Murat Bozluolcay has been awarded the Syrian Studies Association Dissertation.
Fourth-year Ph.D. student Alika Zangieva has been awarded the 2024 Andreas Tietze Memorial Fellowship in Turkish Studies at the University of Vienna.
Sam Harshbarger, who is pursuing a minor in Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.
Jamie Pelling *23 has been awarded MESA’s 2023 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award (Humanities) for her dissertation, “Feeling Like a State: Anxiety and Optimism in the Late Ottoman Empire.”
Fourth-year graduate student Michael Battalia has been awarded a 2023–24 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Fellowship to conduct fieldwork in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He is also the recipient of a 2023–24 Donald and Mary Hyde Academic-Year Fellowship for Research Abroad in the Humanities.
Cevat Dargin has been named the Nikit and Eleanora Ordjanian Visiting Professorship in Armenian Studies at Columbia University.
Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs M. Şükrü Hanioğlu has published Atatürk: Entelektüel Biyografi with Bağlam.
Duygu Coşkuntuna successfully defends doctoral dissertation.
Murat Bozluolcay successfully defends doctoral dissertation.
Seven NES graduate students have been awarded fellowships for the 2023–24 academic year.