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West Asia
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2022

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Al-Ferzly, Michelle, " ‘A Receptacle for Every Good Thing’: The Art of Medieval Islamic Dining, Eighth to Fifteenth Centuries" (University of Michigan, C. Gruber)

De Giuseppe, Ileana, "The Practice of Everyday Life: Transculturation and the Archaeology of Identity in Hellenistic Asia" (University of California, Irvine, M. Canepa)

Khalil, Duaa, "Unscripted: The Transformation of Modern and Contemporary Arabic Printmaking" (State University of New York, Binghamton, T. McDonough)

Mulder, David, "Mastering Animals: The Contest Scene in Early Dynastic Mesopotamia" (University of Pennsylvania, H. Pittman)

Selch, Rebecca, "Memorializing the City: Illustrated Manuscripts of the Majālis al-ʿUshshāq and the Making of Genre in Early Modern Iran" (Harvard University, D. Roxburgh, G. Necipoğlu)

Ziaii-Bigdeli, Layah, "Materiality, Foodways and the Construction of Elite Cultural Identity in the Late Antique and Early Islamic Iranian World (3rd–10th century CE)" (University of California, Irvine, M.Canepa, A. Patel)