Alumni

Aybike Tezel – May 2023

Dissertation: State and Society in Early Medieval Inner Asia

Kenneth Linden – November 2022

Dissertation: Milk is Gold: An Environmental and Animal History of Livestock Herding in Socialist Mongolia

Jessica Storey-Nagy – July 2022

Dissertation: Sovereign Voices: Politics, Identity, and Meaning-Making in Contemporary Hungary

Sara Conrad - June 2021

Dissertation: Momo, Motherhood, and the 7 Train: Exiled Tibetan Women in New York City

Tenzin Tsepak - December 2021

Dissertation: The Mirror: Tibetan Intellectuals in Pursuit of Indic Poetics (1250-1800)

Jianfei Jia - October 2021

Dissertation: Crime and Punishment: Law, Justice, and Society in Qing Huijiang (1759-1864)

Julian Kreidl - September 2021

Dissertation: A Historical Grammar of Pashto

Samuel Bass - August 2021

Dissertation: The Bound Steppe: Slavery, State, and Family in Qing Mongolia

Kuerban Niyazi - August 2021

Dissertation: The Hidayatinamsh as the Shadow of the Afaqiyya Path in East Turkistan (1653-1694)

Brian Cwiek - August 2021

Dissertation: Sowing the Seeds of Change: State-Building and Cotton Agriculture in Twentieth-Century Xinjiang

Zeynep Elbasan-Bozdogan - July 2021

Dissertation: The Discursive Transformation of a Soul in Exile: The Unconventional Nature of Cem Sultan’s Poetry

Sara Conrad - June 2021

Dissertation: Momo, Motherhood, and the 7 Train: Exiled Tibetan Women in New York City

Bo Huang - March 2021

Dissertation: The Birth of Lamaism: Religious Institution, Ethnic Identity, and Politics behind Tibetan-rite Buddhism in Imperial China from the 11th -19th Century

Hosung Shim - January 2021

Dissertation: The State Formation of the Zunghar Principality: A Political History of the Last Centralized State of the Eurasian Steppe

Kwang Tae Lee - May 2020

Dissertation: The Myth of the Butcher Amir: Tribal Politics and Early Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Central Asia

Xuan Li - April 2020

Dissertation: Tibetan Politics in the Reform and Opening-up Era, 1978-1988

Defne Jones - December 2019

Dissertation: Democratization or De-Democratization: The Role of Civil Society in Mass and Elite Interactions

Narges Nematollahi - August 2019

Dissertation: The Iranian Epistolary Tradition: Origins and Developments (6th Century BCE to 7th Century CE)

Elise Anderson - August 2019

Dissertation: Imperfect Perfection: Uyghur Muqam and the Practice of Cultural Renovation in the People's Republic of China

Aziza Shanazarova - July 2019

Dissertation: A Female Saint in Muslim Polemics: Aghā-Yi Buzurg and her Legacy in Early Modern Central Asia

Christopher Baker - May 2019

Dissertation: Ethnic Words and Soviet Things: Soviet Civilization and the Literature of Late Soviet Kazakhstan

Piper O’Sullivan - April 2018

Dissertation: Literary Politics of the Soviet-Afghan War

Michael Hancock-Parmer - June 2017

Dissertation: Running Until Our Feet Turn White: The Barefooted Flight and Kazakh National History

Wei-chieh Tsai - June 2017

Dissertation: Mongolization of Han Chinese and Manchu Settlers in Qing Mongolia, 1700-1911

Leland Rogers - December 2016

Dissertation: Understanding Ancient Human Population Genetics of the Eastern Eurasian Steppe through Mitochondrial DNA Analysis: Central Mongolian Samples from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age and Mongol Empire Periods.

Jonathan North Washington - July 2016

Dissertation: An Investigation of Vowel Anteriority in Three Turkic Languages Using Ultrasound Tongue Imaging

Nick Walmsley - May 2016

Dissertation: O navā 'ī!: Imitation, Innovation, and the Invention of a Central Asian Literary Icon, 1500-1900

Daniel Beben - July 2015

Dissertation: The Legendary Biographies of Nasir-i Khusraw: Memory and Textualization in Early Modern Persian Literature

Kristoffer Rees - May 2015

Dissertation: Citizenship, Identity Politics, and Language Choice in Kazakhstan

Robert Dunbar - April 2015

Dissertation: Zayn al-Din Mahmud Vasifi and the Transformation of Early Sixteenth Century Islamic Central Asia

Timothy Grose - April 2014

Dissertation: The Uyghurs of the Xinjiang class: Boarding School Education, Ehtno-national Identity and the Zhonghua Minzu's Discontented Members

Aziz Burkhanov - October 2013

Dissertation: Ethnic State versus Civic Nation-State in Kazakhstan: National Identity Discourse in Kazakh and Russian Media of Kazakhstan

Federica Venturi - April 2013

Dissertation: Creating Sacred Space: The Religious Geography of Sa skya, Tibet's Medieval Capital

Andrew Shimunek - March 2013

Dissertation: The Serbi-Mongolic Language Family: Old Chinese, Middle Chinese, Old Mandarin, and Old Tibetan Records on the Hsien-pei (Xianbei) Languages and their Relationship to Mongolic, with Notes on Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology

Filiz Çiçek - December 2012

Dissertation: From Margins to the Center Through the Film Lens: Gender and Turkish-German Cinema

İhsan Çolak - December 2011

Dissertation: Secularization of the Muslim Mind: Defining Muslim Reformation Among Volga-Ural Muslims

Nicole Willock - August 2011

Dissertation: The Tibetan Buddhist Polymath in Modern China

Tristra Newyear - May 2010

Dissertation: The Drama of Enlightenment. The Discourse of Darkness: Buryat Grassroots Theater, 1908-1930

Züleyha Çolak - May 2010

Romancing the Female Role in Ottoman Joseph and Zulaykha Mesnevs: Taşlicali Yahyā’s Yūsuf u Zelīhā

Abbas Karakaya - March 2010

Işık Kuşçu - December 2008

Dissertation: Kazakhstan’s Oralman Project: A Remedy for Ambiguous Identity?

Idil Tuncher Kilavuz - August 2007

Dissertation: Understanding Violent Conflict: A Comparative Study of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan

James Schelble - May 2007

Dissertation: The Marketization of Education in Hungary: Education and Social Mobility in Theory and Practice

Anya King - February 2007

Dissertation: The Musk Trade and the Near East in the Early Medieval Period

Brian Baumann - October 2005

Dissertation: Divine Knowledge: Buddhist Mathematics According to Antoine Mostaert's Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination

Mariya Niendorf - May 2005

Dissertation: Investigating the Future of Finnish Congruency: Focus on Possessive Morphology

Ron Sela - October 2004

Dissertation: Central Asia in the 18th Century, the Age of Introspection

Lauran Hartley - June 2003

Dissertation: Contextually Speaking: Tibetan Literary Discourse and Social change in the People's Republic of China (1980-2000)

Thomas Cooper - May 2003

Dissertation: Construction of the Psychological Novel: Mimesis of Consciousness in the Novels of Zsigmond Kemény

Dan Prior - August 2002

Dissertation: The Twilight Age of the Kirghiz Epic Tradition

Peter Marsh - May 2002

Dissertation: Moving the World Through Two Strings: the Horse-head Fiddle and the Cosmopolitan Reimagination of Tradition in Mongolia

Yılmaz Bingöl - February 2002

Dissertation: Revisiting Turkish Language Policy in Light of the Actors’ Norms and Identity Model

Alexsandr Naymark - August 2001

Dissertation: Sogdiana, Its Christians and Byzantium: A Study of Artistic and Cultural Connections in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages

Elizabeth Constantine - August 2001

Dissertation: Public Discourse and Private Lives: Uzbek Women under Soviet Rule, 1917-1991

John Erickson - April 2001

Dissertation: Language Contact and Morphosyntactic Change: Shift of Case-Marker Functions in Turkic

Lynne Thornton Sasmazer - December 2000

Dissertation: Provisioning Istanbul: Break Production, Power, and Political Ideology in the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1807

Halim Kara - October 2000

Dissertation: Resisting Narratives: Reading Abdulhamid Suleymon Cholpan from a Postcolonial Perspective

Carl Johan Elverskog - September 2000

Dissertation: Buddhism, History & Power: The Jewel Translucent Sutra and the Formation of Mongol Identity

Talant Mawkanuli - December 1999

Dissertation: The Phonology and Morphology of Jungar Tuva

Jonathan Thurman - December 1999

Dissertation: Modes of Organization in Central Asian Irrigation: The Ferghana Valley, 1876 to Present

William Wood - February 1999

Dissertation: The Sariq Turkmens of Merv and the Khanate of Khiva in the Early Nineteenth Century

Geoff Childs - October 1998

Dissertation: A Cultural and Historical Analysis of Demographic Trends and Family Management Strategies Among the Tibetans of Nubri, Nepal

Zsuzsanna Gulácsi - August 1998

Dissertation: Medieval Manichaean Book Art: A Study of Design, Function, and Origin of Manichaean Book Illumination

Carolyn Shields - May 1998

Dissertation: From Fortress to Monastery: The Evolution of Tibetan Temple and Monastic Architecture

Shahyar Daneshgar - July 1995

Dissertation: Azerbaijani Proverbs: Collection and Analysis (Formal and Thematic)

Kristina Rusnik - June 1995

Dissertation: The Serbs of Hungary Ethnicity and Government Policy in a Transitional Society

Allen Frank - July 1994

Dissertation: Islamic Regional Identity in Imperial Russia: Tatar and Bashkir Historiography in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Robert Doebler - June 1994

Dissertation: Cities, Population Redistribution, and Urbanization in Mongolia: 1918-1990

Christopher Atwood - May 1994

Dissertation: Revolutionary Nationalist Mobilization in Inner Mongolia, 1925-1929: Volume 1 and Volume 2

Noureddine Zahmoul - March 1994

Dissertation: The Historical layers of the Selkup Vocabulary

Tsuguhito Takeuchi - February 1994

Dissertation: A Study of the Old Tibetan Contracts

Kemal Silay - June 1993

Dissertation: Nedim's New Discourse and the Poetics of the Ottoman Court: A Challenge to the Canon

Karl Krippes - June 1991

Dissertation: The Reconstruction of Proto-Mongolian *p-

Nicola Di Cosmo - November 1991

Dissertation: Inner Asia and the Hsiung-nu in Early Chinese Historiography

Sharon Franklin-Rahkonen - November 1991

Dissertation: Jewish Identity in Finland

Todd Gibson - October 1991

Dissertation: The Cult of the btsan: archaic consciousness in Tibetan Religion

Harri William Murk - May 1991

Dissertation: The Structure and Development of Estonian Morphology (2 parts)

Gregory Nehler - May 1991

Dissertation: Babits on Ady: A Study in Hungarian Literary Criticism

Daniel Preston Martin - May 1991

Dissertation: Buddha's Dividing Legacy: Gshen-chen Klu-dga' and the Tibetan Polemical Tradition

Wonsoo, Yu - February 1991

Dissertation: A Study of Mongolian Negation

Yael Bentor - January 1991

Dissertation: The Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Consecration Ritual for Stupas, Images, Books, and Temples

Thomas Mark Skallerup - June 1990

Dissertation: Artisans Between Guilds and Cooperatives: A History of Social and Economic Change in Russian Turkestan and Soviet Central Asia, 1865-1928

Alicia Campi - March 1988

Dissertation: The Political Relationship between the U.S. and Outer Mongolia 1915-1927: The Kalgan Consular Records

Ruth Meserve - July 1987

Dissertation: An Historical Perspective of Mongol Horse Training, Care, and Management: Selected Texts

Douglas A. Howard - November 1987

Dissertation: The Ottoman Timar System and its Transformation, 1563-1656

John Thomas Ririe - February 1987

Dissertation: The Effects of Ottoman Expansionism on q Hungarian State Policy, 1365-1526

Michael Drompp - June 1986

Dissertation: The Writings of Li Te-Yü as Sources for the History of T'ang Inner Asian Relations

Devin DeWeese - August 1985

Dissertation: The Kashf Al-Huda of Kamal Ad-Din Husayn Khorezmi: A Fifteenth-Century Sufi Commentary on the Qasidat Al-Burdah in Khorezmian Turkic

William Dinsmoor - June 1985

Dissertation: Mongol Housing: With an Emphasis on Architectural Forms of the Ger

Jiunn-Yih Chang - December 1984

Dissertation: The Relationship Between the Mongol Yuan Dynasty and the Tibetan Sa Skya Sect

William S. Peachy - September 1984

Dissertation: A Year in Selânikî's History: 1593-94

Bruce Lippard - May 1984

Dissertation: The Mongols and Byzantium, 1243-1341

Janet M. Novey - December 1983

Dissertation: Yü Ching, a Northern Sung Statesman, and His Treatise on the Ch'i-Tan Bureaucracy

William Rozycki - October 1983

Dissertation: Mongol Elements in Manchu-Tungus

Elliot H. Sperling - July 1983

Dissertation: Early Ming Policy in Tibet: An Examination of the Proposition that the Early Ming Emperors Implemented a "Divide and Rule" Policy Toward Tibet

Andras Boros-Kazai - December 1982

Dissertation: Populists and Urbanists: Cultural Trends in Hungarian Literature Around the Turn of the Century

Donald E. Bjarnson - November 1982

Dissertation: Teaching Estonian to Americans: A Comparison of Two Methods

Paul A. Draghi - December 1980

Dissertation: A Comparative Study of the Theme of the Conversion of a Hunter in Tibetan, Bhutanese, and Medieval European Sources

Douglas Pauley - June 1980

Dissertation: German Loan Words in Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian

Michael L. Walter - May 1980

Dissertation: The Role of Alchemy and Medicine in Indo-Tibetan Tantrism

Samuel M. Grupper - March 1980

Dissertation: The Manchu Imperial Cult of the Early Ch'ing Dynasty: Texts and Studies of the Tantric Sanctuary of Mahakala at Mukden

David R. Komito - August 1979

Dissertation: A Study of Nagarjuna's 'Sunyata-Saptati-Karika-Nama

Bess Ann Brown - March 1979

Dissertation: The Emancipation of the Peasants of North Hungary in 1848: A Study in Social Reform and Nationalism

Sabri Akural - February 1979

Dissertation: Ziya Gökalp: The Influence of his Thought on Kemalist Reforms

Sang-il Lee - January 1978

Dissertation: An Examination of Studies in Korean Etymology by G. J. Ramstedt

Christopher Beckwith - November 1977

Dissertation: A Study of the Early Medieval Chinese, Latin, and Tibetan Historical Sources on Pre-Imperial Tibet

Thomas Ewing - November 1977

Dissertation: Chinese and Russian Policies in Outer Mongolia, 1911 to 1921

Stephen Halkovic - September 1977

Dissertation: Studies in Oirat Historiography: An Annotated Translation of Xalimaq Xadiyin Tuujiyigi Xuraji Bicigsen Tobci Orosibai

Gary Houston - December 1975

Dissertation: Sources for a History of the Bsam Yas Debate

Larry Clark - August 1975

Dissertation: Introduction to the Uyghur Civil Documents of East Turkestan (13th-14th Centuries)

Laszlo Medyesy - May 1975

Dissertation: The Evolution of the Socialist 'New Man' in Hungary. A Study of Political Socialization of the post-1956 Generation

George L. Penrose - April 1975

Dissertation: The Politics of Genealogy: An Historical Analysis of Abu'l-Gazi's Shejere-I Terakima

Michael Miller - August 1974

Dissertation: The Karamanly-Turkish Texts: The Historical Changes in their Script and Phonology

Juta Kitching - August 1974

Dissertation: Local Status and Case in Estonian and English

Lajos Kazar - August 1974

Dissertation: Uralic-Japanese Linguistic Relations: A Preliminary Investigation

Gisaburo Kiyose - May 1973

Dissertation: A Study of the Jurchen Language and Script in the Hua-I I-Yu, with Special Reference to the Problem of its Decipherment 

Stanley Frye - June 1973

Dissertation: The Sutra of Forty-Two Sections

Ralph Larson - August 1972

Dissertation: A Study of American Influences in the Finnish Trade Union Movement from 1890 to 1920

Larry Moses - June 1972

Dissertation: Lamaism or Leninism: Revolutionary Mongolia Chooses a Faith

David Montgomery - January 1972

Dissertation: Some Characteristics of a Basic Vocabulary for the Soviet Uzbek Literary Language

Charles VanTuyl - June 1971

Dissertation: An Analysis of Chapter Twenty-Eight of the Hundred Thousand Songs of Mila Raspa, A Buddhist Poet and Saint of Tibet

Charles F. Carlson - June 1971

Dissertation: A Semantic Analysis of Proto-Finno-Ugric

John G. Hangin - June 1970

Dissertation: The Literary Position of Injannasi's Köke Sudur (The Blue Chronicle)

Harold Battersby - June 1969

Dissertation: The Uzbek Novel as a Source of Information Concerning Material Culture

Eleanor Womack – August 2024

Thesis: Kartopia on the Aral: Land and Language in Abdizhamil Nurpeisov's Final Respects

Amantu Aerdabieke – June 2024

Thesis: Taranchi Politics in the Ili Valley during Qing Rule, the Rebellions, and some Locals Sources

Anton Ermakov – May 2024

Thesis: Between Bards, Scholars, and Soviet Writers: Buryat-Mongol Folklore as Soviet Literature

Guosheng Qu – September 2023

Thesis: A Study of the Development of the Images and Characteristics of Azi Dahaka

Nicholas Havens – September 2023

Thesis: Evaluating Early Tibetan Bibliography from a Library Science Perspetive 

Samuel Robertson – July 2023

Thesis: Administrative Change and the Promise of Reform in 'New Uzbekistan'

William Zieburtz – July 2023

Thesis: Archaeoastronomy of the Sasanian Gor-Ordered City

John DiCandeloro – June 2023

Thesis: A Critical Survey of Printed Dictionaries in Georgian (1801-1917) and Tajik (1839-1917)

Benjamin Storsved – May 2023

Thesis: Power and Ideology in the Folklore Archives: Textualizations of Early Soviet Kyrgyz Oral Poetry (191601926), with a Translation of Qan Tögüldü by Orozaq Lepesov

Eduardo Acaron-Padilla – December 2023

Thesis: The Shāhnāmeh’s Alexander Romance and Rashīd al-Dīn’s Oghūznāmeh: A Study of Hybridity and Literary Reception

Dinara Abakirova - January 2022

Thesis: Sovietness of Kyrgyz War Letters

Dallin Day - August 2021

Thesis: The Role and Function of Hungarian Verbal Prefixes: An Overview

Alina Williams - June 2021

Thesis: The Grounds of Rationality: Holy Water and Sacred Science in 21st-Century Hungary

Mustafa Akcu - December 2020

Dissertation: China’s Policies of Transforming Uyghurs: Labor Transfer, Language change, and “Re-Education” Camps

Ismet Herdem - December 2020

Exploiting Instability: Decoding the Nexus of Iranian Hyperactivity and Turkish Hexbollah

Keith Seeley - June 2020

Thesis: Warrior Empress Yingtian’s Rise to Power through Political Ties and Military Reform

Shafiq Mubarak - May 2020

Thesis: Political Settlement and National Reconciliation: The Right Diplomacy for Ending the War in Afghanistan

Can Ayter - November 2019

Thesis: Towards Accounting for L2 Accent: The Case of Turkish Vowel Space

Steven Kitchell - October 2019

Thesis: Red Shi'ism and Revolution

Matthew Hulstine - September 2019

Thesis: Where Persian Ends and Tajik Begins: Sadriddin Ayni and Language Reform in Early Soviet Tajikistan

Brendan Devine - June 2019

Thesis: On the Significance of Titles: Chinese Titles in Mongolian Society from the Fifteenth-Sixteenth Century

Emily Stranger - June 2019

Thesis: Foreign Legions and Fire Ant Warfare: Iran’s Strategy for Middle Eastern Hegemony

Jonathan McClure - May 2019

Thesis: Getting Married in Fitrat's Oila: A Historical Perspective

Ezgi Benli Garcia Guerrerro - May 2019

Thesis: Modern Turkish Alevi Poetry: Symbol of Kemal Atatürk and Secularism

Joseph Shepard - May 2019

Thesis: Reconciling feminism and Islam: otincha Muslim women leaders and the Qur’anic reinterpretation of Asma Barlas and Amina Wadud

Hayley Pangle - May 2019

Thesis: Culturedness in Tajikistan: The Tarbiyat Field of Discourse

Imren Kalyuncu Turner - April 2019

Thesis: Development of the Public Libraries in Turkey

Mustafa Durmaz - December 2018

Thesis: An In-depth Phonological Analysis of Soft in the Şanliurfa Dialect of Turkish: A True Consonant

Zackary Slykhouse - October 2018

Thesis: From the Steppe to Astana: The Development of Kazakh Nationalism

Zong Zhang - July 2018

Thesis: Islam between Northwest China and Central Asia, 1530-1673: A Brief Survey

Julian Kreidl - May 2018

Thesis: Archaisms and Innovations in Pashto Dialects

Nathan Montgomery - August 2017

Thesis: Gathering Pearls of Desert Dew: Sufi Perspectives on the History of Sino-Islam

Marissa Smit - June 2017

Thesis: Exiles and Educators: Turkish-Language Schools and Minority-State Relations in the Muslim Communities of Western Thrace Greece, 1923-1936

Andrew Archey - June 2017

Thesis: Ottoman Coffeehouses and "The Early Modern”

Joseph Cleveland - May 2017

Thesis: Innovated Communities: Ethnography, Geography & The Emergence of the Mongolian Geo-Body

Alyssa Meyer - May 2017

Thesis: Assessing the Impact of Energy Access on Households in Kyrgyzstan: Government Rhetoric Versus Daily Realities

Kenneth Weber - May 2017

Thesis: From the Ashes: Khomeini's 1979 Role in the Transition to the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Bazargan Era

Keely Bakken - December 2016

Thesis: "'Happy is He Who Calls Himself a Turk': Turkish Propagation of Transnational Identity"

Jiyoung Lee - December 2016

Thesis: The Life of the First Karma-Pa, Dus-Gsum Mkhyen-Pa "The Knower of the Three Times" (1110-1193): An Annotated Translation of His Biography from Zla-Ba Chu-Shel-Gyi Phreng-Ba

Michael Krautkraemer - August 2016

Thesis: All the Works and Days of Hands: An Exploration of Trade Manuals from Xinjiang (Risālah) and a Translation

Melisa Frost - August 2016

Thesis: Bacha, the Odious Affix: The Origins and Consequences of Bacha Bazi

Alexander Zakel - July 2016

Thesis: A Comparative Study of Islamic Website in Uzbekistan

An Xing - December 2015

Thesis: A Study of Inter-Sectional Relations: An Analysis of “Us” and “Them” in Two Mongol-han Joint Schools

Elliott Newton - August 2015

Thesis: Captivity & Conversion: An In-depth Study of Soviet POWS in Afghanistan

Jessica Storey-Nagy - July 2015

Thesis: Contemporary Hungarian Politics and the Voice that Moves the Nation

Amanda Lanzillo - July 2015

Thesis: Persian-language Education and Printing in Awadh and the North-Western Provinces: The Role of the Naval Kishore Press, 1858-1900 CE

Joshua Carney - July 2015

Thesis: Nostalgia for the Present: Struggle for the Contemporary Ottoman in Magnificent Century (Muhteşem Yüzyıl)

Kenneth Linden - May 2015

Thesis: Representations and Memory of the Collectivization Campaigns in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1929-1960

Heya Na - February 2015

Thesis: Young Mongol Intellectuals during the Manchukuo Era: A Case Study on Erdenitoγtaqu's Early Literature 1931-1945

Jacoba Wells - December 2014

Thesis: Identity Construction and the Iranian Revolution

Zeynep Elbasan - June 2014

Thesis: A Multidimensional Understanding of the Relation between the Poet and the Patron: A Critical Reading of Ta_licali Yahyabey’s Elegy

Aziza Shanazarova - February 2014

Thesis: Laziz Azizzoda and his Turkistanning Uyghanish Tarikhi

Christopher Bond - November 2013

Thesis: The Innate Criminality of a Kazak Writer-Dissident: The Life and Work of Khazhyghumar Shabdanuly

Colin Legerton - September 2013

Thesis: Zordun Sabir’s “Dolan Youths”: A Translation with Commentary

James Quill - September 2013

Thesis: Directing the Past: Soviet Historiography on the Uyghurs During the Sino- Soviet Split

Christopher Sorensen - July 2013

Thesis: Monopolizing Resources and Managing Elites: Avoiding Ethnic Violence in Post-Soviet Central Asia

John Seitz - June 2013

Thesis: Irrigation and Agriculture in the Khanate of Khiva 1768-1914

Sean Singer - May 2013

Thesis: Clock Towers, Blended Modernity, and the Emergence of Ottoman Time

Cody Behles - May 2013

Thesis: The Internet as a Tool in Central Asia: Uses and Impacts

David Straub - April 2013

Thesis: The Ismailis and Kirghiz of the Upper Amu Darya and Pamirs in Afghanistan:  a Micro-History of Delineating International Borders

Nicholas Kontovas - December 2012

Thesis: Lubunca: The Historical Development of Istanbul's Queer Slang and a Social-Functional Approach to Diachronic Processes in Language

Nora Williams - December 2012

Thesis: Collective Action Participants, Nonparticipants, and Observers: Media Use and Student Involvement on April 7, 2010 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Isaac Scarborough - November 2012

Thesis: Being Soviet in the Soviet Union: Categories of Self-Identification amongst Departed Caucasian Populations in Central Asia

Sara Conrad - August 2012

Thesis: Oral Accounts of the Sa Skya ‘Bag Mo, Past and Present Voices on the Terrifying Witches of Sa Skya

Ross Temple - June 2012

Thesis: Conditioning Environments of Old Tibetan Palatalization

Piper O'Sullivan - May 2012

Thesis: Pride and Propaganda: Analysis of Modern Pashto Poetry in Translation, Mid-20th Century to Present

Meghan White - February 2012

Thesis: Shadows of the Civil War:  Perceptions of Democracy in Tajikistan

Jeffrey Eden - January 2012

Thesis: The Survival of “Survivals”:  The History of an Idea East and West

Ulan Bigozhin - August 2011

Thesis: Russian and Kazakh Perceptions of Islam in the Dala Walaytining Gazeti

Michael Hancock - August 2011

Thesis: Historiography of the Bare-footed Flight

Kathryn Ottaway - May 2011

Thesis: Environmentalism in Tibet

Evan Muchmore - April 2011

Thesis: Kazakhstan and the World Bank: Analyzing the Syr Darya Control and Northern Aral Sea Project

Stephanie Kelly - December 2010

Thesis: Millatlar and Maktablar: Uzbeks and Education Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic

Brian Phillips - December 2010

Thesis: Beyond Kinship: The Evolution of Elite Patronage Relationships in Kazakhstan

Roberta Charpentier - November 2010

Thesis: Factors Affecting the Successful Implementation of Script Reform: The Case of Mongolia

Kevin Meskill - November 2010

Thesis: The Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Ihtisab Institution: Enhancing Revenue and the Moral Economy of the Market

Kathryn Johnston - September 2010

Thesis: The Politics of Wayward Women in Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh

Daniel Beben - August 2010

Thesis: The Isma ‘Ilis in the Great Game

Jennifer Dubeansky - August 2010

Thesis: The Writing of Pre-Isamic Bactria: A Review of the Scholarship

Jennifer Johnson - May 2010

Thesis: The Pazukhin Embassy: A Look at the Political Portrayal of Power between Seventeenth-Century Russia and the Uzbek Khanates

Alice Seddon - December 2009

Thesis: The Writing of General Lu: Religion and Rule in Khalkha Mongolia at the Turn of the 20th Century

Rosa Trainham - December 2009

Thesis: Aspects of Allegory in the Story of Âsik Garip and Sah Senem

Rebecca Susan Gordan - December 2009

Thesis: Measuring the Effectiveness of Squatter Groups in Bishkek, Kyrgyztan

Joseph Lombardo - June 2009

Thesis: Ottoman Historiography at Odds: The Timar and Çiftlik Systems

Gordon Rice - May 2009

Thesis: Script Reform in Uzbekistan and The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, 1920-2088

Aaron Platt - May 2009

Thesis: The Use and Success of Microfinance in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan with Finca as an Example

Mary-Kathryn Oreovicz - May 2009

Thesis: A Speech to Tibet’s Representatives at the Fifth Meeting of the Sixth NPC Seeking Approval on Discussions

Kamel Ricay Hefley - May 2009

Thesis: Foreign Direct Investment in Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and the Creation of a Positive Investment Climate

Udaanjargal Chuluunbaatar - May 2009

Thesis: Köke Teüke

Colm Gallagher - May 2009

Thesis: Tobacco in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Jackson Kellogg - May 2009

Thesis: Adbulla Qodiriy's Novel O'tgan Kunlar in its Historical Context

Chad Garcia - March 2009

Thesis: Partners or Pawns? Baishing Communities and Their Role in Frontier Relations during the Reign of Altan Khan

Jampa Choephell - December 2008

Thesis: The Sino-Tibetan Impasse: A Key Document from the Early Negotiations between the Tibetan Government-in-Exile and China

Emilia Bristow - December 2008

Thesis: Mongolia’s Champions: The MPRP’s Path to Victory in Mongolia’s Democratic Revolution

Miki Morita - December 2008

Thesis: Study of the Function of Ksitigarbha and the Ten Kings in the Eleventh-Century Xizhou Uighurs’ Conversion to Buddhism

Christina Stigliani - December 2008

Thesis: Survivors on Screen: Veterans of the ‘Sacred Defense’ in Iranian Cinema

Yasemin Gencer - December 2008

Thesis: Ibrahim Müteferrika and the Age of the Printed Manuscript

Kimberly Zapfel - August 2008

Thesis: Land Reform in Kazakhstan: The Impact of Government Policies on Reform Outcomes

David Knighting - August 2008

Thesis: Ivan Khokhlov: Russian Envoy to the Court of Imām Qulī Khān

Donald Smith - July 2008

Thesis: Lâle Müldür’s Deers

Christian Larson - May 2008

Thesis: Official Islam in Central Asia: Continuity and Oscillation in the Religio-Political Relationship

Domonic Potorti - May 2008

Thesis: Nationalized Tourism Media in Turkey: The Burden of Self-representation

Kristoffer Rees - May 2008

Thesis: The Role of National Identity in Kyrgyz Politics: Analyzing Kyrgyzstan’s Tulip Revolution

Leland Rogers - March 2008

Thesis: Činggis Qaġan-u Altan Tobči the Golden Summary of Činggis Qaġan Transcription, Translation and Commentary

Andrew Shimunek - August 2007

Thesis: Towards a Reconstruction of the Kitan Language, with Notes on Northern Late Middle Chinese Phonology

Gregory Burris - August 2007

Thesis: Taming the Gray Wolf: Nihal Atsiz, Alparslan Türkes, and the Ideological Transformation of Turkish Ultranationalism

Thomas Bonnenfant - August 2007

Thesis: Injecting-drug use and HIV/AIDS in Tajikistan: are Needle and Syringe Exchange Programs the Answer to Prevention?

Christian Bleuer - July 2007

Thesis: Uzbeks Versus the Center: Mobilization as an Ethnic Minority in the Tajikistan and Afghanistan Civil Wars

George Wood - July 2007

Thesis: The Altai Heroic Poem Katan-koo in its Historical and Cultural Context

Robert Dunbar - May 2007

Thesis: The Quest for Power: Timurid Succession Struggles in Fifteenth Century Islamic Central Asia

Michael Golden - May 2007

Thesis: The Changing Face of Folklore, Trends in Folkloristics in the Second Half of the 20th Century

John Morrisroe - October 2006

Thesis: Post-Soviet Water Management of the Aral Sea Basin

Jane van Tuyl - October 2006

Thesis: Expressions of Jadidism in Contemporary Uzbek Music: A Comparison of the Lyrical Content of Yulduz Usmanova and the Poetry of Abdulhamid S. Cholpan

Christopher Whitsel - August 2006

Thesis: Dimensions of Inequality: Community, Household, and Individual Determinants of Educational Participation in Post-Socialist Tajikistan

Christopher Baker - July 2006

Thesis: Unsettling the Imperial Imagination: Olzhas Suleimenov's Az I Ya

Ryan Eddings - July 2006

Thesis: Blocking Civil Society: Political Obstacles to Building Social Trust in Uzbekistan

Sarah Kendzior - June 2006

Thesis: State Propaganda on Islam in Independent Uzbekistan

Luke Potoski - May 2006

Thesis: The Role of Central Asian Islam in Fostering Conditions for Effective Community-Managed Irrigation Prior to the Russian Conquest, and Potential Role in Current Reform Efforts

Kristie Combs - May 2006

Thesis: A Study of Merit and Power in Tibetan Thangka Painting

Taryn Firkser - April 2006

Thesis: Occidentalizing America: Tibetan Views of the West

Karl Schmidt - April 2006

Thesis: Competing Models of Autocratic Power in Timurid Transoxiana

Don Dines - April 2006

Thesis: Commissars, Khans, and Shaykhs: Russian Expansion East of the Caspian and Land Acquisition for Peasant Resettlement in Iran’s Gurgan Plain, 1907-14

Benjamin Levey - March 2006

Thesis: Education in Xinjiang, 1884-1928

Dustin Trowbridge - August 2005

Thesis: Building a State Language: A Study of Public Administration and Language Policy in Kazakhstan

Dan Orr - July 2005

Thesis: A Western Turkic Tribe in North China: 800 Years of Identity and their Loyalty to the Rulers of North China

Meghan Mackrell - June 2005

Thesis: The Role of Information and Communication Technologies in the Democratization of Estonia

Kristina Dy-Liacco - June 2005

Thesis: The Victorious Karma-pa has come to 'Jang: an Examnination of Naxi Patronage of the Bka'Brgyud-pa in the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

Owen Witesman - May 2005

Thesis: Finland, Alcohol, and the EU: An Analysis of Changing Values and Factors in Finnish Alcohol Regulation

Kadir Cakmak - May 2005

Thesis: Kurdish Case in Turkish Nation Building

Ela Gezen - April 2005

Thesis: Turkish Minority Writing in Germany 1960-Present

Matthew Caples - April 2005

Thesis: Et in Hungaria Ego: Trianon, Revisionism and the Journal Magyar Szemle (1927-1944)

Sean Lambert - May 2004

Thesis: The Unwinnable Peach: The Bourgeois-Democratic Government of Count Mihály Károlyi and the Preservation of Magyar National Unity, November 1, 1918-March 21, 1919.

Tristra Newyear - May 2004

Thesis: An Outline of Recent History, A translation of the Mongolian Author Buyannemekhü's First Play

James Schelble - May 2004

Thesis: (Il)Legitimate Debate: The Jewish Question in Hungary

John McKane - March 2004

Thesis: Ziyorat in Uzbekistan: The Shrine of Sulton

Edward Mandity - August 2003

Thesis: Transcending Transience: The Duality of Fragmentation in the Poetry of Mihály Vörösmarty and Dezső Kosztolányi

Kerry Cosby - June 2003

Thesis: The Uzbek Conceptions of Rebellion and Resistance and their Relation to the Uzbek National Movements

Daniel DelRe - May 2003

Thesis: The impact of East European Socialist-era Economic Interest Groups on Post-socialist Economic Liberalization: A Case Study of Hungary

David Blancuzzi - August 2002

Thesis: Through a Glass Darkly: Stigmatizatin and Stereotyped Imagery in the Representation of Ottoman History in Soviet Russian Popular Histories

Laura Knudsen - December 2001

Thesis: The Historical Present Tense in Modern Hungarian Narratives

Ron Sela - August 2001

Thesis: The Development of Inner Asian Inauguration Ritual

Jay Anderson - June 2001

Thesis: The Government and Party Systems of Hungary (1990-2000)

William Alan Wheeler - December 2000

Thesis: Lords of the Mongolian Taiga: An Ethnohistory of the Dukha Reindeer Herders

Kara Brown - December 2000

Thesis: Learning to Integrate: The Education of Russian-Speakers in Estonia, 1918-2000

Mika Natif - December 2000

Thesis: Patronage of Art and Architecture under the Timurid Dynasty in Central Asia

James Wilde - August 2000

Thesis: A Fenyegeto Veszély: Remény, Szorongás és Valóság Miklós Wesselényi and Nationality Issues in 1830-1848 Hungary

Jennifer Petzen - August 2000

Thesis: Turkish Women Poet-Singers: Negotiation of Gender and Genre

Mariya Niendorf - August 2000

Thesis: Into the Steam, into the Dream: The Finnish Sauna as a Rite of Passage

Marshall Gilbert - June 2000

Thesis: History, Memory and the Future on Display: The Turkestan Exhibition of 1890

Thomas Cooper - May 2000

Thesis: The Borders of Trianon: Blunders and Regrets

Nikolai Sadik-Ogli - May 2000

Thesis: Don’t Shoot Väinämöinen! Dada and Futurism in Finland, 1912-1932

William King - March 2000

Thesis: Central Asia and Eurasian Trade in the Early Medieval Period: Towards an Evaluation of the Silk Road

Dicki Chhoyang - December 1999

Thesis: Tibetan-Medium Higher Education in Qinghai

Charles Bankart - May 1999

Thesis: Making Way for a New Era: The Downfall of the Hungarian Socialist Workers’ Party

James Wilson - December 1998

Thesis: Sine Spe Libertatis: Slavery in Hungary under the House of Árpád

Daniel Prior - December 1998

Thesis: The Semetey of Kenje Kara: A Kirghiz Performance on Phonograph with a partial Musical Score and a Compact Disc of the Phonogram

Angela Messel (Lippen) - September 1998

Thesis: A survey of Turkish Folklore and Folk Medicine as a Preface to Ethnopharmacological Field Work in Turkey

Daniel Watson - September 1998

Thesis: Motherhood, Church and the "Shield of Christendom": The Marian Nationalism of József Cardinal Mindszenty

Lesley Davis - August 1998

Thesis: The Hungarian Looks East: Construction of a National Identity

Hande Birkalan - May 1998

Thesis: Pertev Naili Boratav and his Contributions to Turkish Folklore

Mark Camann - May 1998

Thesis: Uncovering Hungarian Music of the Ancient Past

Lauran Hartley - May 1998

Thesis: A Socio-historical Study of the Kingdom of Sde-Dge (Derge, Kham) in the Late Nineteenth Century: Ris-med views of Alliance and Authority

Ramsey Fendall - April 1998

Thesis: Taranatha’s Dus ‘khor chos ‘byung

Toshiyasu Tsuruhara - March 1998

Thesis: The Script Reform in the Mongolian People’s Republic, 1921-1946

Yilmaz Bingol - January 1998

Thesis: Turkish Language Reform: The Turkish Language Society and Evolution of Language Policy in Turkey

Karl Debreczeny - December 1997

Thesis: Fahai Temple and Tibetan Influence at the Early Ming Court

Eric Lander - August 1997

Thesis: Lha’u-rta-ra thub-bstan bstan-dar’s "Bod zhi-bas bcings-‘grol ‘byung thabs skor-gyi gros-mthun don-tshan bcu-bdun-la mings-rtags bkod-pa’i sngon-rjes-su": A translation and discussion

Thyra Leslie - September 1996

Thesis: The Harmonization of Slavic Loanwords in Old Hungarian

Timothy May - August 1996

Thesis: Chormaqan Noyan: The First Mongol Military Governor in the Middle East

Ruth Deibler - July 1996

Thesis: Literature and Politics: Mohammad Salih and Political Change in Uzbekistan from 1979 to 1995

Libby Hunter - March 1996

Thesis: Political Allegory and Historical Plagiarism

John B. Täht - January 1996

Thesis: Two Officially Acclaimed Estonian Writers of the Soviet Period: Paul Kuusberg and Lilli Promet

Carl Johan Elverskog - December 1995

Thesis: A Critical Edition of the Tibetan Diamond Sutra with a Study of Buddhist Terminology in Four Mongolian Translations

Tomás Joaquín Hulick - December 1995

Thesis: Evidence for Multilingual Communication in Thirteenth-century Eurasia: Interpreters and Translators in Diplomatic Contacts between European Envoys and the Mongols, 1237-55

Halim Kara - October 1995

Thesis: The Political Rehabilitation of Jadid Writers in Uzbekistan in the Glasnost Era and Beyond

Chogkhan Tandhar - August 1995

Thesis: A Passage to Lta mgur a ma ngos ‘dzin, the Song of View, Recognizing the Mother, the Ultimate Reality

Kimberly Hart - July 1995

Thesis: Turkish Workers in Western Europe: Between Racism and Culture

Richard Lowery Cooper - August 1995

Thesis: The Russian Conquest of Central Asia in Soviet Historiography

Jonathan Michael Thurman - May 1995

Thesis: Irrigated Agriculture and Economic Development in the Ferghana Valley under the Qoqand Khanate

William Dirks - May 1995

Thesis: Elements of Qazaq Baqsï Chants

Jason Orrill - December 1994

Thesis: Identity and Ideology in Väinö Linna’s Tuntematon sotilas and Mika Waltari’s sinuhe egyptiläinen

Miyuki Hirayama - November 1994

Thesis: Uzbek Women: Change in Status and Roles under the Soviet Rule

James Murray White - November 1994

Thesis: Nicolae Ceau escu and the Hungarian Minority in Romania: 1965-1989

Zsuzsanna Gulacsi - July 1994

Thesis: Local Material Culture in Uyghur Manichaean Miniatures

Charles Vesei - June 1994

Thesis: The Image of Admiral Horthy in Historiography

Emilio Carril - June 1994

Thesis: Re-examining Trianon: Eduard Beneš and the Determination of the Hungarian-Slovak Frontiers

Geoff H. Childs - October 1993

Thesis: Journey to the Valley (Sbas-yul) of Gnam-sgo Zla-gam: Perspectives on the Tibetan Concept of Himalayan Refuges

Steven Taylor Duke - September 1993

Thesis: Students and Student Life at Tartu University, 1919-1939: A Microcosm of Change in Interwar Estonia

Edit Jakab - August 1993

Thesis: The Syntax of the Mosha Lative Cases in Contrast with their Hungarian Counterparts based on H. Passonen's Text Collections

Alexander Archaro - August 1993

Thesis: Estonian-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1926-1933

William A. Wood - June 1993

Thesis: A Collection of Tarkhan Yarliqs from the Khanate of Khiva

Carolyn Shields - May 1993

Thesis: Lha-Ldan sprul-pa'i gtsug-lag-khan-gi dkar-chag sel-dkar me-lon (The Glass Mirror Register of the Emanted Vihara of Lhasa by the Fifth Dalai Lama Nag-Dbran Blo Bzan Rgya-Mtsho

Gary Bolick - May 1993

Thesis: The Degree of Russian Lexical Influence on Estonian during the Soviet Period in Connection with socio-psychological variables

Lynne Marie Thornton - April 1993

Thesis: Structure and function of the Guild System in Ottoman Istanbul: The Classical Age

David Tyson - March 1993

Thesis: Literacy in Turkistan Prior to Soviet Rule

Drew Morris - August 1992

Thesis: Some Notes on a Document concerning the Tibeto-British conflict of 1888

Allen Frank - March 1992

Thesis: The Traditional religion of the Volga-Turkic peoples

Brian Williams - June 1991

Thesis: The Military Role of the Crimean Khanate in Ottoman Foreign Policy

Christopher P. Atwood - May 1991

Thesis: The Inner Mongolian Revolutionary Party

Jonathan Grant - November 1990

Thesis: The Sword of the Sultan: The Peripheralization of Ottoman War Industries from Selim III to World War I

Kemal Silay - May 1990

Thesis: Ahmedîs Ottoman History

Suha Oguzertem - April 1990

Thesis: Fictions of Narcissism: ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture’ in the stories of Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

John Erickson - August 1989

Thesis: Toward the Directive Case in Orkhon Turkic: A Syntactic Analysis of an Aberrant Morphological Form

Sandra Lynn Bird - August 1989

Thesis: The Development of Modern Health Care in Mongolia

Todd Gibson - May 1989

Thesis: A Sogdian in Tibetan Buddhism, the biao of Sri Singha

Wonsoo Yu - April 1989

Thesis: The Five Hundred Shir-a Daroat Families in Ordos: People in Eternal Mourning for Chinggis Khan

Noureddine Zahmoul - December 1988

Thesis: Etymological grouping of Finnish words participating in the quantitative gradation pp p

Steven Kronenberg - December 1988

Thesis: The Great Sealing Nature of Awareness

Michael L. Rogow - November 1988

Thesis: Land, Bone, Flesh: A Socio-Economic Approach to Polyandry within Traditional Tibetan Social Structure

Karin Beate Hopp - May 1988

Thesis: Studien zur receptian der ungarischen literatur in England March 1945

Shahyar Daneshgar - October 1987

Thesis: Persian Calques in Azeri

Miranda Silic - August 1987

Thesis: Women, Werewolves, and Wantonness

Daniel P. Martin - June 1986

Thesis: Human Body Good Thought (Mi Lus Bsam Legs) and the Revelation of the Secret Bonpo Mother Tantras

Anne Parker - October 1985

Thesis: The Human Geography of Central Tibet: Changing Patterns of Land and Resource Use

Marja Tuulikki Snyder - August 1985

Thesis: An Examination of the Causes of the Early Enfranchisement of Finnish Women

Elizabeth Thompson - May 1985

Thesis: The Establishment of an Inner Asian Christianity: The History of Nestorianism to the 14th Century

Chung-Hsiung Hai - May 1985

Thesis: Prince Palta of the Torguts

Robert Kingsley - July 1984

Thesis: A Morphophonemic and Etymological Grouping of the Modern Standard Finnish Nouns Participating in the tt-t Gradation

Richard Currie - June 1984

Thesis: An Annotated Translation of the Biography of Toghto Temur from the Yuan Shih

William Wiggins - December 1983

Thesis: The Six Editions of Richard Knolles' History of the Turks

Thomas Skallerup - September 1983

Thesis: The Development of a Native Industrial Labor Force in Uzbekistan

Ruth I. Meserve - June 1983

Thesis: The Inhospitable Land of the Barbarian

Carolyn Erdener - November 1982

Thesis: The Village Institutes: A National Strategy for Rural Modernization and Induced Behavioral Change

Theodore Unwin - October 1982

Thesis: Hungarian-Turkish Relations, 16th Century

Gregory Nehler - March 1982

Thesis: The Development of the Poetry of Miklos Radnoti

Daniel Phytila - February 1982

Thesis: Concerning the Antiquity of Finnish Quantitative Gradation

Adrianne L. Mydlowski - August 1982

Thesis: The Image of Women in Modern Mongol Literature

Sakari Jutila - May 1981

Thesis: Finlandization for Finland and the World

Stephen Sego - April 1981

Thesis: Katib Celebi and the Reform of the Ottoman Empire

Nathan Cutler - February 1981

Thesis: The Sutra of Sor-Mo'i Phreng-Ba

Ann Marsh - December 1980

Thesis: U.S.-Turkish Relations, 1890-1969

Michael Thomas - September 1980

Thesis: English-Ottoman Relations: The First Hundred Years

Elliot Sperling - December 1979

Thesis: The Life of the Fifth Karma-Pa: An Annotated Translation of a Tibetan Biography of the Dharmasvamin De-Bzhin Gshegs-Pa

Devin DeWeese - November 1979

Thesis: Wilderness and Barbarian: Favorable Evaluations of the Wilderness and the Wilderness Peoples on Medieval Christian and Islamic Literature

Don Carlton - September 1979

Thesis: Atisha's Vision of Avalokiteshvara

Tom Specht - July 1979

Thesis: The Interaction between the Finnish Metal and Engineering Industry and the Soviet Union

Dan Bader - June 1979

Thesis: The Nationality Question in Central Asia: Socialism as a Solution in one Country

Ilona Janosi - May 1979

Thesis: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: His Early Life in Hungary (1895-1919)

Paul Alexander Draghi - October 1978

Thesis: A Tibetan-Mongol Glossary of Materia Medica in Tibetan Script

John Thomas Ririe - September 1978

Thesis: King Sigismund's Campaign of 1396

Raymond Jean-Harold Jorgeson - August 1978

Thesis: The Background of the Mission of John of Plano Carpini to the Mongols

Michael R. Drompp - June 1978

Thesis: The Runic Turkic Inscriptions as Sources for the History of the Second Türk Empire (A.D. 682-742)

Douglas Pauley - May 1978

Thesis: German Loan Translations in Estonian

Randolph Clark - April 1978

Thesis: Rection: A Contribution to the English-Finnish Contrastive Grammar

Bill Rozycki - March 1978

Thesis: A Comparative Phonology of Dagur and Written Mongol

Julianna Ludanyi - October 1977

Thesis: A Grammatical Analysis of Selected Hungarian Historical Texts

Craig Earl Watson - April 1977

Thesis: An Abridged Biography of dGongs-Pa Rab-Gsal by Chos-Kyi Nyi-ma: A Critical Transcription and Translation

William Samuel Peachy - August 1977

Thesis: Selânkî Mustafa Efendi and his History

Roger Eugene Blaine - August 1977

Thesis: A Survey of Hungarian Language Teaching Materials in English

Carl Robert Erickson - August 1976

Thesis: Frigyes Karinthy: His Search for Objectivity as Reflected in Six Major Works

Kwan-po Tang - May 1976

Thesis: Political History of the Dzungar Khanate in the 17th and 18th Centuries

Kin Bing Wu - May 1976

Thesis: The Founding of the T'o-pa Empire

Donald Einer Bjarnson - May 1976

Thesis: A Phonemic Transcription of Lorozero (Kildin) Lappish

Andras A. Boros-Kazai - October 1975

Thesis: Literary Trends in Hungary During the Hunyadi Era

Mary Boros-Kazai - October 1975

Thesis: Western Travelers to Hungary in the Sixteenth Century

Catheryn A. Stein - September 1975

Thesis: Studies in the Shangs-pa bKa'-rgyud-pa: The Biography of the Wisdom Dakini Niguma and an Excerpt from the Biography of Khyung-po

Keith Richard Westover - May 1975

Thesis: The Library in Finland: History, Development, Types and Organization from the Earliest Times to the Present

Michael L. Walter - March 1975

Thesis: A Treatise on Indo-Tibetan Alchemy

David R. Staats - February 1974

Thesis: Studies on the Mahbubu'l-Qulub of Mir 'Ali Shir Navayi

Mark Logan Davis - September 1974

Thesis: An Investigation of the Pamphlet Entitled 'The Demands of the Malecontents'

Gary W. Houston - May 1974

Thesis: The bSam Yas Debate

Christopher I. Beckwith - May 1974

Thesis: The Biography of the Youth Padma 'Ol 'Bar

Harry A. Jackendorff - January 1974

Thesis: The Secret History of the Mongols: Prolegomena to a Discussion of Mongol Socio-Legal Perspective

Thomas E. Ewing - October 1973

Thesis: The Political and Economic Origins of the Mongolian Revolution: 1911

Adrian A. Niemi - May 1973

Thesis: An Organization of Finnish Fishing Charms

Bruce Lippard - November 1972

Thesis: Excerpts from the Synopsis Historiarum of Ioannes Scylitzes Concerning the Pechenegs: Translations and Commentary

Stephen A. Halkovic - May 1972

Thesis: A Comparative Analysis of Zaya Pandita's Bibliography of Translations

Lajos Kazar - April 1972

Thesis: The Idea of 'Ability' as Expressed in Hungarian and English: A Contrastive Study

Stanley Frye - April 1972

Thesis: The Hundred and Eight Names of Avalokitesvara and Tara (Introduction, Translation, and Commentary)

Bess A. Brown - November 1971

Thesis: The National Communists of Uzbekistan

Marsha E. Penti - June 1971

Thesis: An Analysis of Veijo Meri's Characters

William W. Reese - December 1970

Thesis: Some Notes on the Khoy Dialect of Persian Azerbaijani

Larry Vernon Clark - November 1970

Thesis: Utilizing Early Turkic Linguistic Sources (Eighteenth Century Chuvash)

Kathryn Zahlout - June 1970

Thesis: Explanations of the Kalevala Poetry Meter: The Role of Music

Andrew W. Marum - April 1970

Thesis: Turkish Politics in Transition: As Study of Turkish Government between August 1908 and February 1909

Charles D. Van Tuyl - March 1970

Thesis: Poems Contained in the Biography of Mila-Raspa, an Early Kargyudpa Buddhist Saint of Tibet

Gizelle T. Beke - January 1970

Thesis: Emperor Joseph II: Tragic Hero of Two Hungarian Historical Dramas

Charles Hartman - December 1969

Thesis: The Sino-Tibetan matrimonial Alliance of 710 A.D.

Barbara M. Heinkele - August 1969

Thesis: They Lived in the Open Fields. The Tatars in Sixteenth Century English Travel Accounts

Michael G. Miller - June 1969

Thesis: Political Trends and the Imam Hatip Schools in Republican Turkey

Thomas Clemo - June 1969

Thesis: Political Liberalization in Turkey

Mikki Reynard - December 1968

Thesis: The English Equivalents of Hungarian Már

G. Larry Penrose - October 1968

Thesis: A Comparison of the Oguz Legends of Abu'l-Gazi and Reshid ad-Din

William I. Pollari - June 1968

Thesis: Juhani Aho's Relationship to and Treatment of Finnish Pietism

Steven E. Hegaard - May 1968

Thesis: Some Expressions Pertaining to Death in the Kok-Turkic Inscriptions

Matti Toivo Salo - June 1967

Thesis: Shamanic Traditions in the Ancient Finnish Poetry

Charles F. Carlson - June 1967

Thesis: Native Hungarian Words of Ob-Ugric and of Older Origin

William A. Yarwood - September 1966

Thesis: An Analysis of A Tardi Helyzet, The Situation in Tard

Liina Keerdoja - September 1966

Thesis: Some Characteristic Differences in the Use of Finnish and Estonian Verbs and Cases

Ralph V. Larson - August 1966

Thesis: Finland's Constitution: Its Development from 1772 to 1919

Larry William Moses - June 1966

Thesis: The Battle of Nomonhan-Khalkin Gol

David C. Montgomery - June 1966

Thesis: Some Lexical Features of the Modern Mongolian News paper Language

Evan B. Ames - June 1966

Thesis: Hungarian-Slovak Relations to Trianon: The Feasibility of Revision

Alan Foster Brown - June 1965

Thesis: A Compilation of Cultural Semantic Nouns in Middle Korean

Laszlo Szimonisz - May 1965

Thesis: An Historical Presentation and Analysis of the Emergence of Seljuk Power