Cevat Dargin successfully defended his doctoral dissertation, “State-Making in Dersim across Empire and Nation-state (1878–1938),” at his Final Public Oral Examination held Wednesday, May 26, 2021, in the afternoon. The examination committee consisted of his advisor, Michael Reynolds (NES), Bernard Haykel (NES), Max Weiss (History and NES), and Sabri Ateş (Southern Methodist University).