2017 Ph.D.s Verskin, Sara G. Dissertation: “Barren Women: The Intersection of Biology, Medicine, and Religion in the Treatment of Infertile Women in the Medieval Middle East.” Advisor: Michael A. Cook. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): September 25, 2017 First Position(s): Adjunct Lecturer, History Department, Rhode Island College, 2016– Current position: Same Foster, Zachary Jacob. Dissertation: “The Invention of Palestine.” Advisor: Cyrus Schayegh. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): September 25, 2017 First Position(s): Product Manager, The Academia.edu Team Current position: Same Johnsen, Gregory Dean. Dissertation: “A Century of Upheaval: The fall of the Imāmate and the Rise of the Ḥūthīs in Yemen, 1904–2014.” Advisor: Bernard A. Haykel. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 5, 2017 First position(s): Regional Expert on the Yemen Panel of Experts for the UN Security Council Current position: Same 2016 Ph.D.s Husayn, Nebil. Dissertation: “The Memory of Ali b. Talib in Early Sunni Thought” Advisor: Hossein Modarressi Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 11, 2016 First position(s): Assistant professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Miami Current position: Same 2015 Ph.D.s Rock-Singer, Aaron White. Dissertation: “Guiding the Pious to Practice: Islamic Magazines and Revival in Egypt, 1976- 1981” Advisor: M. Qasim Zaman Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): December 9, 2015 First position(s): Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, 2016–17. Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Islam, Department of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell, 2017– Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang. Dissertation: “Relocating the Centers of Shīʿī Islam: Religious Authority, Sectarianism, and the Limits of the Transnational in Colonial India and Pakistan” Advisor: M. Qasim Zaman Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): September 10, 2015 First position(s): Four-year Junior Research Fellowship in Islamic Studies at Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge Current position: Lecturer in Islamic and Middle East Studies, Orientalisches Seminar, Albert- Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, October 2017– Zaki, Mona Abdel Hamid. Dissertation: “Jahannam in Medieval Islamic Thought.” Advisor: Michael A. Cook. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): June 12, 2015. First position(s): Visiting Assistant Professor of Arabic Studies, College of William and Mary, 2015–. Current position: Same Helfont, Samuel R. Dissertation: “Compulsion in Religion: The Authoritarian Roots of Saddam Hussein’s Islam.” Advisor: Bernard A. Haykel. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 18, 2015. First position(s): Lecturer, Interdisciplinary International Relations program, University of Pennsylvania, 2016–; Robert A. Fox Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute, Philadelphia Current position: Same Olidort, Jacob. Dissertation: “In Defense of Tradition: Muḥammad Nāṣir Al-Dīn Al-Albānī and the Salafī Method.” Advisor: Bernard A. Haykel. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 12, 2015. First position(s): Soref Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2015–; on assignment as special advisor on Middle East policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense; adjunct professor, Institute for Middle East Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University Current position: National Security Advisor and Counsel on Foreign Policy Issues to Senator Orin Hatch, United State Senate 2014 Ph.D.s Zinger, Oded. Dissertation: “Women, Gender and Law: Marital Disputes According to Documents from the Cairo Geniza.” Advisor: Mark R. Cohen. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): June 30, 2014 First position(s): Postdoctoral Associate, Jewish Studies, Duke University, 2014–16 Current position: Fellow in the Jewish Women’s Cultural Capital from the Late Middle Ages Through the Early Twentieth Century Group, Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies, 2016–17; Member, Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hebrew University, 2017– Akarca, Halit Dündar. Dissertation: “Imperial Formations in Occupied Lands: The Russian Occupation of Ottoman Territories during the First World War.” Advisor: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 20, 2014 First position(s): Visiting Professor of International Relations, İpek University, Ankara; Postdoctoral Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University. 2015–16 Current position: Lecturer, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department, New York University, 2017; Postdoctoral Fellow, Kazakh Language, Literature and Culture Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Narzarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2017– Sayers, David Selim. Dissertation title: “The Wiles of Women in Ottoman and Azeri Texts.” Advisor: M. Şükrü Hanioğlu. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 12, 2014 First position(s): Lecturer in Turkish Studies, Middle East and Islamic Studies, San Francisco State University (2013–2016) Current position: Lecturer at the Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen, Germany (2016–); Gastprofessor für Turkologie, Institut für Orientalistik, Universität Wien (2017–) Szilágyi, Krisztina. Dissertation title: “After the Prophet’s Death: Christian-Muslim Polemic and the Literary Images of Muhammad.” Advisor: Michael A. Cook. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): April 16, 2014 First position(s): Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University (2011–2015) Current position: Research Associate, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University 2013 Ph.D.s Samin, Nadav. Dissertation title: “The Dark Matter of Tribal Belonging: Genealogical Representation and Practice in Saudi Arabia.” Advisor: Bernard A. Haykel. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): September 27, 2013 First position(s): Institute for the Transregional Study of the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia Fellow, Princeton University, and concurrently a Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow for Transregional Research (Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections) (2013–2014) Current position: Lecturer in Anthropology, Dartmouth College, 2014–?; Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, Dartmouth College, 2016–2017; Department of Justice, U.S. government, 2017– Lob, Eric S. Dissertation title: “An Institutional History of the Iranian Construction Jihad.” Advisor: Mirjam Künkler. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): August 28, 2013 First position(s): Junior research fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies, Brandeis University (2013–2014 ); Assistant professor in Middle East comparative politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University (2014–) Current position: Assistant professor in Middle East comparative politics, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, 2014– Garipova, Rozaliya. Dissertation title: “Transformation of the Ulama and the Shari‘a in the Volga-Ural Muslim Community under Russian Imperial Rule.” Advisor: M. Qasim Zaman. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): August 16, 2013 First position(s): Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences (Religious Studies), 2013–2015, University of Pennsylvania Current position: Visiting Faculty, International Relations Department, School of Government, İpek University, Ankara; Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, September 2015–December 2015; James Billington Fellow, Kennan Institute, Wilson Center, September 2016–May 2017; Assistant Professor, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Department, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan, 2017– Stolz, Daniel A. Dissertation title: “The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Authority, and Cultures of Astronomy in Late Ottoman Egypt.” Advisor: M. Qasim Zaman. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): August 5, 2013 First position(s): Two-year postdoc in the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University; affiliated with and teaching in the History Department (2013–2015) Current position: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of history, Northwestern, 2015– Weitz, Lev E. Dissertation title: “Syriac Christians in the Medieval Islamic World: Law, Family, and Society.” Advisor: Michael A. Cook. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): May 2, 2013 First position(s): Assistant Professor, Department of History, The Catholic University of America Current position: Same 2012 Ph.D.s Marglin, Jessica M. Dissertation title: “In the Courts of the Nations: Jews, Muslims, and Legal Pluralism in Nineteenth-Century Morocco.” Advisor: Mark R. Cohen. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): December 17, 2012 First position(s): Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies (Spring 2013); Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, University of Michigan (2013–2014) Current position: Ruth Ziegler Early Career Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion, USC (2014–) Cohen, Elisabeth H. Dissertation title: “Formal Structure in the Lyric Poetry of 'Abd Allah Ibn Al-Mu'tazz.” Advisor: Andras P. Hamori. Date of Dissertation Defense (Final Public Oral): October 26, 2012 First position(s): Humanities teacher,