Katy M. Montoya successfully defended her M.A. thesis, “‘Loving the Revolution but Hating the People’: On ReorientingSyrian Cultural Production Toward Syria’s Revolutionary Masses,” at her Final Public Oral Examination on Tuesday afternoon, June 22, 2021. Conducting the examination were her advisor was Max Weiss (History and NES), Fadi Bardawil (Duke University), and Marina Rustow (NES and History).