The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1903 (www.metmuseum.org).
Alumni Placement
| Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Instructor (Lecturer), World Languages and Cultures, University of Utah |
| 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 |
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| Brittany Hayden |
" Price Formation and Fluctuation in Ptolemaic Egypt"
Brian Muhs |
Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group |
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology for Adult Education Courses , Oriental Institute |
| 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 |
|
| Suleyman Dost |
"An Arabian Qur’ān: Towards a Theory of Peninsular Origins"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor of Classical Islam in the Department of Near East and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University |
| Michael Fisher |
"The Late Chalcolithic 1 Period in Northern Mesopotamia: Tell Zeidan, Syria, in Regional Context"
Gil Stein |
|
| 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 |
|
| 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 |
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| Lindsey Weglarz |
"Continuity and Change: A Reevaluation of Cultural Identity and "Egyptianization" in Lower Nubia during the New Kingdom "
Nadine Moeller |
Program Coordinator, Graduate Enrollment Initiatives, University of Chicago |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| 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 Bumbaugh |
"Calling Out to Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae"
Janet Johnson |
Adjunct Professor, American University |
| Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer |
"The Exploitation of Avian Resources in Ancient Egypt: A Socio-Economic Study"
Janet Johnson |
|
| Kathryn Bandy |
"Town and District: Local and Regional Administration during the Second Intermediate Period"
Robert Ritner |
|
| Yasar Tolga Cora |
"Transforming Erzurum/Karin: The Social and Economic History of A Multi-Ethnic Ottoman City in The Nineteenth Century"
Holly Shissler |
Manoogian Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan |
| 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 |
Adjunct 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 |
Columbia University, Assistant Professor of Ottoman History, History Department |
| 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 |
Publications Manager, Center for Near Eastern Archaeology, La Sierra 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 |
Viterbi Visiting Professor, Jewish Studies/NELC, UCLA |
| Name | Dissertation Title / Advisor | Job Placement |
|---|---|---|
| Rodrigo Adem |
"The Sources for an Intellectual Biography of Ibn Taymīya"
Ahmed El Shamsy |
College Fellow, Department of History, Harvard 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 |
|
| Drayton Benner |
"The Sounds of the Psalter"
Dennis Pardee |
President, Miklal Software Solutions |
| 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 and Islamic History, University of Birmingham |
| Nathan Mastnjak |
"The Prophet Who Was before Me: Allusions to Deuteronomy in the Book of Jeremiah"
Dennis Pardee |
Visiting Lecturer in Biblical Hebrew, Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University-Bloomington |
| Matthew McAffee |
"Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical, Literary, and Comparative Analysis"
Dennis Pardee |
Professor of Bible and Biblical Languages, Welch College |
| Tate Paulette |
"Grain storage and the moral economy in Mesopotamia (3000–2000 BC)"
McGuire Gibson |
Assistant 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, ASOR CHI Geospatial Initiatives |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Associate Editor for Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship |
| 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 |
|
| Humphrey Hardy |
"Diachronic Development in Biblical Hebrew Prepositions: A Case Study in Grammaticalization"
Dennis Pardee |
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Assistant Professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages |
| Kaveh Hemmat |
"Through the Eyes of Others: Trade Diasporas and Early Modern Geographical Knowledge"
John Woods |
Lecturer, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 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 |
|
| Feryal Salem |
"'Abd Allah b. al-Mubarak Between Hadith, Jihad, and Zuhd: An Expression of Early Sunni Identity in the Formative Period"
Fred Donner |
Assistant Professor of Islamic Scriptures & Law, Hartford Seminary |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|
| Tanya Treptow |
"Archaeology and the Construction of Islamic Heritage in Egypt"
Donald Whitcomb & Fred Donner |
Associate , 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 |