Fifth-year Ph.D. student Rami Koujah has been named a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellow.

Near Eastern Studies held its 2023 Class Day reception in Jones 102 on May 29, 2023.

The Final Public Oral Examination of Jamie Pelling was held on Wednesday, May 17. Pelling’s dissertation, “Feeling Like a State: Anxiety and Optimism in the Late Ottoman Empire,” was advised by Michael Reynolds (NES) and Julia Elyachar (Anthropology and PIIRS). Examiners included M. Şükrü Hanioǧlu (NES) and Evren Savcı (Yale University).