Near Eastern Studies held its 2018 Class Day Reception in 1915 Hall on June 4. At the reception the Department and Program announced departmental honors and presented this year’s prize winners. Jeremy Rotblat and Katie Tyler earned Highest Honors, Coy Ozias and Emma Claire Jones earned High Honors, and Ariana Mirzada, Talya Nevins and Nick Jonsson earned Honors. Katie Tyler was awarded the Bayard and Cleveland Dodge Memorial Thesis Prize for her thesis, “Widespread Literacy in Tuareg and Mangyan Indigenous Communities: The Roles of Writing, Pedagogy, and Institutional Interventions.” Nick Jonsson (“From Zaydi Revival to the Gates of Power: The Huthi Movement of Yemen”) and Talya Nevins (“Interpreters and Ideals: How US Immigration Policy Failed Afghan Translators“) were both awarded a Near Eastern Studies Department Prize for an Outstanding Senior Thesis. Dahlia Kaki won the Program in Near Eastern Studies Senior Thesis Prize for her thesis, “Cancer Control and Prevention in Tunisia: The Malignancies of Poor Governance.” The T. Cuyler Young Award for Iranian Studies was presented to Jeremy Rotblat for his senior thesis, “Messiahs in Memory, Prophets in Poetry: Resituating the Roshaniyya Movement in the Sixteenth-Century Millenarian Milieu.” The Ertegün Foundation Thesis Prize for Best Senior Thesis in Ottoman, Turkish, or Turkic Studies was awarded to Emma Claire Jones for her thesis, “Bukhara in Construction: Building the Past and Future in Early Soviet Bukhara.” Noreen Andersen ’19 won The F. O. Kelsey Prize for Best Junior Paper for her JP, “Reforming Views on Zionism and the Internet: Revealing How the Haredim Have Been Misclassified as Fundamentalist.” Nick Jonsson received the Near Eastern Studies Senior Language Prize for Overall Achievement in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, or Turkish. Marina Cooper ’21 was awarded the Judith Laffan Memorial Prize for Outstanding Progress and Dedication to the Arabic Language.