, Eastern Kentucky University |
Mark Luce | "Frontier As Process: Umayyad Khurāsān"
Wadad Kadi |
Iran/Arabian Peninsula Analyst, Cultural Intelligence Cell, U.S. Army Special Operations Command |
Aram Shahin | "Struggling for Communitas: Arabian Political Thought in the Great Century of Change (ca. 560 - ca. 660 AD)"
Wadad Kadi |
Associate Professor, Arabic, Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures & Cultures, James Madison University |
Jonathan Tenney | "Life at the Bottom of Babylonian Society: Servile Laborers at Nippur in the 14th and 13th Centuries BC"
John Brinkman |
Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell Unviersity |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Abdolmajid Arfaee | "The Geographical Background of the Persepolis Tablets"
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Alexander Asa Eger | "The Spaces Between the Teeth: Environment, Settlement, and Interaction on the Islamic-Byzantine Frontier"
Fred Donner & Donald Whitcomb |
Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Yuval Ben-Bassat | "Local Feuds or Premonitions of a Bi- National Conflict? A Reexamination of Early Jewish-Arab Encounters in Palestine, 1882-1903"
Holly Shissler |
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, University of Haifa |
Vanessa DeGifis | "Qur'anic Rhetoric in the Politics of al-Ma'mun's Caliphate"
Wadad Kadi |
Chair of Classical & Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies , Wayne State University |
Thomas Hefter | "“You Have Asked...”: The Addressee and the Absent Reader in the Works of Al-Jahiz"
Tahera Qutbuddin |
Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University |
J. Brett McClain | "Restoration Inscriptions and the Tradition of Monumental Restoration"
Peter Dorman |
Research Associate/Senior Epigrapher, Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute |
John Nielsen | "Sons and Descendants: A Social History of Kin Groups and Family Names in the Early Neo- Babylonian Period"
Matthew Stolper |
Assistant Professor of History, Bradley University |
Nükhet Varlık | "Disease and Empire: A History of Plague Epidemics in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire (1453-1600)"
Cornell Fleischer |
Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University-Newark and New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Justine Way | "From Privilege to Poverty: The LIfe-Cycle of Pyramid Settlements During the Old Kingdom"
McGuire Gibson |
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Ilya Yakubovich | "Sociolinguistics of the Luvian Language"
Theo van den Hout |
Leading Researcher, Russian State University for the Humanities |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Betul Basaran | "Remaking the Gate of Felicity: Policing, Migration and Social Control at the End of the Eighteenth Century"
Cornell Fleischer |
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, St. Mary's College of Maryland |
Daniel Belnap | "Fillets of Fatling and Goblets of Gold: The Use of Meal Events in the Ritual Imagery of the Ugaritic Mythological and Epic Texts"
Dennis Pardee |
Associate Professor, Ancient Scripture, Religious Education, Brigham Young University |
Katherine Burke | "Archaeological Texts and Contexts on the Red Sea: The Sheikh's House at Quseir al-Qadim"
Fred Donner & Donald Whitcomb |
Lecturer , Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures & Research Associate, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA |
Dennis Campbell | "Mood and Modality in Hurrian"
Theo van den Hout |
Associate Professor, History Department, San Francisco State University |
Louis Fishman | "Palestine Revisited: Reassessing the Jewish and Arab National Movements, 1908-1914"
Rashid Khalidi |
Assistant Professor of History, Brooklyn College |
Alyssa Gabbay | "The Language of Tolerance: Amīr Khusraw and the Development of Indo- Persian Culture"
Heshmat Moayyad |
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Nicole Hansen | "Motherhood in the Mother of the World: Continuity and Change of Reproductive Concepts and Practices in Egypt from Ancient to Modern Times"
Robert Ritner |
Faculty, Amideast |
Jacob Lauinger | "Archival Practices at Old Babylonian/Middle Bronze Age Alalakh (Level VII)"
Martha Roth |
Associate Professor, Assyriology, Johns Hopkins University |
Gabrielle Novacek | "'Barbarians from the North': Continuity and Change in Northern Palestine during the Early Bronze II-III (ca. 3100-2200 B.C.E.) in Light of the Khirbet Kerak Ware Phenomenon"
David Schloen |
Partner & Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group |
Ebru Turan | "The Sultan's Favorite: Ibrahim Pasa and the Making of the Ottoman Universal Sovereignty in the Reign of Sultan Suleyman (1516-1526)"
Cornell Fleischer |
Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University |
Patrick Wing | "The Jalayirids and Dynastic State Formation in the Medieval Islamic World"
John Woods |
Associate Professor of History, University of Redlands |
Sara Yildiz | "Mongol Rule in Thirteenth-Century Seljuk Anatolia: The Politics of Conquest and History Writing, 1243- 1282"
John Woods |
Research Fellow, School of History, University of St. Andrews |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Carrie Hritz | "Landscape and Settlement in Southern Mesopotamia: A Geoarchaeological Analysis"
McGuire Gibson |
Associate Director of Research, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center |
Jonathan Brown | "The Canonization of al- Bukhari and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunni Hadith Canon "
Wadad Kadi |
Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization, Associate Professor in the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University |
Snjezana Buzov | "The Lawgiver and His Lawmakers: The Role of Legal Discourse in the Change of Ottoman Imperial Culture"
Cornell Fleischer |
Affiliated Scholar, Ohio State University |
M. Pinar Emiralioglu | "Cognizance of the Ottoman World: Visual and Textual Representations in the Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Empire (1514- 1596)"
Cornell Fleischer |
Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University |
Kenneth Garden | "Al-Ghāzalī’s Contested Revival: Iḥyā’ ‘ulūm aldīn and its Critics in Khorasan and the Maghrib"
Wadad Kadi |
Associate Professor of Religion, Tufts University |
Harold Hays | "The Typological Structure of the Pyramid Texts and Its Continuities with Middle Kingdom Mortuary Literature"
Robert Ritner |
Lecturer of Egyptology, Leiden University |
Michael Kozuh | "The Sacrificial Economy: On the Management of Sacrificial Sheep and Goats at the Neo- Babylonian/Achaemenid Eanna Temple of Uruk (c. 625-520 BC)"
Matthew Stolper |
Associate Professor of History, Auburn University |
Maha Nassar | "Affirmation and Resistance: Press, Poetry and the Formation of National Identity among Palestinian Citizens of Israel, 1948-1967"
Rashid Khalidi |
Associate Professor, Modern Middle East History, Islamic Studies, University of Arizona |
Israel Sandman | "The Sacrificial Economy: On the Management of Sacrificial Sheep and Goats at the Neo- Babylonian/Achaemenid Eanna Temple of Uruk (c. 625-520 BC)"
Norman Golb |
Senior Research Associate Dept of Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London |
Michael Wechsler | "The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ‘Eli the Karaite on the Book of Esther: Edition, Translation, and Introduction"
Norman Golb |
Professor of Bible, Moody Bible Institute |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Blane Conklin | "Oath Formulae in Classical Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages"
Dennis Pardee |
Senior Business Analyst, University of Texas at Austin |
Francois Gaudard | "The Demotic Drama of Horus and Seth"
Janet Johnson |
Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago |
Sooyong Kim | "Minding the Shop: Zati and the Making of Ottoman Poetry in the First Half of the Sixteenth Century"
Robert Dankoff |
Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Comparative Literature, Koç University |
Hratch Papazian | "Domain of Pharaoh: The Structure and Components of the Economy of Old Kingdom Egypt"
Robert Ritner |
Herbert Thompson Associate Professor in Egyptology, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge |
Roschanack Shaery-Yazdi | "Constructing Lebanese Shiite Nationalism: Transnationalism, Shiism, and the Lebanese State"
Rashid Khalidi |
Associate Professor of the Modern Islamic World, Department of History, and Director of Center for Political History, University of Antwerp |
Fehrullah Terkan | "Recurrence of the Perennial Encounter? Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on God's Knowledge of Particulars"
Wadad Kadi |
Professor of Islamic Philosophy, Ankara University |
Jason Ur | "Urbanism and Society in the Third Millenium Upper Khabur Basin"
McGuire Gibson |
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Nabil Al-Tikriti | "Sehzade Korkud (ca. 1468–1513) and the Articulation of Early 16th-Century Ottoman Religious Identity"
Robert Dankoff |
Associate Professor, History and American Studies, University of Mary Washington |
Mark Altaweel | "The Land of Ashur: A Study of Landscape and Settlement in the Assyrian Heartland"
McGuire Gibson |
Reader in Near East Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London |
Aaron Burke | "The Architecture of Defense: Fortified Settlements of the Levant During the Middle Bronze Age"
David Schloen |
Professor of the Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Levant, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA |
Jesse Casana | "From Alalakh to Antioch: Settlement, Land Use, and Environmental Change in the Amuq Valley of Southern Turkey"
Ashlihan Yener |
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Darthmouth College |
Judith Pfeiffer | "Conversion to Islam among the Ilkhans in Muslim Narrative Traditions: The Case of Ahmad Tegüder"
John Woods |
Alexander von Humboldt Professor in Islamic Studies, University of Bonn |
Tasha Vorderstrasse | "A Port of Antioch Under Byzantium, Islam, and the Crusades: Acculturation and Differentiation at al- Mina: A.D. 350-1268"
Fred Donner & Donald Whitcomb |
Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Gavin Brockett | "Betwixt and Between: Turkish Print Culture and the Emergence of National Identity, 1945-1954 "
Rashid Khalidi |
Associate Professor, History and Religion and Culture, Wilfrid Laurier University |
Robert Hawley | "Studies in Ugaritic Epistolography"
Dennis Pardee |
Faculty, Section des Sciences Religieuses, École Pratique des Hautes Études |
Tracy Hoffman | "Ascalon 'Arus al-Sham: Domestic Architecture and the Development of Byzantine-Islamic City"
Fred Donner & Donald Whitcomb |
Supervisor and Ceramists Specialist, Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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David Cook | "The Beginnings of Islam in Umayyad Syria"
Fred Donner |
Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University |
Khaled Keshk | "The Depiction of Mu'awiya in the Early Islamic Sources"
Fred Donner |
Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, DePaul University |
Shari L. Lowin | "The Making of a Forefather: Abraham in Islamic and Jewish Exegetical Narratives"
Wadad Kadi |
Professor of Religious Studies, Stonehill College |
Scott Lucas | "The Art of Hadith Compilation and Criticism: A Study of the Emergence of Sunni Islam in the Third/Ninth Century"
Wadad Kadi |
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies, The University of Arizona |
Mark Jonathan Wegner | "Islamic Government: The Medieval Sunni Islamic Theory of the Caliphate and the Debate Over the Revival of the Caliphate in Egypt, 1924-1926"
Rashid Khalidi |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Anne Broadbridge | "Mamluk Ideological and Diplomatic Relations with Mongol and Turkic Rulers of the Near East and Central Asia (658-807/1260-1405)"
John Woods |
Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
Edward William Castle | "A Structural Study of Bronze Age Systems of Weight"
Edward Wente |
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Annie Higgins | "The Qur'anic Exchange of the Self in the Poetry of Shurat (Khariji) Political Identity 38-132 A.H./651-750 A.D."
Wadad Kadi |
Assistant Professor of Arabic Literature , Wayne State University |
Joshua David Holo | "An Economic History of the Jews of Byzantium, from the Eve of the Arab Conquest to the Fourth Crusade"
Norman Golb |
Dean & Associate Professor of Jewish History, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion |
Ali J. Hussain | "A Developmental Analysis of the Events of Karbala in Early Islamic History."
Fred Donner |
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Clemens Reichel | "Political Changes and Cultural Continuity in the Palace of the Rulers at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) from the Ur III Period to the Isin-Larsa Period (ca. 2070-1850 B.C.)"
McGuire Gibson |
Associate Curator of the Ancient Near East, the Royal Ontario Museum & Assistant Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology , University of Toronto |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Elizabeth Schiller Friedman | "Technological Style in Early Bronze Age Anatolia"
Ashlihan Yener |
Director, Professional Master's Programs and New Initiatives & Adjunct Professor of Anthropology, Dept. of Social Sciences, Illinois institute of Technology |
Paul Heck | "Qudama b. Jafar (d. 337/948) and his Kitab al-kharaj wa-sina'at al kitaba: Administrative Contributions to Knowledge"
Wadad Kadi |
Professor of Islamic Studies, Georgetown University |
Fumi Karahashi | "Sumerian Compound Verbs With Body Part Terms"
Miguel Civil |
Associate Professor of Ancient Oriental Studies, Faculty of Letters at Chuo University |
Ingrid M. Mattson | "A Believing Slave is Better than an Unbeliever: A Study of Social Stratification in Early Islamic Society"
Fred Donner |
London and Windsor Community Chair in Islamic Studies, Huron University College at Western University |
Alexandra Alice O’Brien | "Private Tradition, Public State: Women in Demotic Business and Administrative Texts from Ptolemaic and Roman Thebes."
Janet Johnson |
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Anne Margaret Porter | "Mortality, Monuements and Mobilitiy: Ancestor Traditions and the Transcendence of Space"
McGuire Gibson |
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Eric Reymond | "A Poetic Analysis of Ben Sira 40:11-44:17"
Dennis Pardee |
Senior Lector in Biblical Hebrew, Yale Divinity School |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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David Clemens | Adjunct Professor of Biblical Languages, Regent College | |
Timothy Joseph Collins | "Natural Illness in Babylonian Medical Incantations"
Walter Farber |
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Sunil Sharma | "Poetics of Court and Prison in the Divan of Mas'ud-e Sa'd"
Heshmat Moayyad |
Professor of Persianate & Comparative Literature, Boston University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Andrew John Baumann | "The Suffix Conjugation of early Egyptian as Evidenced in the Underworld Books"
Edward Wente |
Assistant Director (Editorial Production Manager), Health Administration Press |
Marianne Kamp | "Unveiling Uzbek Women: Reform, Liberation and Discourse in Central Asia: 1906-1929"
John Perry |
Associate Professor, Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University Bloomington |
Marion Holmes Katz | "Purified Companions: The Development of the Islamic Law of Ritual Purit"
Wadad Kadi |
Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University |
Katherine H. Lang | "Awâ?¦’il in Early Arabic Historiography: Beginnings and Identity in the Middle Abbasid Empire"
Wadad Kadi |
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |
Weldon C. Matthews III | "The Arab Istiqlal Party in Palestine"
Rashid Khalidi |
Associate Professor, Department of History, Oakland University |
Stuart Sears | "A Monetary History of Iraq and Iran, ca. CE 500 to 750"
Fred Donner |
Co-founder, Arabic Language Associates, LLC |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Paul M. Cobb | "White Banners: Contention in ‘Abbasid Syria, 750-877"
Fred Donner |
Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania |
Benjamin Fortna | "Education for the Empire: Ottoman State Secondary Schools during the Reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909)"
Rashid Khalidi |
Director & Professor, History of Modern Middle East and Ottoman Empire, University of Arizona |
Albert Paul Hardy | "Avicenna on Knowledge of the Self"
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Scholar, Kalam Research & Media |
Brigitte Treumann | "The Role of Wood in the Rise and Decline of the Phoenician Settlements on the Iberian Peninsula"
McGuire Gibson |
Owner, Resources 2000 |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Camron Michael Amin | "The Attentions of the Great Father: Rezâ?¦ Shâ?¦h, “The Woman Question,” and the Iranian Press, 1890-1946"
Rashid Khalidi |
Professor of History, University of Michigan-Dearborn |
Aḥmad Qodrī Azizy | "Ikhtilāf among Muslim Jurists : A Translation and Analysis of al-Ṭaḥāwī's Chapter on "Judiciary and Testimonies" in His Ikhtilāf al-Fuqahāʼ"
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Daniel Brown | "Rethinking Tradition: Modern Discussions of Sunna in Egypt and Pakistan"
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Director, Institute for the Study of Religion in the Middle East |
John C. Darnell | "The Enigmatic Netherworld Books of the Solar-Osirian Unity: Cryptographic Compositions in the Tombs of Tutankhamun, Ramesses VI, and Ramesses IX"
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Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Yale University |
Mohammad Hossam Fadel | "Adjudication in the Mālikī Madhhab : a Study of Legal Process in Medieval Islamic Law"
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Professor & former Canada Research Chair for the Law and Economics of Islamic Law (2006-16), Faculty of Law, University of Toronto |
Rachel S. Hallote | "Mortuary Practices and their Implications for Social Organization in the Middle Bronze Southern Levant "
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Professor of History, Purchase College SUNY |
R. Mulyadhi Kartanegara | "The Mukhtasar Siwan Al-Hikma of Umar B. Sahlan Al-Sawi: Arabic Text and Introduction"
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Associate Professor, Centre for Islamic Studies, Universitit Brunei Darussalam |
Peter Lacovara | "State and Settlement: Deir el-Ballas and the Development, Structure, and Function of the New Kingdom Royal City"
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Director, The Ancient Egyptian Heritage and Archaeology Fund |
Stephen T. Parker | "Nominal and Prospective Uses of the SDM F in the Coffin Texts"
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Douglas Penney | "Towards a Prehistory of Biblical Hebrew Roots: Phoneme Constraint and Polymorphism"
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Associate Professor of Classical Languages; Classical Languages Section Coordinator, Wheaton College |
Terry G. Wilfong | "'The Woman of Jême': Women's Roles in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt"
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Professor of Egyptology and Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, University of Michigan |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Stuart Creason | "Semantic Classes of Hebrew Verbs: A Study of Aktionsart in the Hebrew Verbal System"
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Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago |
Ahmet Hadi | "Dialectical Methodology and its Critique: Ghazali as a Case Study"
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Lecturer, Faculty of Theology, Ankara University |
Timothy P. Harrison | "Life On the Edge: Human Adaptation and Resilience in the Semi-arid Highlands of Central Jordan during the Early Bronze Age"
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Professor, Department of Near and ME Civilizations, University of Toronto |
Marlis J. Saleh | "Government Relations with the Coptic Community in Egypt during the Fāṭimid Period (358-567 A.H./969-1171 C.E.)"
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Bibliographer for Middle East Studies, University of Chicago Library |
David Douglas Testen | "Asseverative LA- in Arabic and related Semitic particles "
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Anthony J. Tomasino | "Daniel and the Revolutionaries: The Use of the Daniel Tradition by Jewish Resistance Movements of Late Second-Temple Palestine"
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Lead Pastor, Caro United Methodist Church |
Judith M. Wilks | "Aspects of the Köroğlu Destan: Chodźko and Beyond"
John Perry |
Instructor, Northwestern University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Elise Auerbach | "Terra Cotta Plaques from the Diyala and their Archaeological and Cultural Contexts"
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US Director of the American Institute of Indian Studies, Country Specialist for Iran and Jordan of Amnesty International USA |
Sejin Koh | "An Archaeological Investigation of the Snake Cult in the Southern Levant: The Chalcolithic Period through the Iron Age"
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Former President, Professor, Asian Center for Theological Studies & Missions |
Gary Long | "Simile, Metaphor, and the Song of Songs"
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Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies , Bethel University |
Paul E. Losensky | "'Welcoming Fighānī': Imitation, Influence, and Literary Change in the Persian Ghazal, 1480-1680"
Heshmat Moayyad |
Professor, Departments of Central Eurasian Studies and Comparative Literature, Indiana University Bloomington |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Clarissa C. Burt | "Parallelism in Jāhiliyya Poetry and the Northwest Semitic Connection"
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Associate Professor, Languages and Cultures Department, United States Naval Academy |
Richard L. Goerwitz | "Tiberian Hebrew Pausal Forms"
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Data Warehouse Architect, Carleton College |
Lisa Ann Heidorn | "The Fortress of Dorginarti and Lower Nubia during the Seventh to Fifth Centuries B.C."
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Research Associate, Oriental Institute Nubia Expedition |
Augusta McMahon | "The Early Dynastic Akkadian Transition in Southern Mesopotamia"
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Reader in Mesopotamian Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge |
Sholeh Alysia Quinn | "Historical Writing During the Reign of Shâh ʻAbbâs I"
John Woods |
Associate Professor of History, University of California Merced |
Brannon M. Wheeler | "Applying the Canon: The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Sunnī Fiqh Scholarship"
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Professor of History, United States Naval Academy |
Grace Kate-Sue White | "The Religious Iconography of Cappadocian Glyptic in the Assyrian Colony Period and its Significance in the Hittite New Kingdom "
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Peter Ross Bedford | "Temple and Community in Early Achaemenid Judah"
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John and Jane Wold Professor of Religious Studies, Union College |
Raymond Johnson | "An Asiatic Battle Scene of Tutankhamun from Thebes: A Late Amarna Antecedent of the Ramesside Battle-narrative Tradition "
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Research Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, Director of Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute |
Joseph Manning | "The Conveyance of Real Property in Upper Egypt during the Ptolemaic Period: A Study of the Hauswaldt Papyri and Other Related Demotic Instruments of Transfer"
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William K. & Marilyn Milton Simpson Professor of Classics & History; Senior Research Scholar, Law School, Yale University |
Cynthia Miller | "Reported Speech in Biblical and Epigraphic Hebrew"
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Senior Professor and Head of Department, University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa |
Peter Theodore Nash | "The Hebrew Qal Active Participle: A Non-aspectual Narrative Backgrounding Element"
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Professor, Wartburg College |
Ernest Shreeves Tucker IV | "Religion and Politics in the Era of Nâdir Shâh : The Views of Six Contemporary Sources"
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Professor of History of the Middle East, Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, United States Naval Academy |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Peter A. Piccione | "The Historical Development of the Game of Senet and its Significance for Egyptian Religion"
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Associate Professor of History, College of Charleston |
Yvonne J. Seng | "The Üsküdar Estates (Tereke) as Records of Everyday Life in an Ottoman Town"
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Emily Teeter | "The Presentation of Ma'at: The Iconography and Theology of an Ancient Egyptian Offering Ritual"
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Research Associate and Curator, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago |
Edward James Walker | "Aspects of the Primaeval Nature of Egyptian Kingship: Pharoah as Atum"
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Iftikhar Zaman | "The Evolution of a Hadith: Transmission, Growth and the Science of Rijal in a Hadith of Saʻd b. Abi Waqqas"
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Edward Brovarski | "The Inscribed Material of the First Intermediate Period from Naga-ed-Dêr"
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Adjunct Research Scholar, Department of Ar of the Ancient World, Boston Museum of Fine Arts |
Steven W. Cole | "Nippur in Late Assyrian Times, 750-612 B.C."
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Senior Lecturer in Classics and Assistant Dean for Faculty Evaluation, Northwestern University |
Peter der Manuelian | "Studies in Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty-Sixth Dynasty"
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Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology; Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum, Harvard University |
Ronald Lee Gorny | "Al ̧isar Höyük in the Second Millennium B.C."
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College Adviser, University of Chicago |
Gary S. Greig | "The Influence of the Semantic Categories of Egyptian Verbs of Perception and Cognition on Grammatical Structure in Late Egyptian"
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Vice President for Content, Bible and Theology, Gospel Light Publications / Regal Books |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Sabah Jasim Abdul-Amir | "Archaeological Survey of Ancient Settlements and Irrigation Systems in the Middle Euphrates Region of Mesopotamia "
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James Alan Armstrong | "The Archaeology of Nippur from the Decline of the Kassite Kingdom until the Rise of the Neo-Babylonian Empire"
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Antony Greenwood | "Istanbul's Meat Provisioning: A Study of the Celepkeşan System"
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Adjunct Faculty, Department of History, Boğaziçi University |
Richard Jasnow | "A Late Period Hieratic Wisdom Text: P. Brooklyn 47.218.135"
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Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Johns Hopkins University |
Carol Ann Redmount | "On an Egyptian/Asiatic Forntier: An Archaeological History of the Wadi Tumilat"
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Professor of Near Eastern Studies, University of California Berkeley |
Raymond D. Tindel | "The History and Culture of Ẓafār"
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Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago |
Bruce Theo Verhaaren | "Architecture and Archaeological Analysis: Between the Early and Middle Bronze Ages at Kurban Höyük, Turkey"
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Assistant Environmental Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Abbas Alizadeh | "Mobile Pastoralism and the Development of Complex Societies in Highland Iran: The Evidence from Tall-i-Bakun A"
Helene Kantor |
Senior Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago |
Lorelei Corcoran | "Portrait Mummies from Roman Egypt"
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Director, Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Memphis |
John C. Eisele | "The Syntax and Semantics of Tense, Aspect and Time Reference in Cairene Arabic"
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Arabic Studies Program Director, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies, College of William & Mary |
Scott C. Layton | "Archaic Features of Canaanite Personal Names in the Hebrew Bible"
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John Gregory McMahon | "The Hittite State Cult of the Tutelary Deities"
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Associate Professor of Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies Linguistics, University of New Hampshire |
Wan Mohd Nor Wan Daud | "The Concept of Knowledge in Islam and its Implications on the National System of Education in the Malaysian Context"
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Director/Founder of Center for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation (CASIS),, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia |
Jo Ann Scurlock | "Magical Means of Dealing with Ghosts in Ancient Mesopotamia"
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Adjunct Full Professor, History Department, Elmhurst College |
Michael Owen Wise | "The Temple Scroll: Its Composition, Date, Purpose and Provenance"
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Scholar-in-Residence, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Languages, University of Northwestern, St. Paul |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Guillermo Algaze | "Mesopotamian Expansion and its Consequences: Informal Empire in the Late 4th Millenium B.C."
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC San Diego |
Richard Beal | "The Organization of the Hittite Military"
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Senior Research Associate, Chicago Hittite Dictionary, Oriental Institute |
Gillian R. Bentley | "Kinship and Social Structure at Early Bronze IA Bab edh-Dhra', Jordan: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of the Mortuary and Dental Data"
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, Durham University |
Mustafa Cerić | "A Study of the Theology of Abu Mansur al-Maturidi: (ca. 235/850-944)"
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President, World Bosniac Congress |
John D. Currid | "Archaeological Investigations into the Grain Storage Practices of Iron Age Palestine"
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Chancellor's Professor of Old Testament , Reformed Theological Seminary |
Aḥmad Zakī Mansūr Ḥammād | "Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī's Juristic Doctrine in al- Mustaṣfá min ʻilm aluṣūl: With a Translation of Volume One of al- Mustaṣfá min ʻilm aluṣūl"
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Thomas Emil Homerin | "Filled with a Burning Desire: Ibn al-Fāriḍ, Poet, Mystic, and Saint"
Jaroslav Stetkevych |
Professor of Religion, University of Rochester |
Robert Ritner | "The Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice"
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Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute |
Robert Schick | "The Fate of the Christians in Palestine during the Byzantine-Umayyad Transition, A.D. 600-750"
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Research Associate, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz |
Samuel Richard Wolff | "Maritime Trade at Punic Carthage"
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Excavations, Surveys & Research Department, Israeli Antiquities Authority |
Yang Zhi | "A Study of the Sargonic Archive from Adab"
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Professor Emeritus, Institute for the the History of Ancient Civilizations at Northeast Normal University, China |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Peter Dorman | "The Monuments of Senenmut: Problems in Historical Methodology"
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Professor Emeritus of Egyptology, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute, Professor of History and Archaeology, President, American University of Beirut, American University of Beirut |
Joseph A. Greene | "The Carthaginian Countryside: Archaeological Reconnaissance in the Hinterland of Ancient Carthage"
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Deputy Director and Curator, Harvard Semitic Museum |
Valerie J. Hoffman | "The Religious Life of Muslim Women in Contemporary Egypt"
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Professor of Islamic Studies, Department of Religion, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign |
Masataka Takeshita | "Ibn ʻArabi's theory of the perfect man and its place in the history of Islamic thought"
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Tokyo |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Sandra Landis Gogel | "A Grammar of Old Hebrew"
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President and Founder, La Source Parisienne, Antique Consultancy and Excursion Company |
Russell George Kempiners Jr. | "The Struggle for Khurâsân: Aspects of Political, Military and Socio-economic Interaction in the Early 8th/14th Century"
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Ann Macy Roth | "Egyptian Phyles of the Old Kingdom"
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Clinical Associate Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies and Art History, New York University |
Elizabeth Jane Sherman | "Nonclassical Orthographic Features of Late Period Hieroglyphic Egyptian: 400 to 280 B.C."
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Eugene Cruz-Uribe | "Saite and Persian Demotic Cattle Documents and their Use in the Legal System in Ancient Egypt"
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Professor of History, Indiana University East |
Nurcholish Madjid | "Ibn Taymiyya on Kalām and Falsafa: A Problem of Reason and Revelation in Islam"
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Rector, Paramadina University, Indonesia |
Richard L. Zettler | "The Ur III Inanna Temple at Nippur"
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Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Alparslan Açıkgenç | "The Concept of Existence in Ṣadrā and Heidegger"
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Professor of Philosophy, Yildiz Technical University, Turkey |
Ibrahim al-Sinjilawi | "The Lament for Fallen Cities: A Study of the Development of the Elegiac Genre in Classical Arabic Poetry"
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Ahmad Syafi'i Maarif | "Islam as the Basis of State: A Study of the Islamic Political Ideas as Reflected in the Constituent Assembly Debates in Indonesia"
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Senior Lecturer, IKIP Yogyakarta, Indonesia |
Tamara Sonn | "Bandalī al-Jawzī's The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam"
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Professor in the History of Islam, Georgetown University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Douglas L. Esse | "Beyond Subsistence: Beth Yerah and Northern Palestine in the Early Bronze Age"
Lawrence Stager |
Former Assistant Professor, Oriental Institute |
Marcia K. Hermansen | "Shāh Walī Allāh's theory of religion in Ḥujjat Allāh al-bāligha : with a translation of Volume I of Ḥujjat Allāh albāligha"
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Professor, Theology Department, Loyola University Chicago |
Bruce Alan Masters | "The Merchants of Aleppo (1630-1730): The Commercial and Financial Life of an Ottoman Arab City"
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Professor of History, Wesleyan University |
Carol Meyer | "Stone Artifacts from Tutub, Eshnunna, and Nippur"
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Research Associate, Oriental Institute |
Samuel Michael Shahid | "Mihyār al-Daylamī: His Biography, Poetic Work, and its Characteristics"
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Professor Emeritus, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary |
Raphael Ventura | "Living in a City of the Dead: A Selection of Topographical and Administrative Terms in the Documents of the Theban Necropolis"
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Professor Emeritus, Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University, Institute of Archaeology Tel Aviv University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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James P. Allen | "The Inflection of the Verb in the Pyramid Texts"
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Professor of Egyptology, Brown University |
Donna Lee Bowen | "Contemporary Muslim Religious Attitudes toward Family Planning in Morocco"
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Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University |
Eric Doret | "Old and Middle Egyptian Narrative Verbal System"
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Grant Frame | "Babylonia 689-627 B.C., a Political History"
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Associate Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Director of the Center for Ancient Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
John Walter Jandora | "Buṭrus al-Bustānī: Ideas, Endeavors, and Influence"
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Supervisory Analyst, US Army Special Operations Command, Adjunct Professor of International Relations, Webster University |
Paul Sprachman | "The Comic Works of ʻUbayd-I Zākānī : A Study of Medieval Persian Bawdy, Verbal Aggression, and Satire"
Heshmat Moayyad |
Assistant Professor of Persian, Rutgers University |
Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych | "Innovation in a Literary Tradition: Abu Tamman, Poet and Anthologist"
Jaroslav Stetkevych |
Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies and Chair, Georgetown University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Irene A. Bierman | "Art and Politics: The Impact of Fatimid Uses of Ṭirāz Fabrics"
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Professor Emerita, Department of Art History, UCLA |
Paul E. Zimansky | "The Political and Economic Organization of the Urartian State"
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Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History, SUNY-Stony Brook |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Valerie M. Fargo | "Settlement in Southern Palestine during Early Bronze III"
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Director, the Coppage-Gordon School for Ministry |
Leon Marfoe | "Between Qadesh and Kumidi: A History of Frontier Settlement and Land Use in the Biqaʻ, Lebanon"
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Mark Smith | "The Demotic Mortuary Papyrus Louvre E. 3452"
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Professor of Egyptology, University of Oxford |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Hillel Gideon Fradkin | "Ibn Tufayl's Ḥayy Ibn Yaqẓān on the Relationship of Mysticism, Prophecy, and Philosophy"
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Director, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future the Muslim World, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute |
Robert George Hassert | "The Late Bronze Age Painted Pottery of Palestine and Syria: Quantitative and Stylistic Analyses"
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Thomas F. Michel | "Ibn Taymiyya's al-Jawāb al-ṣaḥīḥ :A Muslim Theologian's Response to Christianity"
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Adjunct Professor, Senior Fellow, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University |
Umar Fārūq Abd-Allāh | "Mālik's Concept of ʻAmal in the Light of Mālikī Legal Theory"
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Chairman of the Board, Scholar-in-Residence, Nawawi Foundation |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Necia Gamm | "Riyāżı̄'s Riyāż us-Şuʻarā"
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Albert Leonard | "The Nature and Extent of the Mycenaen Presence in the Southeastern Mediterranean"
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Religious Studies & Classics, University of Arizona |
Juris Zarins | "The Domestication of Equidae in Third Millennium B.C. Mesopotamia"
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Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Missouri State University |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Jesse L. Boyd III | "A Collection and Examination of the Ugaritic Vocabulary Contained in the Akkadian Texts from Ras Shamra"
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Michael Bylebel | "The Wisdom of Illumination: A Study of the Prose Stories of Suhrawardi"
Heshmat Moayyad |
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Yousef Majidzadeh | "The Early Prehistoric Cultures of the Central Plateau of Iran: An Archaeological History of its Development during the Fifth and Fourth Millennia B.C."
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Professor Emeritus, University of Tehran |
David Walter Nasgowitz | "Prices of Commodities, Slaves, and Real Estate at Ugarit in the Fourteenth-Thirteenth Centuries B.C."
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Adjunct Professor of Religion, College of DuPage |
Bruce Williams | "Archaeology and Historical Problems of the Second Intermediate Period"
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Research Associate, Oriental Institute |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Margaret Whitney Green | "Eridu in Sumerian Literature"
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Ziaul Haque (d. 1988) | "Theory and Practice of Land Tenure in Early Islam: Origin and Development of the Legal Doctrine of m̲ u̲z̲a̲r̲a̲ʻ̲a̲"
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Chief of Research, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics |
Bernard Lalor | "The Politics and the Reforms of Sultan Mahmud II, 1826-1839"
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Saleh Omar | "Ibn al-Haytham and Greek Optics: A Comparative Study in Scientific Methodology"
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Dennis G. Pardee | "The Preposition in Ugaritic"
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Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute |
David P. Silverman | "Interrogative Constructions with jn and jn-jw in Spoken and Written Old and Middle Egyptian"
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Professor of Egyptology and Curator of Penn Museum's Egyptian Section, University of Pennsylvania |
John David Whitehead | "Early Aramaic Epistolography: The Arsames Correspondence"
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Michael C. Hillmann | "Unity in the Ghazals of Ḥāfeẓ"
Heshmat Moayyad |
Professor, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin |
Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati | "The Early Trans- Caucasian Culture: Geographical and Chronological Interaction"
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Visiting Professor at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles |
Paul E. Walker | "Abū Yaʻqūb al-Sijistānī and the Development of Ismaili Neoplatonism"
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Miriam S. Galston | "Opinion and Knowledge in Farabis' Understanding of Aristotle's Philosophy"
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Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University |
Syed Salman Nadvi | "ʻAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and the Caliphate"
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Janet H. Johnson | "Demotic Verbs and Dialects"
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Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute |
Harriet P. Martin | "Fara: An Archaeological Study of a Third- Millennium City"
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Former Director, British Institute for the Study of Iraq |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Elizabeth Carter | "Elam in the Second Millennium B.C.: The Archaeological Evidence"
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Professor Emeritus, UCLA |
William M. Hutchins | "Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on Knowledge"
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Professor of Religious Studies, Appalachian State University |
Luke Matthew Kuriakos | "Non-paradigmatic Forms of Weak Verbs in Masoretic Hebrew"
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Martin J. McDermott | "The Theology of al- Shaikh al-Mufīd: Its Relation to the Imamite Traditionalists and to the Baghad Mutazilites"
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Mohamed Ahmed Sherif | "Ghazali's Theory of Virtue"
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Joan Westenholz | "Some Aspects of Old Babylonian Syntax as Found in the Letters of the Period"
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Former Chief Curator, Bible Lands Museum |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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John B. Callender | "Coptic Nominal Sentences and Related Constructions"
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Professor Emeritus of Egyptian, UCLA |
Rudolph Henry Dornemann | "The Cultura and Archaeological History of the Transjordan in the Bronze and Iron Ages"
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Tarif Khalidi | "Mas'ūdī's theory and practice of history"
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Sheikh Zayed Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies, American University Beirut |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Jerrold S. Cooper | "Sumero-Akkadian Literary Bilingualism"
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W.W. Spence Professor Emeritus of Semitic Languages, Johns Hopkins University |
Khalid Taha El-Dissouky | "Elephantine in the Old Kingdom"
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Leonard H. Lesko | "The Composition of the Book of Two Ways"
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Professor Emeritus of Egyptology, Brown University |
A. Marzal-Gonzales | "The Organization of the Mari State"
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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McGuire Gibson | "The City and Area of Kish"
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Professor of Mesopotamian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Carl E. DeVries (1921-2010) | "Attitudes of the Ancient Egyptians Toward Physical-Recreative Activities "
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Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition (1963-4); Research Associate, Oriental Institute (1965-75); Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, IL; Interim Pastor, South Shore Baptist Church (1951-52) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Rivkah Brickman Harris (1928-2017) | "The Archive of the Sin Temple in Tutub (Khafajah)"
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Ezzat O. Negahban (1926-2009) | "The Buff Ware Sequence in Khuzistan"
Donald McCown |
Professor, Department of Archaeology, Tehran University (1956-79), Dean of Letters and Sciences (1975-79), Director, Iran Bastan Museum (1966-68) |
Jeanny E. Vorys (1929-2007) | "A Study of Stratigraphy, Pottery and Burials from Sites of the Second Millenium B.C. in Central Anatolia"
Robert Braidwood (?) Robert McC. Adams (?) |
Later, Jeanny Vorys Canby. PhD at Bryn Mawr; Visiting Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University; Curator, Ancient Near East wing,, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Rashid Salem El-Nadoury (1913-) | "The Egyptian Term hʻ -nswt and the Problems of the "Accession" of the Egyptian King"
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Faisal Jasim El-Wailly (1920-) | "The Political History of the Kassite Period in Babylonia"
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Director-General of Antiquities, Baghdad |
Wolfgang William Hallo (1928-2015) | "The Ensi's of the Ur III Dynasty"
I.J. Gelb |
Professor, Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion (1956-62); Professor, Assyriology and Babylonian Literature, and Curator, Babylonian Collection, Yale (1961-2002) |
Richard Rolland Mertz | "Some Aspects of Egyptian Autobiography before the New Kingdom"
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Barbara G. Mertz (1927-2013) | "Certain Titles of the Egyptian Queens and their Bearing on the Hereditary Right to the Throne"
John A. Wilson |
Author (also as Barbara Michaels, Elizabeth Peters, and Barbara Mertz), |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Herbert Harry Paper (1925-2012) | "The Phonology and Morphology of Royal Achaemenid Elamite"
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Hebrew Union College (1977-99), Fulbright Scholarship, Iran (1952); Professor of Linguistics and Near Eastern Studies, University of Michigan (1953-77); Dean of Graduate Studies |
Nataraj Govindji Vashi (1924-1999) | "Dance in Sanskrit Literature from Pāṇini to Bharata Mun"
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Hindu philosophy and dance, Black Mountain College |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Leroy Richard Hammill (1913-1997) | "Biblical interpretation in the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha"
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Clergyman (Seventh Day Adventist), Missionary, Professor, President, Andrews University (1963-76) |
Charles O. Hucker (1919-) | "Dance in the Early Sanskrit Literature"
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Instructor, University of Arizona and Oakland University; Chair, Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan (1965-83) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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George M. Haddad (1910-2000) | "Aspects of Social Life in Antioch in the Hellenistic-Roman Period"
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Syrian State University, Damascus (1950-60); Professor, Committee on Middle Eastern Studies, UC Santa Barbara (1960-1980); University of San Francisco |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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William John McCoy, Jr. (1924-2007) | "Some Principles of the Evolution in Character Forms as Found in the Bronze Inscriptions of the Chou Dynasty"
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PhD in Linguistics at Cornell (1966); Professor of Chinese, Japanese, and Mongolian, Cornell (1966-84) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Richard Augusto Caminos (1915-1992) | "Osorkon's annals : being a translation of, and a philological commentary on, the hieroglyphic texts inscribed on the Bubastite gate in the great temple of Amun at Karnak"
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Queen’s College, Oxford (1945-6); Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute Chicago at Luxor (1947-50); Professor, Brown University, 1952-79; Visiting Professor, University of Leningrad and the USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, (1973-4) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Linda Braidwood (1909-2003) | "Artifactual Materials of Terminal Food-gathering Stage of North Africa and the Near East"
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Research Associate, Joint Chicago-Istanbul Prehistoric Project, Oriental Institute (1947-76) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Helene J. Kantor (1919-1993) | "Plant Ornament: Its Origin and Development in the Ancient Near East"
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Professor Emerita, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute |
Miriam Lichtheim (1914-2004) | ""The Songs of the Harpers" "
Keith Seele, John Wilson, Henri Frankfort |
New School for Social Research (New York); Academic Librarian, Yale; Near East Bibliographer, UCLA (retired 1974); Lecturer in Egyptian Literature, Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1982-88) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Robert Braidwood (1907-2003) | "The Comparative Archaeology of Early Syria: From the Time of the Earliest Known Village Cultures through the Akkadian Period"
Henri Frankfort |
Professor, Departments of Anthropology and NELC (1945-78); Member, National Academy of Sciences |
Edwin R. Thiele (1895-1986) | "The Chronology of the Kings of Judah and Israel"
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Emmanuel Missionary College (1937-) Professor of Antiquity, Andrews University (1963-65) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Donald Eugene McCown (1910-1985) | "A Historical Study of the Material Culture of Iran, Down to the Middle of the Third Millennium"
Henri Frankfort / A. Olmstead |
Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures (NELC), University of Chicago (1942-55) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Israel Horowitz (1908-2006) | "The Structure of a Coptic Donation Contract"
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Ann Louise Perkins (1915-2006) | "The Comparative Stratigraphy of Prehistoric Mesopotamia"
Henri Frankfort |
Research Associate, Yale (1949-65); Professor, Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1965-78) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Holger Alrik Lindsjo (1907-1994) | "A Study of the Hebrew Root [shuv] and its Religious Concepts"
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Ruth Cutter Nash (d. 1967) | "The Relationship of Egyptian to the Semitic and Hamitic Languages: A Critical Bibliography"
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Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Lynn Wood Harper (1887-) | "The Evolution of Systems of Defense in Palestine"
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Charles Francis Nims (1906-1988) | "University of Michigan Demotic Papyri: Papyri from Philadelphia"
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Field Director, Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey |
Lewis Victor Thomas (1914-1965) | "Contribution Toward a Bibliography of Turkish Studies"
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Robert College, Istanbul PhD Free University, Belgium (1947) Professor, Oriental Studies, Princeton (1949-65) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Allen Diehl Albert, Jr (1901-1972) | "The Development of the City in Ancient Babylonia and Assyria"
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Professor, Department of Sociology, Emory University |
Alexander Heidel (1907-1955) | "The Quadriliteral Verb in Akkadian"
I.J. Gelb |
Research Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Anis Furayhah (1903-1992) | "Quadriliterals from the dialect of Ras al-Matn (Lebanon)"
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Professor, American University of Beirut (1929-67), and Lebanese University (1969-74) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Morris Gross (1904-1989) | "The Relation of Blessing and Cursing in the Psalms to the Evolution of Hebrew Religion" additional 1932 MA in Department Of Old Testament on "Family Life in Ancient Israel"
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Richard Treadwell Hallock (1906-1980) | "The Chicago Syllabary and the Louvre Syllabary AO 7661"
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Oriental Institute Research Associate, Assyrian Dictionary Project (1934-41 and 1947-63); War Department, Washington DC (1941-47); Associate Professor, Oriental Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago (1963-1971) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Nabia Abbott | "The Ḳurrah Papyri of the Oriental Institute"
Martin Sprengling |
Professor Emerita, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago & Oriental Institute |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Nejla Mustapha (Abu) Izzeddin | "Taha Husain and the Dawn of Islam"
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PhD in 1934, author of several books on the Druze and the Arab world, associated with Vassar College |
Calvin Wells McEwan (1906-1950) | "The Oriental Origin of Hellenistic Kingship"
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Oriental Institute, directed excavations at Halay-Catal Hoylik. Tell al-ludaidah, Tell Tayinat, Tell Dhahab, and Tell Kurdu in Amuq Valley, 1932-38. Major, US Army, WWII |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Constantine Zurayk (Qusṭanṭīn Zurayq, 1909-2000) | "Miskawaihi's Ethics and Greek Thought"
Martin Sprengling |
PhD Princeton (under Philip Hitti), Professor, American University of Beirut, Syrian Delegation to the UN (1945-6), Vice President AUB (1952-); coined the term "Nakba" |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Hans Henning von der Osten (1899-1960) | "Explorations in Central Anatolia (season 1926)"
James Henry Breasted (?) |
Chair of Archaeology, Ankara University (1936-39); Professor, University of Uppsala (1951-59); Director DAI, Tehran (1960) |
William Ernest Frank Ward (1900-1994) | "Egyptian Royal Messenger Service, The Predecessor of Later European Diplomacy"
James Henry Breasted (?) |
Director of Education, British Colonial Education Service, Mauritius |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Fred William Geers | "A Babylonian Omen-text"
Daniel David Luckenbill (?) |
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John Albert Wilson (1899-1976) | "The Texts of the battle of Kadesh"
James Henry Breasted (?) |
Professor of Egyptology, Oriental Langs. & Lits., University of Chicago; Director of Oriental Institute (1936-46) |
Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
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Gertrude Voigtlander Tweedie (1885-1953) | "The relation of Hindu and Muhammadan cultures to each other in India"
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