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ecent ph.d. graduates
the cMeS extends its warmest congratulations to all of the recent graduates who specialized in Middle
eastern topics in various programs and departments at Berkeley.
reem Alissa, Department of
Architecture
Building for Oil: Corporate
Colonialism, Nationalism, and
Urban Modernity in Ahmadi,
1946–1992
Advisor: Prof . Nezar AlSayyad,
Departments of Architecture and
City and regional Planning
Yael Allweil, Department of
Architecture
Building a Home-Land: Zionism as
a Regime of Housing 1860–2005
Advisor: Prof . Nezar AlSayyad,
Departments of Architecture and
City and regional Planning
Hiba Bou Akar, Department of
City and regional Planning
Contesting Beirut’s Frontiers:
Urban Development, Militarization,
and the Spatial Production of
Religious-Political Difference
Advisors: Prof . Nezar AlSayyad,
Departments of Architecture and
City and regional Planning; Prof .
Ananya roy, Department of City
and regional Planning
dana depietro, Department of
Near Eastern Studies
Piety, Practice, and Politics: Ritual
and Agency in the Late Bronze
Southern Levant
Advisor: Prof . Marian Feldman,
Departments of History of Art and
Near Eastern Studies
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cristina rhiannon graybill,
Department of Near Eastern
Studies
Men in Travail: Masculinity and the
Problem of the Body in Hebrew
Prophets
Advisor: Prof . robert Alter,
Department of Comparative
literature
Alison Lori Joseph, Department
of Near Eastern Studies
The Portrait of the Kings and the
Historiographical Poetics of the
Deuteronomistic Historian
Advisor: Prof . ronald Hendel,
Department of Near Eastern
Studies
Anaita Khudonazar, Department
of Near Eastern Studies
Generational Politics: Narratives
of Power in Central Asia’s Visual
Culture
Advisor: Sanjyot Mehendale,
Department of Near Eastern
Studies
Satyel Larson, Department of
rhetoric
Bearing Knowledge: Law,
Reproduction and the Female
Body in Modern Morocco, 1912–
present
Advisor: Prof . Marianne Constable,
Department of rhetoric
elizabeth Joanna Minor,
Department of Near Eastern Studies
The Use of Egyptian and
Egyptianizing Material Culture in the
Nubian Burials of the Classic Kerma
Period
Advisor: Prof . Carol redmount,
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Barbara Ann richter, Department
of Near Eastern Studies
The Theology of Hathor of Dendera:
Aural and Visual Scribal Techniques
in the Per-wer Sanctuary
Advisors: Prof . Jacco Dieleman,
Department of Near Eastern
languages and Cultures, UClA &
Prof . Carol redmount, Department
of Near Eastern Studies
Samuel frank thrope, Jewish
Studies Program
Contradictions and Vile Utterances:
The Zoroastrian Critique of Judaism
in the Škand Gumānīg Wizār
Advisor: Emeritus Prof . Martin
Schwartz, Department of Near
Eastern Studies
Zohar Wieman-Kelman,
Department of Comparative
literature
So the Kids Won’t Understand”:
Inherited Futures of Jewish Women
Writers
Advisor: Prof . Chana Kronfeld,
Departments of Comparative
literature and Near Eastern Studies
Congratulations on your achievement!